Sean Hannity Gives a Fanatical Primer to Russia Probe Witnesses on How to Destroy Evidence

Fox News personality, Sean Hannity’s devotion to President Donald Trump could only be described as “fanatical,” at this point. It has lapsed beyond even what we see from the most ardent cult followers.

To be clear, Sean Hannity enjoys a broad platform, with both a radio and TV audience. He’s also no novice. He’s been doing both for long enough that you have to assume what he does while on the job is done with a sure purpose. He’s not just gabbing along. He has an agenda.

On Wednesday night’s broadcast, it was the normally agitated, overwrought Hannity – a condition he’s maintained from the very beginning of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. His opening monologue zeroed in, with the usual frothing rage on news that special counsel Robert Mueller is now requesting the cell phones of potential witnesses in the ongoing probe.

Hannity hit peak crazy, and from what we’ve seen from him over the past couple of years, that’s no small feat.

As half suggestion, half instruction, he told witnesses they should not only not comply with Mueller’s request, but they should destroy their phones, in defiance.

In an opening monologue on the Mueller “witch hunt,” the Fox News host noted investigators in the probe are “demanding that witnesses turn in their phones.”

“He wants the phones turned over,” Hannity said. “Even texts that are on what are called encrypted apps, like Whatsapp or Signal.”

He then referenced the case of Hillary Clinton and her secret servers.

Anyone who followed that absolute travesty of justice knows the incredible lengths she went to, in order to keep whatever was on those servers from being discovered.

It was an egregious act of corruption, and absolute proof of guilt, but she never had to face the music, beyond the hearings into her behavior, so I get why people are upset and felt somebody should “lock her up.”

I get it, but don’t expect it to come from Donald Trump. Immediately following his election win, he blew off calls to have her investigation reopened, or to “lock her up,” saying she was a good person and had been through enough.

Trump and the Clintons have been friends for some time.

Still, if you know someone got away with murder, you don’t then go out and commit a murder, yourself, and think the law no longer applies to anyone.

Hannity raged on.

“Maybe Mueller’s witnesses, I don’t know, if I advised them to follow Hillary Clinton’s lead,” Hannity opined. “Delete all your emails, and then acid wash the emails and hard drives on your phones, then take your phones and bash them with a hammer into little itsy bitsy pieces, use BleachBit, remove the sim cards.”

“And then take the pieces and hand it over to Robert Mueller and say, ‘Hillary Rodham Clinton, this is equal justice under the law,’” he added.

“How do you think that would work out for everybody who Mueller’s demanding their phones of tonight?” Hannity asked. “I’m certain the result would not be the same as Hillary’s.”

There was a time when Sean Hannity was at least, a likeable, seemingly sincere character.

There was never a time when he was particularly smart. Everything he is and all he knows is quite shallow, so take this as a warning, if you’re one of those witnesses he is speaking to.

The results would likely not be the same as Hillary’s because there’s no Barack Obama to run interference. There’s no dirty, scandal-ridden attorney general, like Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch.

I’m saying this, assuming that Jeff Sessions would not be meeting anyone on an airport tarmac, privately, at some point.

I get that there are some out there this morning attempting to reason away Hannity’s stunt by saying he was just pointing out how Hillary Clinton handled the same sort of request. That’s not what he did. He spoke directly to the witnesses and told them to follow Clinton’s lead.

We also have to keep in mind that Hannity has been, apparently, communicating with WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange – named by U.S. intelligence as an agent of the Kremlin. It shouldn’t surprise anyone if it turns out Mueller is watching these histrionics with some interest. Will Hannity be destroying his own phone, too?

And we know Fox News’ stance, having served as Trump’s campaign headquarters since the middle of the last primary season, but at some point, even they have to object to their network being used as a vehicle to instruct witnesses as to how to break the law.