Sean Hannity Rails Against ‘Hysteria’ Over Mueller Letter: Why Is This a Story?
Fox News host Sean Hannity accused media outlets of spreading “fake news” Tuesday night for covering the blockbuster news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller complained to the Justice Department about Attorney General William Barr’s depiction of the full report on the findings of the Russia investigation.
During his opening monologue late Tuesday, the pro-Trump host expressed bewilderment at why this previously undisclosed letter by Mueller—revealed on the eve of Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he is expected to be grilled about accusations he misled the public on the Mueller report’s findings—would be newsworthy.
Instead of concentrating on, say, the fact that Mueller told Barr his summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the two-year investigation, creating “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation,” the Fox News star latched onto a Department of Justice spokesperson’s statement claiming that Mueller had merely been upset over a “lack of context.”