Fox News host Sean Hannity spent the last night of President Donald Trump in office attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and asked McConnell to be replaced as Republican Senate leader after that the Kentucky senator called on Trump to provoke an insurrectionary crowd.
Speaking from the Senate floor on Tuesday, McConnell assaulted the president and “other powerful people” for inciting Capitol riots, saying the “crowd was fed lies” about the election being “stolen” from Trump through baseless allegations of widespread election fraud. In addition to the president, it appeared that McConnell was sending a direct message to members of his group, especially Messrs. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), who led the effort to block the election of the president. elect Joe Biden. victory.
Hannity, an intimate and Trump adviser, began his program by sharing a White House document listing “1,000 Trump hits,” insisting to his audience that “here are real things, real hits.”
From there, Hannity devoted much of the rest of his initial monologue to throwing himself at McConnell for not being loyal enough to the outgoing president, who currently suffers from low approval ratings for inciting a seditious crowd to assault. the Capitol in order to stop Congress. certifying the choice of Biden.
“Now, soon, minority leader Mitch McConnell and a handful of other long-time Republicans are trying to reassert control of the Republican Party, and his playbook is sadly too predictable,” Hannity murmured. “Instead of picking up the mantle and promoting the president’s America First agenda, they are encouraged by fear, withering away from the pressure of the media crowd, the Liberal Democrats and the big tech companies.”
After claiming once again that the president did nothing to incite the MAGA mafia, he claimed that all Trump did was urge “his followers to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol so that their voices could be heard. “Fox News host realized McConnell and other” Republicans of the establishment “were” thornless “in condemning the president.
“The Republicans in the establishment have no backbone, no principle, no courage, no vision,” he said. “There are too many politicians in DC who are too willing to go on well, behave well and protect the swamp, and that’s why conservatives like me are fed up with these empty promises and your rehearsed speeches and never doing anything. “.
Hannity, who had previously asked Senate Republicans to reject the “madness of dismissal” and not participate in the Senate trial, then called for a new Republican Party leadership.
“We need new leadership in the United States Senate,” he stormed. “You can represent the people of Kentucky. You’re basically proving now that you’re the king of the establishment’s Republicans who, frankly, have always had and still have contempt for President Trump, but more importantly, the 75 million Americans who voted for him. ”
Interestingly, while Hannity mocked the Republican party for not having Trump’s back, he didn’t seem too interested in the potential of an independent Trump-led political party.
“If you go back to 1964, Ronald Reagan delivered a famous speech called‘ The Time to Choose, ’” he said. “He asked the rhetorical question: is it a third party that the Republican party needs? And he concluded that it didn’t. He said we need a second revitalized party without a bull, bold colors and pale cake.”