Sean Hannity is impressed by his producer's attempt to overturn Georgia's presidential election results

Written by John Whitehouse

Research contributions from James Reddick & Katherine Abughazaleh

Published

On December 30, 2020, three purported “experts” told a Georgia Senate Judicial Subcommittee that they had evidence proving that more than 30,000 votes cast for President Donald Trump were removed from his total. More than 12,000 of those, they claimed, were given to Joe Biden. The claims received widespread attention on January 2, 2021, when they were amplified by far-right The Epoch Times and its affiliated NTD YouTube channel. The following day, The Gateway Pundit amplified the claims as well. There have been multiple recounts in Georgia, including by hand of paper receipts, and claims such as this have been widely rejected; Joe Biden's win in the state has been certified.

As The Epoch Times noted, the “experts” in question were a team led by Lynda McLaughlin. The Epoch Times failed to mention that she is Sean Hannity's radio producer.

McLaughlin did not mention Hannity in introducing herself while beginning her presentation, saying only that she had a background in “politics and media.”

Returning to the air on January 4 following a holiday break, Hannity himself talked up this data as supposed proof that the election was stolen.

Sean Hannity cites group his producer is working with as evidence of voter fraud

picture of Hannity with soundwaves in the background

From the January 4, 2020, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): On December 30th, there is this really incredible group. Lynda McLaughlin works with them, our own Lynda, Data Integrity Group, they actually gave Senate testimony on December 30th about Georgia for example, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections. Let's see, the people you have involved in this seem pretty impressive to me. You've got one guy is a data scientist with over a decade experience in a lot of industries, what we have here is fraud that we can prove in this election and then I begin to look at the background and the people, one is a nine-year veteran of the US Navy, worked as an electronic warfare technicians, cryptologic technician whatever the hell that is, Arabic linguist, worked at the NSA as a mission manager, later worked as a CIA contractor at the Counter-terrorism Center. And I'm like, "wow."

Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States at noon on January 20th, per the Constitution.