Fox Information host Sean Hannity on Tuesday tried to extract some excellent news from the acquittal of Igor Danchenko in what was Particular Counsel John Durham’s closing case, partially by minimizing his personal previous concentrate on the Steele file researcher.
“Lots of people assume this was a loss for Durham,” Hannity mentioned after a choose discovered Danchenko not responsible on 4 counts of mendacity to the FBI. The work by Durham, the Trump-era prosecutor tasked with probing the FBI’s investigation into the Trump marketing campaign’s hyperlinks to Russia, resulted in zero convictions. In Could, Hillary Clinton marketing campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was additionally acquitted of mendacity to the FBI.
“I by no means actually cared that a lot about Igor Danchenko,” Hannity claimed. “What we realized within the trial is what issues to me extra.”
Hannity, who in Could 2020 fretted that “the good American republic will disintegrate earlier than your eyes” if Durham’s workforce didn’t deliver “justice,” introduced consideration to Danchenko a number of occasions, for example in August 2020 and in November 2021 on Twitter.
On Tuesday, the Fox host insisted that there have been nonetheless unanswered questions.
“Will we ever resolve any of this?” he requested Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) as a chyron labeled Danchenko a “deep state unhealthy actor.” “Are all of those people who signed these FISA warrants crammed with info that they know was not verified—are they ever going to be held accountable, or do we've got the 2 tiered justice system in perpetuity?”
Johnson responded with the wild declare that Danchenko and Sussman had been acquitted “as a result of the jury discovered the FBI was the extra corrupt actor in what they did.”
“We have to resolve this,” demanded Johnson, who alleged throughout a Senate debate towards Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes final week that the FBI set him up in a 2020 assembly.