Fox News' Sean Hannity Thursday defended President Donald Trump's comments that he'd listen to information from foreign governments about his political rivals, saying that Hillary Clinton's actions during the 2016 presidential election were much worse.
"This was the greatest set-up that Donald Trump has ever made," Hannity told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "The media mob, right, they lie to us for two years, conspiracy theories, hoax...listen is what he said, maybe report to FBI. If you're outraged over that how can you not be outraged (that) Hillary Clinton literally empowered a foreign agent who produced a Russian dossier full of Russian lies that was used to infiltrate our electoral process first by influencing the American people."
Clinton, he added, acted in a "nefarious" way, as she "literally funnels money from her campaign and DNC money that she's controlling to a firm, and it shows up as a law expense."
Then, research firm Fusion GPS was hired, and it, in turn, hired British spy Christopher Steele to produce a dossier that was used to investigate former Trump aide Carter Page and others, said Hannity.
"It's far worse, what Hillary Clinton did, and they show no outrage in this fake media environment we live in," argued Hannity. "Trump, if you got outraged over him saying I will listen, maybe him telling the FBI, why don't you get outraged about the woman who paid for Russian lies and used it as a means to destroy Donald Trump and steal the election?"
Hannity further argued that there was nothing wrong with listening, as "you might learn something to share with the FBI, as the president said..sure it's okay. When did talking go wrong?"
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