Trump's Cable Cabinet: New texts reveal the influence of Fox hosts on previous White House

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many Fox News hosts having the direct number to reach Trump in the White House residence.

“There were times the president would come down the next morning and say, ‘Well, Sean thinks we should do this,’ or, ‘Judge Jeanine thinks we should do this,’” said Grisham, referring to Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, both of whom host prime-time Fox News shows.

Grisham — who resigned from the White House amid the Jan. 6 attacks and has since written a book critical of Trump — said West Wing staffers would simply roll their eyes in frustration as they scrambled to respond to the influence of the network’s hosts, who weighed in on everything from personnel to messaging strategy.

Trump’s staff, allies and even adversaries were long accustomed to playing to an “Audience of One” — a commander in chief with a twitchy TiVo finger and obsessed with cable news.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cable-cabinet/2022/01/09/96fac488-6fe6-11ec-b9fc-b394d592a7a6_story.html

[cstanleytech]

1. Sounds like Fox should be investigated by the FEC and maybe the Treasury department.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. The hosts need a grilling and indictments, but the CEOs also need a lawsuit followed by indictments.

Wonder if the DOJ may actually be investigating the entirety of Fox as corporate conspirators.

Citizens United says corporations are people so why not?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

13. Yes, and the DOJ for conspiracy to sedition...the whole corporation and it's tentacles.

[thesquanderer]

2. Some unexpected sanity from Hannity...

on Jan. 10, 2021 — referring to a conversation he had with Trump himself — Hannity texted {Mark} Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally, to try to discuss strategies to rein in Trump...“He can’t mention the election again. Ever. I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I’m not sure what is left to do or say, and I don’t like not knowing if it’s truly understood. Ideas?”

[ShazamIam]

3. I felt like from the beginning the former adm. was being directly advised by the kochnetwork via Fox

I found this link to an interview in 2015; Hannity interviewing Charles Koch.

https://news.kochind.com/news/news-archive/2015/charles-koch-interviews-with-sean-hannity

Edit add:
the actual interview has been removed and only a, does not exist in in the link.
more talks of link, kochs/Fox

from 2014
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-koch-brothers-campaign-afp_n_5548191

and from 2014 when the Republican tea partiers were on radio and television and the internet calling for revolution against Obama.

https://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/15/american-traitors-sean-hannity-koch-brothers-seditious-movement.html

[yaesu]

4. Why is GOPTV allowed to exist, it should be registered as a PAC not a licensed broadcast network. nt

[QED]

6. Fox isn't a broadcast network

It's cable. Different rules

[yaesu]

7. In 1966, the FCC established rules for all cable systems (whether or not served by microwave)

The Supreme Court affirmed the Commission's jurisdiction over cable in United States v. Southwestern Cable Co., 392 U.S. 157 (1968).
Fast forward to today, deregulating poisoned that well but guess what, we have the House & Senate so why haven't we established the FCC as cable watchdog again?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. The rules of hate speech are the same everywhere...maybe not America, ok, where hate speech is ok.

[Natal]

5. The Government Channel

And now, for the past year, the Opposition Channel. Spread those Bananas all through the Republic!

[Evolve Dammit]

8. This was common knowledge. Not really news, but glad it's getting some scrutiny.

[monkeyman1]

9. remember the shadow government day's ! early morning call Hannity for advice for the day ????

executive time till noon on the boob tube ?????

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Fox host did not do any of this without approval from Fox executives...they all in on the coup.

The Fox fascist hosts where the tip of the spear for the fascist media generals.

[monkeyman1]

14. "BULL -SHIIT " !

[Alexander Of Assyria]

15. So true sir, that's pretty much what fascist propaganda like faux do. Very astute.

[monkeyman1]

16. you might be the fascist ? how do I know ?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

17. Caught me!