Fox News’ Sean Hannity is downplaying his role as President Trump’s “shadow” chief of staff.
The Fox News host and a close friend of Trump disputed a New York Times report on Thursday that claimed Trump aides called Hannity, as well as Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs, to get them to support Trump’s decision to sign a bipartisan spending deal on their respective shows.
“Never happened,” Hannity tweeted Thursday.
Never happened #FakeNews https://t.co/u4eU2kSth4
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) February 14, 2019
But that doesn’t explain Hannity’s about-face on the issue. On Monday evening, Hannity declared the deal was “garbage” and threatened to force any Republicans who supported the legislation to explain themselves. By Tuesday evening, Hannity softened, saying he wasn’t as bothered by the deal as other conservatives may be.
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So, you did an about-face all on your own, huh?
Start at 1:03
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c71u97_wLsMIt seems the key point to nail down is whether Hannity got a call (calls) from any Trump aides to get him on board. Even the NYT article is not clear on this and when it gets regurgitated elsewhere as Trump himself calling Hannity then Hannity’s denial could be both truthful (i.e., Trump didn’t call him) and an avoidance of the key action (i.e., WH called Hannity to get his backing).
Never in my life do I remember so many incompetents getting so much attention. Beginning with Trump and all his Fox stooges. They know nothing. Coulter is vicious but not stupid, the rest “make them go away.” Then there’re the Trump aides, including family members, who don’t deserve national attention. Whew 22 more months and they will all go back to their deserved realm of stupidity and incompetence and we won’t hear from them, one hopes.
the headline and the article don’t match. The headline said he denied Trump called him; the article said he denied Trump aides called him. Has he in fact denied that Trump or a family member called him directly? This article doesn’t say!