“Any place in particular we need a push,” Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows on Election Day.
, Fox News said that it was not aware of his participation and that “he will not be doing anything along these lines for the remainder of the election season.”written by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender, though Hannity denied any participation. In his denial, he acknowledged that “the world knows that Sean Hannity supports Donald Trump. But my involvement specifically in the campaign — no, I was not involved that much.
In a December hearing of the Jan. 6 committee, Rep. Liz Cheney read aloud messages sent separately to Meadows by Hannity and fellow Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham. Hannity asked Meadows if Trump could “make a statement” and “ask people to leave the Capitol.” While Hannity received some praise from his usual critics for seemingly taking the Capitol insurrection seriously, he responded by attacking Cheney and arguing that his privacy had been violated. “Why would they release this, except they’re trying to make a point?” Hannity asked on his radio show.
CNN also published Hannity’s Jan. 19 text message to Meadows, in which he shared a link to a video of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , in which he charged that Trump “provoked” the Jan. 6 rioters. “Well this is as bad as this can get,” Hannity wrote.
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