Hannity tells Mueller: 'Your witch hunt is now over'

The Hill ^ | 1/18/18 | John Bowden

[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.”

[iontheball]

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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We will have to disagree on this one. Mueller's reign will become untenable and discredited very soon after the Horowitz IG report gets out. Obozo/Lynch will regret their July 2015 OLC opinion to place the Justice Intelligence Div off limits to Horowitz. Obviously, this was Obozo’s preparatory work to weaponize the NSA eavesdropping capabilities against his enemies. You have to appreciate how much of a red flag this was to Horowitz. It was like a kid being directed to keep his hands out of the cookie jar.

[sarge83]

Agreed, Mulehead is going no where unless the House memo’s have his name all over them. The memo’s will make any prosecution almost impossible because of the massive corruption at almost all levels of the US government.

[Tucker39]

IIRC....It was Mueller himself who was the courier who carried the U1 documents to Russia and shepherded the deal to closure. The Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund got a Quarter Billion $$$$$ kick back for Hillary’s getting the 9 signed approvals of the deal. Surely good ol’ Bob Mueller got several $Million$ under the table. When does THAT story make the talk shows?