Sean Hannity’s fawning interview designed to rehabilitate Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was just not enough Trump shilling for Hannity last night. So he brought on two of his pals and the three of them mocked reporter Michelle Fields who had accused Lewandowski of battery.
Once again, Hannity ignored the considerable amount of evidence against Lewandowski. He also again ignored the pile of evidence against Lewandowski’s character (that just happens to be consistent with manhandling a female reporter). Hannity’s two like-minded guests did as well, though one, Monica Crowley, did call Fields “a good girl” and noted that she had bruises on her arm where she said Lewandowski had manhandled her.
“I didn’t see anything,” Hannity reiterated, feigning objectivity. Then he “asked” his other guest, attorney Peter Johnson, Jr., “Why do you think she [Fields] dug in?” Then he asked Johnson if Fields would have a case for defamation, as she has threatened.
No, Johnson apparently thought. He suggested that Lewandowski was the real victim here. “There might be something called a case for malicious prosecution,” Lewandowski could make, presumably against Fields.
That was bad enough. But then Hannity ridiculed Fields by saying, “Monica touched me inadvertently in the Green Room earlier and I’m gonna make charges.”
“That sounds naughty, Sean,” Crowley said, laughing.
She later said, “The reality is, when you’re covering a campaign and most of us have been in these situations, it’s chaos!”
Johnson cracked the same joke moments afterward. “And Monica grabbed my arm before and I’ve been injured!” He grabbed his arm in mock pain.
“See, she grabbed me, too. You can represent both of us!” Hannity added.
“This country has such huge problems that I cannot believe we are still talking about this,” Crowley said. As if Fox wouldn’t be making this its top campaign story all day long if a Hillary Clinton staffer had roughhoused a Fox reporter the way Lewandowski did Fields.
Then the group moved on to slobber over Trump’s speech that night.
Watch this latest reason why conservatives think Hannity is a Trump shill below, from the April 14 Hannity.