Just hours after the news broke that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had handed in the report of his probe to Attorney General William Barr, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson blasted the “people on TV” who he said are guilty of lying.
“You have heard that the Mueller report arrived with no further indictments according to a senior DOJ official. That is it. No one else will be indicted in this investigation for collusion or anything else,” Carlson began. “Not a single American citizen has been charged with anything related to Russian collusion.”
According to Mediaite, he then listed those not indicted for collusion, including Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and President Donald Trump.
He then added that many of the people “have had their lives ruined by the Mueller investigation. Some could die in prison. Not one of them colluded with Russia.”
Then he said this: “The people on TV have been lying to you. They will deny it now. They will tell you it was always about Trump’s taxes or some foreign real estate deal or hush money he paid to a girlfriend. That’s a crock. This investigation was always from day one about collusion with Russia. About betraying this country. They told us that for years. And we have the tape.”
For Sean Hannity, the “witch hunt” was finally over. Rachel Maddow considered it the start of something.
The Associated Press reports the diametrically opposed opinion hosts, who vie for the distinction of the most popular in cable news, were the windows through which many Americans digested Friday’s news that special counsel Robert Mueller had concluded a nearly two-year investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election. While his report, or even a summary, has not been released, television news still had hours to fill talking about it.
Fox News Channel’s Hannity, a close Trump ally, focused on reports there will be no additional indictments stemming from Mueller’s probe.
“The left’s favorite conspiracy theory is now dead,” Hannity said. “It is buried, and there was no collusion, no conspiracy, no obstruction. The witch hunt is over and there will be no further charges.”
The accusations against Trump were “what we always said, a hoax, a lie conceived by hate.”
As for MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, she had rushed to a studio in Tennessee where she had spent the day trout fishing.
“Finally, it happened,” she said. “In terms of what that means and what Mueller has found, we know only the smallest little bits. This is the start of something, not the end of something.”
It wasn’t until 16 minutes into her program that she discussed the reports that there will be no new indictments stemming from the probe.
Newsbusters, the media watchdog, reports Friday was a bad day to be analysts, commentators, hosts, and pundits at CNN who had been wanting the First Family’s legal situation to end in criminal charges and for the Trump presidency to end in disgrace.
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz conceded that the lack of further indictments (sealed or unsealed) in relation to the Mueller probe is a “huge victory for the President” and “really good news” for individuals who had been subject to endless media speculation.
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