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Alia Shoaib
Sun, January 9, 2022, 11:20 AM

Several of Fox News's top hosts served as a "Cable Cabinet of unofficial advisers," according to the Washington Post.

In recent weeks, the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack released numerous text messages from various Fox News hosts to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows on the day of the insurrection.

A former senior administration official, who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity, said that the influence extended into the very heart of the president's administration, and Trump would sometimes dial Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs into Oval Office staff meetings.

"A lot of it was PR — what he should be saying and how he should be saying it; he should be going harder against wearing masks or whatever," Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, told The Post. "And they all have different opinions, too."

The January 6 committee revealed that Fox News Hosts Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Brian Kilmeade texted Meadows as the insurrection unfolded, showing the closeness between the cable news network and the White House.

The texts indicated that Hannity had direct knowledge about Trump's strategy for the day of the electoral vote count and had concerns about his plan, the committee said.

Fox News hosts had a direct number to reach Trump and administration officials often posed challenges for West Wing staffers, former administration officials told The Washington Post.

Grisham told The Post how highly the former president valued the opinions of Fox hosts.

"There were times the president would come down the next morning and say, 'Well, Sean [Hannity] thinks we should do this,' or, 'Judge Jeanine [Pirro] thinks we should do this,'" Grisham told the paper.

Grisham told the paper that Fox News hosts weighed in on everything from personnel to messaging strategy.

The Washington Post said that several of Fox News's top hosts served as a "Cable Cabinet of unofficial advisers."

Alyssa Farah, a former White House communications director, told the Post that staffers would "try to get ahead of what advice you thought he was going to be given by these people" because their opinions "could completely change his mind on something."

Farah told the paper that Trump particularly valued the opinions of Lou Dobbs, Hannity, Ingraham, and Pirro.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-dial-fox-news-hosts-182046021.html

liberalhunter Loc: Your mom's house

So..... the leader of the free world can have who he damn well pleases on the phone......... suck it up.

Kevyn

Hitler had Joseph Goebbels, Trump had Fox News.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

And, who at CNN and MSNBC and NBC and CBS and al Jazeera and other leftist cable networks is not directly connected to the WH now? Who at any of these networks is not in there, on line with the red phones, talking policy, and economics and gun control and all the other oppressive, liberty stealing stews they can dream up?

Does anybody really believe that media mouthpieces with polysci degrees rather than journalism degrees are not in direct communication with the WH and government depts and agencies?

Think about it, the media is the audio/video PA system for the entire progressive movement, it is the propaganda machine, so, the media has to be intimately connected to the sinister doings in the halls of government so they can set up the show.

Don't believe me, channel Joseph Goebbels and ask him about the Volksempfaenger VE 301 radio.
It was cheap (76 Reichsmarks) and available, the common worker could afford one. And, everything in the broadcasts had a political objective - “All Germany hears the Führer with the People’s Radio.”

Gatsby

Your pathetic little tirade has absolutely nothing to do with 1/6, or anything else, except your terminal TDS.

Your OCD is very

fullspinzoo

What the Hell is your point??? Your POS prez has a sh*tload of "scum of the earth" to talk to peelozi, Schumer, AOC, Omar and Kemeltow.