Trump Paid Hannity $1.5 Million To Make An Ad So Bad It Never Ran

Donald Trump's campaign was so desperate during the final stretch before the election that they actually paid Sean Hannity's group $1.5 million to create an ad for them. But the ad was so terrible that it never ran anywhere, except on Hannity's own program. Hannity denies that he had anything to do with the terrible ad, but receipts don't lie. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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A report by Punchbowl news on Tuesday, says that Sean Hannity helped create an ad for Donald Trump's campaign in the final months of the presidential campaign in 2020. But the ad was so terrible that the only place they were actually willing to run, it was on Hannity's program on Fox news. And the reason they chose to even do that was because as Punchbowl reported, you had all these internal communications trumped, allegedly Trump allegedly loved the ad. Hannity of course, loved the ad and approved it. They said an internal communications. So in order to appease Trump and Hannity and make them think that the ad was running, they actually ran it on Hannity show. So both of them Trump and Hannity would see that the ad is out there and they thought that would be enough to, you know, quiet them down about this $1.5 million ad

Here's

From Punchbowl. Let me read this multiple internal campaign emails referred to the spot, simply as Hannity, another referred to it as the Hannity written spot, POTUS has not yet approved,

But Hannity has read one email hand and

He said, this is our best spot. Yet another campaign aid wrote inside the campaign. The spot was mocked mercilessly, mostly because of the dramatic over the top language and a message that seemed to value

Quantity over quality.

The report notes that Trump loved the ad, but officials in his campaign dislike the fact that it was not only bad, but also the fact that the campaign was bleeding cash at

The time. And it was a waste of resources. So

Again, they paid $1.5 million for this thing to run during

Sean Hannity's program.

Um, Sean Hannity has issued a statement, denied any involvement whatsoever in this, in fact, his statement said, uh, the world knows that Sean Hannity supports Donald Trump. But my involvement specifically in the campaign, no, I was not involved that much. Anybody who said that is full of expletive deleted. Um, okay. You weren't involved in the campaign that much. So you were involved with the campaign. Um, talk about burying the lead here, everybody. I, we know that Donald Trump and Sean Hannity were friends. We know they spoke on the telephone frequently, but if Sean Hannity was actively working with or for the Trump campaign,

I

Think that's something that we need a little more detail about because after all Hannity multi-millionaire, his time is valuable.

A guy who, you

Know, probably well Tyson's for living his words have value. And if you ever provide something of value

To a campaign that's considered an in-kind campaign contribution. And if it exceeds a certain

Amount, you can suddenly find yourself on the wrong side of campaign. Finance

Laws now of Hannity was compensated for his time.

You know, basically acting as an outside advisor, maybe ad writer, if he was actually paid for that. And he reported it in the campaign reported it. Cool. There's actually nothing wrong with that. Except of course, for the ethics of Hannity working for a major news outlet, but also working for a campaign, any other outlet like that? Well, I can't even say any other outlet would fire you. Cause look at Chris Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo. So, you know,

There's that which would probably

Fall under the same guidelines as Chris Cuomo, helping his brother craft defenses to the allegations against him. Wouldn't that also possibly be violated. I mean, what the hell is going on with the media here in the United States? That's the question we need to be asking and not enough people are, that is why people are turning away from

This crap. Maybe not

As much as they should, but really you should. The cable news is trash. I don't care who you're watching. I don't care what you're watching. I don't care where you're watching

It. Cable news is trash. And this story is just another example as to why it is trash.