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Hannity Erupts and Accuses the NYT of Being Obsessed with Trump and ‘Stalking’ Him

All of us in the media get long pleas to stop giving Trump so much coverage, we’re told to ignore him and let him suffer in misery, he will go away.

Ignoring him would absolutely be the thing except for two critical concerns. First, and most obviously, he still controls McConnell and McCarthy. We are not sure “how” he controls them, he just “does.” Second, new details emerge daily about abuses that occurred in his administration and the American public cannot protect itself from future threats, or punish those from the past, if we don’t know of them.

The New York Times seems to understand this all too well, especially reporters like Maggie Haberman, who continues to investigate Trump. This seems entirely appropriate given that the DOJ and Congress have only now had a chance to begin to assess the Trump term abuses. Moreover, it is not just “Trump” that everyone is investigating and watching. Tucker Carlson is laughably attacking the FBI as being responsible for the uprising on January 6th, which makes one immediately worry that Tucker knows the FBI is getting very close to real power in the White House and Congress, such that Tucker wants the MAGA viewers to think that anything the FBI does in the future is done to protect itself.

Given that Tucker seems to be handling the FBI, one wonders if Sean Hannity is now covering the New York Times and in a soon to come devastating or explosive report? These are no longer fringe conspiracy theories, these are now concerns addressed by Frank Figliuzzi, former Assistant Deputy Director of the FBI and head of counterintelligence. Additionally, we just read this morning that Trump asked the DOJ and FEC to go after Saturday Night Live in 2018. If Trump knew of threats coming down the road, wouldn’t he order his lackeys on Fox to do all they could to protect him?

It certainly appears so. Sean Hannity went off in a crazed rant about the “stalkers” at the New York Times, and Haberman in particular:

Yes, there is so much irony in Sean Hannity complaining about media “misleading viewers.” But a scary fraction of Hannity’s viewers have already proven themselves to be ready to act out, or at best, disbelieve, the credible charges against the Trump administration, whether they be made by law enforcement or in the media.

We need to all lament and understand why none of this is “over,” some of it is just beginning.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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