Inside the White House, President Trump’s advisors have closely tracked how supportive or negative different Fox hosts have been about his Iran actions
saw Carlson arguing that the very intelligence agencies the president would attack for their role in the Mueller investigation were the ones now counseling him toward war.“It seems like about 20 minutes ago, we were denouncing these very people as ‘the Deep State’ and pledging never to trust them again without verification,” Carlson said. “But now, for some reason, we do see to trust them, implicitly and completely. In fact, we believe whatever they tell us, no matter how outlandish.
“The view on Wednesday is that Tucker was totally supportive of what Trump was doing and Tuesday night we didn’t see any divide between [Carlson and Hannity],” said an administration official. While they acknowledged that Fox opinions on the strikes had reached the president’s ears, aides downplayed the extent to which they moved him. “Why would you give credit to a bunch of TV hosts on that?” asked a second White House official, noting that Trump was in the Situation Room on Tuesday night as Carlson went on air.
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