Fox News host Sean Hannity said he believes Robert Mueller could be charged for crimes related to how he carried out his special counsel investigation.
Hannity, who frequently derides the investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia, made the claim about Mueller, 75, on his radio show Monday afternoon.
The television and radio host noted that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he will invite Mueller to testify before his panel and that the former special counsel was “willing” and “capable” to defend the investigation in a Washington Post op-ed over the weekend.
“Great, since we already know beyond any reasonable doubt that the Mueller investigation now is a complete fraud, and he needs to now defend it,” Hannity added. “And frankly, I could see charges being brought up against him. What did he know, when did he know it on the exculpatory information involved in this case?”
By “exculpatory information,” Hannity appeared to be referring to notes that have been unearthed in the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, which the Justice Department has moved to drop.
Mueller’s opinion piece followed President Trump’s decision on Friday to commute the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, a target of the special counsel investigation.
Stone was convicted of lying to congressional investigators about his alleged attempted outreach to WikiLeaks, obstructing a congressional investigation, and attempting to intimidate a possible congressional witness.
Mueller, in his op-ed, said that Stone “remains a convicted felon, and rightfully so.”
Mueller’s report, released in April 2019, concluded that Russia interfered in 2016 in a “sweeping and systematic fashion” but “did not establish” any criminal conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump campaign. Mueller also laid out 10 instances of possible obstruction of justice, which Democrats saw as a road map for impeachment. Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that Trump hadn’t obstructed justice.
Barr has appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to oversee an inquiry into whether crimes were committed during the Russia investigation, which Democrats have criticized as a partisan effort to discredit Mueller’s work.
