Fox News host Sean Hannity is having a really bad day, and not just because his pal Donald Trump just took a severe blow. Paul Manafort’s cooperation plea deal today with Robert Mueller is about to expose what was really going on between Manafort and Hannity during the election. Suffice it to say that there is specific reason for Hannity to be nervous.
Last year Palmer Report brought you the story of how Sean Hannity revealed on-air that even after Paul Manafort had been booted from the Trump campaign, he had continued to speak privately with Manafort for the remainder of the election cycle. Hannity then specifically revealed that he had spoken with Manafort a week before election day. We’ve since learned that there was a FISA surveillance warrant against Manafort during this time period. When Manafort was ultimately arrested, Hannity sure seemed panicked during his show. We wondered if Hannity was worried that he might have been picked up on the wiretap. Now Mueller has one better.
Paul Manafort’s plea deal spells out that he’s required to cooperate with every matter of interest to the federal government. If Manafort and Sean Hannity were merely discussing election prospects or talking about the weather, then Hannity has nothing to worry about. But if that’s the case, why was Hannity such a wreck about the prospect of Manafort going down? Whatever Hannity and Manafort were secretly chatting about during the last days of the election, Mueller is about to find out all about it. There’s more.
Donald Trump’s former longtime fixer Michael Cohen announced in court earlier this year that Sean Hannity was his legal client. Cohen cut a plea deal last month. While Cohen’s plea deal didn’t specifically include a requirement about cooperation, Vanity Fair confirmed this afternoon that Cohen has in fact been working with Robert Mueller.That means Mueller knows what was really going on between Hannity and Cohen as well. Hannity’s worst nightmare is coming true. http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/sean-hannity-nightmare-worst/12680/
"Paul Manafort’s Flip Is A Disaster For Mike Pence"
THE ELECTION OF Donald Trump has sent shockwaves through the souls of compassionate, humane people across the country and the world. Horror that a candidate who ran on a platform of open bigotry, threats against immigrants and Muslims, and blatant misogyny will soon be president is now sinking in. Trump appointed a white nationalist, Steve Bannon, as chief White House strategist — which was promptly celebrated by the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. Bannon and other possible extremist Trump appointees, such as John Bolton, a neocon who believes the U.S. should “bomb Iran,” and the authoritarian Rudy Giuliani, are now receiving much deserved public scrutiny.
The incoming vice president, Mike Pence, has not elicited the same reaction
George Will Calls ‘Repulsive’ Pence Worse Than Trump
By Ed Kilgore May 10, 2018
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And so Will hurls an anathema at the whole pack of them:
--- Because [Pence’s] is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing …
There will be negligible legislating by the next Congress, so ballots cast this November will be most important as validations or repudiations of the harmonizing voices of Trump, Pence, Arpaio and the like. Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic. Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying. ---
Now even more than in 2016, when Will never even came close to coming to the aid of his party, the columnist is self-isolated in openly encouraging Democratic votes in November. But his contempt for Pence nonetheless signifies that if the whole Trump political enterprise comes to grief, the vice-president no longer has the reputation for independence that could make him the politician to pick up the pieces. He’s worked very hard to become Trump’s most loyal acolyte. He cannot survive the destruction of his boss’s cult.
As Donald Trump faces rising dangers, 12 religion questions for understudy Mike Pence
Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner, Opinion contributors 3:15 a.m. ET Sept. 13, 2018 | Updated 4:16 p.m. ET Sept. 13, 2018 Trump Pence Smile
With President Donald Trump engulfed by scandal, the odds that Vice President Mike Pence will succeed him grow stronger every day. Pious where the president is profane and calm where he is chaotic, Pence is Trump’s temperamental opposite, which many find reassuring. However, his record suggests his presidency would be more divisive — on policy grounds — than the one America endures today.
During 30 years in public life, Pence established that he holds controversial views that he is willing to turn into policy. He is anti-science when it comes to evolution but he has left the impression with many that, against all medical evidence, he believes homosexuality is a disorderand can be cured. He tried to legalize discrimination against gay people in Indiana and wants a nationwide ban on elective abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or to save a woman's life.
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