WH Advisers Have Dubbed Hannity Trump’s ‘Shadow’ Chief Of Staff

Fox News host Sean Hannity is seen in the White House briefing room in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2017. / AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump speaks with Fox News host Sean Hannity several times each week to discuss the news, Hannity’s show, the Russia investigation, and the President’s tweets, among other topics, the Washington Post reported Tuesday night.

Hannity is one of a few Trump confidants who gets patched through to Trump immediately when he calls the White House, according to the Washington Post. Some administration aides refer to Hannity as Trump’s unofficial chief of staff, per the Post.

The constant communication between Hannity and Trump, paired with the revelation that the Fox News host is a client of Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, shows how close the two have become since the campaign.

Hannity was also previously represented by Jay Sekulow, now Trump’s personal attorney in charge of the Russia probe, and by Victoria Toensing, who had been in talks to join Trump’s outside legal team. Hannity’s work with both lawyers actually contributed to Trump’s consideration of them as members of his legal team, the Post reported on Tuesday night.

Read the full Washington Post piece on Hannity here.

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  1. I won’t lie that it would bring me great pleasure to see hannity get wrapped up in the legal issues that are surrounding drump.

  2. Roger Ailes’ dream come true: FOX News has the president’s ear.

    (Putin has his soul, however.)

  3. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    In-kind contribution. Coordinated.

  4. I’m still wrestling with the thought experiment in which Barack Obama and, say, Rachel Maddow, are represented by the same criminal lawyer (by which I mean a lawyer who is most likely a criminal), and in which President Obama speaks with Ms. Maddow “several times per week”, presumably to discuss how to promote the President’s interests in the news.

    The funny (well, not so funny, really) thing is that if this had happened during the Obama administration there would have been an instant shitstorm among Republicans (most certainly) and even Democrats (pretty likely); now, it’s just another standard of decent and principled behavior trampled and left for dead by the current administration.

    I’m not a big fan of James Comey, but there’s one thing he said that was very interesting and with which I probably agree: the American people cannot be let off the hook by an impeachment; the only way they can approach this problem properly is to take responsibility and vote Trump and his cronies out of power.

  5. Well the only way we are going to get a impeachment in the first place is by voting the bums out of congress. Then after that Dems can start investigating all the different drump scandals, but who knows what Mueller will have come out with by the time the election is.

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