Sean Hannity Gave Trump's Team A Playbook On How To Handle Insurrection

Newly revealed text messages from Fox News host Sean Hannity have revealed how deeply involved he was in crafting the White House's response to the Capitol Riots. On January 7th last year, Hannity sent over a 5-point playbook on how the Trump team could respond to the crisis, with the first point being that they should stop saying the election was stolen. Obviously that didn't happen, but to have a media figure acting as an outside adviser is highly unethical, as Farron Cousins explains.

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According to a new filing from the January 6th select committee this week, Sean Hannity was involved in directly crafting or at least trying to advise the white house on how to craft a response to the January 6th capital riot. Last year, this new information was revealed via text messages that Sean Hannity had sent to Kaylee Mackin nanny. And it was revealed in the January 6th. Committee's request to have Ivanka Trump come and sit down for an interview in early February. Now we'll get more to the Ivanka stuff, uh, in a segment coming up this weekend. And I wanna talk about Sean Hannity and his five point plan on how the administration should in fact respond to the capital riots. These text messages were sent the day after the riots happened. So on January 7th, Sean Hannity sends this little memo over to Kaylee Mackin nanny. And here are just some of the points that were revealed no more stolen election talk.

That was item number one, by the way, on Sean Han's wish list for the administration in crafting their response. second item warned, quote, impeachment and 25th amendment are real and many people will it, you know what, every now and then, you know, blind squirrel finds the nut. And that's exactly what Sean Hannity did there 25th amendment talk. We know that there were several members of Donald Trump's cabinet that had discussed this impeachment talk. Well, he got impeach for it. So that was real and it had not begun yet. So Hannity was correct about that. And of course people will quit and yes, there was a mass Exodus. People were trying to run to the exits as quickly as possible from the Trump white house, following the January 6th capital riot. So Hey, good for Sean Hannity finally being right about something. Hell right. About three things.

So good for you there. Then you went on and said, um, no more crazy people that that's the exact quote, no more crazy people to which Kaylee MC and nanny said yes, 100%. And the committee, of course, in the request to Ivanka said that there, she started learning more about the crazy people influencing Donald Trump. And to be honest, I think we'd all like to know a little more about these so-called crazy people. Sean, Hannity's labeled not ours, by the way that were talking to Donald Trump might this mean Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, who constitutes crazy in Sean Han's book. Furthermore, how crazy do you have to be for Sean Hannity to look at you and be like that person's a whacko I don't know about you, but that, that means a lot coming from somebody who also fits that description, but the no election talk no more stolen election talk, which was point number one, they clearly didn't listen to that.

And that has, of course become the number one talking point for Donald Trump and anyone who wants to remain on Donald Trump's good side, no more crazy people. Yeah. That didn't happen. In fact, the crazy people seem to have taken over at this point, but isn't it again, some kind of ethical like breach for Sean Hannity, a Fox news personality, not a journalist, but a personality to be act as an outside advisor, giving the white house direction on how to respond to a crisis. Shouldn't we care about that a little bit more shouldn't we be concerned about the facts that Fox news was directing policy for this administration, not just on January 7th, but throughout the entire administration. As we were also recently discussed, I mean, this is nuts. Fox news was running the country BA basically Sean Hannity was running disaster response for this administration. It is full blown propaganda. There's no other way to slice it with that network. And I'm sorry, but I kind of feel, feel like that kind of ethical betrayal of the American people. I think that deserves a deeper investigation.