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JoeOtterbein

(7,703 posts)
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 07:24 PM Jan 2022

Revealed: Sean Hannity's Other Desperate Texts About Jan. 6

Daily Beast

“I’m very worried about the next 48 hours,” the Fox News host texted Mark Meadows hours before Trump instigated a violent attack on the Capitol.

Blake Montgomery
Reporter/Editor
Updated Jan. 04, 2022 6:19PM ET / Published Jan. 04, 2022 4:54PM ET

The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot revealed more exasperated texts between Sean Hannity and the Trump White House, imploring the Fox News host to cooperate the ongoing probe.

Hannity enjoyed a close relationship with former President Donald Trump and his final Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. A week before the attack on the Capitol, the Fox News host expressed concerns about Trump’s plans to thwart a congressional certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

“We can’t lose the entire WH counsels office,” Hannity wrote to Meadows on Dec. 31, 2020, the House committee revealed on Tuesday. “I do NOT see January 6 happening the way he is being told. After the 6 th. He should announce will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. Go to Fl and watch Joe mess up daily. Stay engaged. When he speaks people will listen.”

That message, the committee wrote to Hannity, “suggests that you had knowledge of concerns by Trump’s White House Counsel’s Office regarding the legality of the former President’s plans for January 6th.” Such information, the committee’s chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) wrote in their letter to the Fox Host, “are directly relevant to our inquiry.”

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Revealed: Sean Hannity's Other Desperate Texts About Jan. 6 (Original Post) JoeOtterbein Jan 2022 OP
Only in a perfect world would Hannity be Trump's torpedo... allegorical oracle Jan 2022 #1
"We can't lose the entire WH counsels office" EarlG Jan 2022 #2
These Hannity texts are pretty damning LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #3
Yeah, I saw it when you posted it on the.... JoeOtterbein Jan 2022 #5
Twitter replies: Rhiannon12866 Jan 2022 #6
Oooh Dorian Gray Jan 2022 #4

EarlG

(21,998 posts)
2. "We can't lose the entire WH counsels office"
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 07:33 PM
Jan 2022

I wonder if this means lose as in lose their support in general, or lose as in they were going to quit en masse. Either way, there was clearly internal division (probably Giuliani/Lindell/Stone/Flynn et al vs saner WH officials) over Trump's strategy.

It's interesting that these texts show that Hannity clearly knew the game was up, that Trump had lost, and that his strategy to overturn the election was a bad idea. He's giving Trump post-presidency advice here ("announce will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. Go to Fl and watch Joe mess up daily" ).

It says a lot when Hannity is one of the saner voices in the room.

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