Hannity promises Trump would 'bomb the hell out of' Iran following downing of US drone
No doubt Trump and him are chatting.
Hannity promises Trump would 'bomb the hell out of' Iran following downing of US drone
By John Bowden - 06/20/19 09:54 PM EDT
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Fox News host Sean Hannity opened his show Thursday with a vow that President Trump would soon declare war on Iran unless Iran's leader take a "small opportunity" for peace.
Hannity said Thursday night that if the "Mullahs [of Iran] are smart enough" they will take a quickly disappearing option to negotiate peace with the U.S. following the destruction of a U.S. surveillance drone overnight Wednesday.
If not, Hannity said, Trump would proceed to "bomb the hell out of" the country.
A Media Matters reporter who first posted the clip online noted that Hannity's warning to Iran came just minutes after his lead-in, Tucker Carlson, praised the president for avoiding calls for war with Iran.
Trump's love for Fox News programming is well-known, and it was reported by the Daily Beast on Wednesday that Carlson has been personally advising Trump on the subject and urging him to resist calls for war from within his administration. Carlson has also publicly criticized Trump's national security adviser John Bolton, who is seen as hawkish on the issue of Iran...................................................
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