Fox News host Sean Hannity unleashed on a New York Times columnist this week after she accused him of being responsible for a man’s death.

New York Times Columnist Ginia Bellafante wrote:

On March 1, Joe Joyce and his wife, Jane, set sail for Spain on a cruise, flying first to Florida. His adult children — Kevin, Eddie and Kristen Mider — suggested that the impending doom of the coronavirus made this a bad idea. Joe Joyce was 74, a nonsmoker, healthy; four years after he opened his bar he stopped drinking completely. He didn’t see the problem.

“He watched Fox, and believed it was under control,’’ Kristen told me.

Early in March Sean Hannity went on air proclaiming that he didn’t like the way that the American people were getting scared “unnecessarily.’’ He saw it all, he said, “as like, let’s bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.”

On Hannity’s Monday program he responded to the accusation:

“First, we just witnessed more blatant malicious deception, smears lies, besmirchment from the mob and the media,” Hannity said.

“Gina Bellfante, pretty much all but accused yours truly of murder,” he continued.

Hannity extended his heart and sympathy to Mr. Joyce’s friends and family.

Hannity also accused the New York Times of slander and said, “In order to smear yours truly, they literally –this woman– exploited a man’s tragic death, she willingly, maliciously, purposefully took something I said completely out of context and as proven by all my past statements that the New York Times was very well aware of.”

Hannity further explained that the comments they took out of context where from 8 days after Mr. Joyce began his cruise and that a real newspaper would admit they were wrong and issue an apology and correction. Instead, they did a stealth edit.

Lastly, Hannity called Ginia Bellfante a “hack” and that she works for the same people that lied about Russia, impeachment, Ukraine, and Kavanaugh.

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