"What? Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!..."
Posted on 01/19/2018 3:23:24 AM PST by markomalley
Fox News host Sean Hannity declared that the "witch hunt" against President Trump headed up by special counsel Robert Mueller is "over" in the wake of a memo circulating among lawmakers that reportedly details surveillance abuses by the U.S. government.
In the monologue of his show Thursday night, Hannity said that news of the memo, which has not yet been released publicly, was a major obstacle for Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
"I have a message tonight for the special counsel, Robert Mueller," Hannity said, opening his show. "Your witch hunt is now over. Time to close the doors."
Hannity said Thursday that Fox News' sources point to the alleged abuses committed under the controversial FISA program are "far bigger" than Watergate, the scandal that brought down former President Richard Nixon.
"Our sources are telling us that the abuse of power is far bigger than Watergate," Hannity said. "Remember, Watergate was a third-rate break-in. What we're talking about tonight is the systematic abuse of power, the weaponizing of those powerful tools of intelligence and the shredding of our Fourth Amendment constitutional rights."
Hannity and other Trump supporters have long argued that the Obama administration used FISA warrants to spy on the Trump transition team and the Trump campaign, charges former members of the Obama administration have vehemently denied.
"This is far worse than Watergate. This is an abuse of surveillance and intelligence to win an election. It is a massive abuse of power, and it was all done by just a few people who think and thought they knew better than you about who should be the president of the United States," Hannity said. "It is the biggest national scandal by far in our lifetime."
"The special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his band of Democratic witch hunters never should have been appointed and they need to be disbanded immediately."
Several GOP lawmakers told Fox News earlier Thursday afternoon that the alleged abuses detailed in the four-page memo are "shocking."
“It's troubling. It is shocking,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told Fox News. “Part of me wishes that I didn't read it because I don’t want to believe that those kinds of things could be happening in this country that I call home and love so much.”
The key in all this is Rosenstein. He is the guy that fired Comey with Trumps blessing and hired Mueller. I am not a lawyer, but it appointing Mueller sure seemed like a conflict of interest to me. One of the congressman calling for the memo to be released also called for Rosenstein to be fired. He didn’t say for what. Could it be he was sitting on information that should have closed down the Mueller investigation long ago?
Gitmo bound
I know you never trumpers would rather this witch hunt continue than have the real truth and scandal come out. Your hate for the man is that strong. Wow.
I’ll bet a box of doughnuts Hannity has first hand verbal of that memo.
What are you betting?
Do you see walls on the border or walls closing in?
Your insight is so valuable here.
What did Mueller know and when did he know it?
Mueller gets immunity for his testimony.
Retires with full pention.
Strzok takes the blame. goes to jail for tampering with evidence or simular.
He writes A book and makes millions.
A couple low level dems under Obama go to jail.
After their release they get hired to run Chelsea Clinton 2032 run for President.
Who, or what, wrote this “memo?”
They passed a law against profiting by writing a book about your own crime.
The have laws about illegals,too.
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The FISA court is, was, and always will be a JOKE. It is nothing more than a rubber stamp that approves every single request for “surveillance” (read that: SPYING) on the American People and the political enemies of Washington D.C.
It’s a complete joke that the FISA court somehow protects us from the very Fourth Amendment abuses the FBI has committed hundreds or thousands of times since its inception.
The FISA court itself was nothing more than window dressing as a “protection” against abuse. It’s well past time the curtains were pulled back on this SHAM and those who participated in it held accountable for their crimes.
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Bravo! TY for re-affirming the obvious.
Unfort., the (R)N(C) groupies need the proverbial 2x4 upside its head too; seen too many here support this abortion of Freedom, many under the guise of 9/11+.
Unemployment line——NO !!
They need to face charges for doing plenty of illegal searches outside of their original mission. Also for their own COLLUSION in attacking Trump.
Not a single one of them has a single brain cell that told themselves this was all wrong. Plenty of information has been coming out for months telling them this was a biased & made up story. They didn’t have a shred of integrity.
NO UNEMPLOYMENT. Lose their licenses to practice law if they have ones. Let them drive garbage trucks if they are not in prison.
Of course, I'd love to be wrong. Don't think I am.
OK...but I repeat...Mueller is Not going to stop until everyone near Trump is RUINED and BANKRUPTED from Attorney fees!
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Mueller can not maintain is job for long by rummaging around and digging up dirt that is totally unrelated whatsoever to his primary mission. So far, that is all he’s got, along with process crimes of FBI tripping an interviewee.
Some sources (Q anon, etc.) are saying that the Mueller investigation was cover for the real investigation.
I’m not saying they are true or false. I’m on the fence myself, hoping it’s true but not counting on it.
Just putting it out there for fellow FReepers to consider.
Who will fire him??? Barney Fife Sessions?? CORRUPT ROSENSTEIN?? HA! He’s got Free Range to RUIN ANYONE he wants to!
I agree. Mueller is going to dig-in because he is the tip of the spear of “the resistance”.
The distant drums of CW 2.0 are beating.
"...extra dose of ‘ignore’ pills..."
Mueller isn’t going away. His mission is to do opposition research for the Democrats leading to the November ‘18 elections and try to flip the house. Why else is his entire team Democrat donors? I’d guess he will release his report in October just prior to the election with lots of allegations to pursue Trumph’s impeachment.
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