Sean Hannity Slammed ‘Lunatic’ Trump Backers As He Did White House Bidding: Texts – By Mary Papenfuss (HuffPost) / April 29, 2022
“I’m fed up with those people,” Hannity texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in post-election messages obtained by CNN.
Fox News host Sean Hannity was taking orders from the White House even as he ranted about the “lunatics” supporting then-President Donald Trump, according to new details in a trove of text messages revealed by CNN.
Hannity and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows exchanged 82 texts from Election Day 2020 up until Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, CNN reported.
The messages were among 2,319 texts Meadows provided last December to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
In some cases, the texts reveal that Hannity functioned as a kind of shadow chief of staff and gave advice to Meadows in the aftermath of the 2020 election. But Meadows also issued specific orders to Hannity to help the Trump administration, morphing Fox News into a kind of state media.
