Sean Hannity noted on his Fox News show Thursday night that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly told top House Democrats on Tuesday night that she doesn't favor impeaching President Trump because "I don't want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison." And the nation's highest Democrat calling for a political opponent to be locked up, despite any proven crimes, was beyond the pale for Hannity, one of Trump's biggest boosters.
If a political leader was encouraging or engaging in such behavior — maybe by cheering on chants to that effect at a political rally or major party nominating convention or baselessly accusing law enforcement leaders of the capital crime of treason — it would be "beyond despicable behavior," and "they would literally turn, in many ways, the U.S.A. into a country we would no longer recognize," Hannity said. "That happens in banana republics."
Irony: 1502-June 6, 2019. Requiescat in pace.
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