Sean Hannity said Thursday that former President Barack Obama’s funeral eulogy for the late Congressman John Lewis was a “divisive speech, politically charged and frankly, at times, petty and full of statements not based on truth or reality.”
In his comments, Obama recalled Lewis’s historic efforts as a leader of the civil rights movement while issuing a political call to action.
OBAMA, UNITED BY THE PRESIDENTS OF THE PAST PAST, EULOGIZES JOHN LEWIS
At one point, Obama referenced the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, the Trump administration dispatched federal agents to handle protesters and violent protesters, as well as challenges to vote by mail during this upcoming “urgent” election.
“Today, we are witnessing with our own eyes of police officers kneeling on the neck of black Americans,” Obama said. “George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness how our federal government sends officers to use tear gas and batons against peaceful protesters.”
In response, Hannity reproduced images of protesters attacking law enforcement officers in Portland and Seattle and asked if they were “the so-called peaceful protesters Obama is talking about.”
Obama also said, “We may no longer have to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar to cast a vote, but even as we are sitting here, there are those in power who are doing everything they can to discourage people from vote by closing polling places and targeting minorities and students with restrictive identification laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, including undermining the Postal Service in the run-up to an election that will rely on mail ballots so people don’t get sick. “
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“In an effort to destroy President Trump and his supporters, Obama said many things that are simply inaccurate and not true,” said Hannity.
“Every two years, every four years, Democratic Party, the playbook remains the same. They divide the United States [into] old against young, rich against poor, and he plays the career card. “
