Sean Hannity’s response to Trump’s Chinese bribes shows staggering contempt for his audience – By Matt Gertz (Media Matters) / Jan 5, 2024
Fox News star Sean Hannity is both among former President Donald Trump’s biggest supporters and the primary cheerleader for dubious GOP probes purporting to show corrupt behavior by Democrats. Since Trump himself is a manifestly corrupt con man, sometimes these roles combine in hilarious ways that demonstrate his abject contempt for his viewers. This is one of those times.
Hannity offered a telling hypothetical last month while complaining that the press wasn’t playing along with bogus Republican investigations that attempt to tie President Joe Biden to his son’s foreign business dealings.
“Imagine what the media and how the country and the left in this country would be reacting if Donald Trump and the Trump Organization or the Trump family were making tens of millions of dollars from our top geopolitical foes like China and Russia,” he told his radio listeners. “I can’t imagine the left in this country not going insane, but lo and behold, here we are.”
