Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe likely will face criminal charges as the probe into the agency's activities continues, Fox News host Sean Hannity predicted Monday.
"If I had to expect, you're going to see criminal charges against Andrew McCabe, I would also argue that it is going to go a lot deeper," the late night host told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "Look, we have spent as a country almost a year looking into [President Donald] Trump-Russia collusion. Some people have looked into that longer."
Hannity also termed the actions of McCabe and former FBI Director James Comey as the "biggest abuse of power in the history of this country.
"For James Comey, when you have so many crimes that Hillary committed just think about this ... if any of you were trying to prevent congressional oversight, and you broke the law and you put a server we now know was hacked by five or six foreign outside entities, if you put it outside where it was supposed to be, you mishandle with classified, top secret and special access program information, those emails get subpoenaed," he said.
"You don't have the right to delete 33,000 of them at that point. If any of you did, you would be arrested. If you then acid wash your hard drive with Bleachbit, that is also obstruction. If you break them up the devices, that is a crime," Hannity said.
Hannity's appearance came shortly after President Donald Trump promoted his appearance.
About a half hour after the interview concluded, Trump added a further, very concise tweet:
The House Intelligence Committee last week ruled that there was no evidence of collusion, and even its top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, had commented that it "is out there in the public arena because there really wasn't evidence of collusion," said Hannity.
"We do have, sadly at the upper levels of the FBI and Department of Justice, serious issues, crimes that really need to be investigated," said Hannity. "Not the least of which, James Comey very arrogantly this weekend, he tweeted out, soon the American people will see from me, Mr. President, they will get to decide."
Comey, who Trump fired early in the first year of his administration, also will have several questions to answer, said Hannity. Namely, why did he tell Trump in January 2017 at Trump Tower, that a "[Hillary] Clinton bought-and-paid-for Russian dossier" was salacious and not verified, but was still used three months earlier for a Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
"He will have to answer, you know, important questions, OK, did Hillary break the law?" said Hannity. "If you mishandle, you destroy classified information as it relates to the email server, these are really big crimes."
Clinton, he added, deleted subpoenaed emails and "acid-washed hard drives, used a hammer to break up the devices that these emails were on," and those are crimes.
"The question is why didn't James Comey indict her?" Hannity said.
Comey has a book coming out in April, and there will probably be items in an upcoming inspector general's report that will contradict many of his points, said Hannity.
"If I was his lawyer I would say you do have the right to remain silent," he told the program.
Meanwhile, McCabe has "very odd relationships in all of this," he continued, including with "FBI lovebirds" Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who spoke in text messages about an "insurance policy" with a person named "Andy," who was "probably Andy McCabe."
Hannity also pointed out that McCabe's wife obtained $700,000 from former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Democrats for her Senate race, and that McCabe's attorney was Lisa Page.
The Fox host also said that if he was advising Trump, he'd advise him to allow special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling to go forward, as it's probably coming to an end.
"If I had to render a guess, it would be in his best interest probably not to comment," said Hannity. "All the president was saying this never should have been. It never should have happened. The president is 1,000 percent right. There was never any Trump-Russia collusion."
He said he's also concerned about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; it appears that he "renewed one of the FISA warrants based on the phony dossier that they never told the judge Clinton paid for."
However, Hannity said that he does not believe Trump will fire Mueller, even though "he has, in my mind, every right to be frustrated."
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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