Sean Hannity Dares Hillary Clinton To Sue Fox News For Defamation

On his Fox News Channel show Thursday night, Sean Hannity dared Hillary Clinton to sue Fox for defamation, responding to remarks Clinton made in a speech to the New York State Democratic Convention. In the speech, Clinton mocked former President Donald Trump, saying “it’s funny, the more trouble Trump gets into, the wilder the charges and conspiracy theories about me seem to get.”

“We must reject the big lie about the 2020 election and the coverup of the insurrection of last Jan. 6,” Clinton said in remarks that were carried live on Fox News. “And we can’t get distracted — whether it’s by the latest culture nonsense, or some new right-wing lie on Fox or Facebook.”

Clinton went on to say that “Fox leads the charge with accusations against me, counting on their audience to fall for it again. And as an aside, they’re getting awfully close to actual malice.”

“Actual malice,” a legal term that’s considered the standard for proving a libel case in court, clearly caught the attention of Hannity, who said “bring it on. Malice? Really? It’s called news. Hillary, we invite you to bring it on.”

Hannity was referring to allegations Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign had “spied on” Donald Trump, a story that has been heavily discussed on Fox News—by one count, Clinton’s name was mentioned on the network nearly 200 times Thursday alone—and a story that has also been debunked by fact-checkers.

Clinton’s speech in New York City Thursday was carried live on Fox News, though the network quickly cut away just as the former Secretary of State shifted gears to conspiracy theories and her targeted remarks about Fox:

I’ve reached out to Fox News for comment.