The phone calls between President Trump and Sean Hannity come early in the morning or late at night, after the Fox News host goes off the air. They discuss ideas for Hannity’s show, Trump’s frustration with the ongoing special counsel probe and even, at times, what the president should tweet, according to people familiar with the conversations. When he’s off the phone, Trump is known to cite Hannity when he talks with White House advisers.
The revelation this week that the two men share an attorney is just the latest sign of how Hannity is intertwined with Trump’s world — an increasingly powerful confidant who offers the media-driven president a sympathetic ear and shared grievances. The conservative commentator is so close to Trump that some White House aides have dubbed him the unofficial chief of staff.
This portrait of the interactions between the president and the talk-show host is based on interviews with more than a dozen friends, advisers and associates of the two men, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
For a president who feels, intensely, that he is under siege, Hannity offers what he prizes: loyalty and a mass audience. And Trump, in turn, has directed his supporters to Hannity’s show — urging people on Twitter last week to watch the commentator attack special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who heads the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
Their bond intensified during the 2016 campaign and has grown stronger during Trump’s time in office.
“The bottom line is, during the heat of the campaign when relationships are forged, he was always there, offering good advice, in person and on television,” former deputy Trump campaign manager David Bossie said of Hannity. “The president sees him as an incredibly smart and articulate spokesman for the agenda.”
"Incredibly smart?" Sure, okay.
The article goes on to say that Trump and Hannity talk several times a week, and that Hannity even helps him with his tweets. (Well that explains a lot.)
In fact it is almost as if Hannity has a desk in the White House.
Shit, more like he has his toothbrush in the master bathroom.
Essentially Trump and Hannity are engaging in the Right Wing cable television version of phone sex.
"Oh Donald you are so masterful, and your hands seem gigantic over the phone."
"Oh Sean you are so creepily flattering, and I love how you carefully manipulate me into saying and tweeting crazy things that are damaging our country. I can't quit you."
I really think that this was Roger Ailes' fantasy all along.
To have Fox News take over the running of this country, and lead it to the glorious conservative dystopia that dominated his masturbatory fever dreams.
Too bad he did not live long enough to see it.
And hopefully WE will live long enough to see it all come crashing down around Donald Trump's ears.
Okay, now there's a mental image that could make me break out the Pepto.
ReplyDeleteAnti intellectual and amoral equals. The choice of millions of dolts. Blech!
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be a viewer warning before his show: I am the propaganda mouthpiece for trump.
ReplyDeleteAgain, both trump and hannity are demonstrating there lack of ethics.
O/T - I hope they extract the most they can from Alex Jones for his despicable lies. The man is a pustulant.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/19/desperate-trump-tries-to-make-mueller-go-away-by-hiring-rudy-giuliani-as-his-lawyer.html
ReplyDeleteMueller is investigating the russian interference in our election, trump has turned it around and made it all about him.
DeleteWhy can't the moronic republicans understand this.
So maybe Giuliani will need an attorney, I heard Cohen only has three clients :)
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The Hammer Is About To Fall As DOJ To Release Report On NY FBI Leaking Clinton Email Info To Giuliani
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/19/doj-report-on-clinton-emails-to-address-report-that-ny-fbi-leaked-info-to-trump-adviser-rudy-giuliani.html
Why does anyone need more than one lawyer at any stage in their lives? I can see a family law lawyer for visitation/child support for the duration of a settlement. I have used a tax ;aw/business lawyer on a sporadic basis. I can even see these 2 slugs needing an entertainment lawyer.
ReplyDeletebUT "FIXERS" LIKE Cohen SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE A LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW.
Trump has more than one lawyer because the Republicans are paying his legal fees.
DeleteOnce a crook always a crook.
OT Iluvthis!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/19/here-is-a-picture-of-the-first-baby-ever-on-the-senate-floor.html
'.@SenDuckworth, holding baby Maile, departs the Senate floor after casting her vote. How does it feel? “It’s amazing, and it’s about time.”
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'In a statement provided to PolitcusUSA on Wednesday night, Duckworth thanked her colleagues for bringing the Senate into the 21st Century, “I would like to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, particularly those in leadership and on the Rules Committee, for helping bring the Senate into the 21st Century by recognizing that sometimes new parents also have responsibilities at work. By ensuring that no Senator will be prevented from performing their constitutional responsibilities simply because they have a young child, the Senate is leading by example and sending the important message that working parents everywhere deserve family-friendly workplace policies. These policies aren’t just a women’s issue, they are a common-sense economic issue.”'
I always thought the escalator going down was a poor choice:)
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There are four very clear paths to the end of the Trump presidency
.....This is what Trump faces every single day he remains in office. The Mueller investigation isn’t going away. Even if he fires Mueller, the convictions and indictments handed down already will stand, and Trump will be unable to end FBI investigations and pending prosecutions by U.S. Attorneys by executive fiat. The control over the FBI and the Justice Department he lusts for just isn’t there. Nor does he have control over courts and judges for whom he has often expressed contempt.
History books have always talked about men being “elevated” to the presidency, but when descended that escalator in Trump Tower in 2015, he dragged us into his pit of scandal, disgrace and criminality when he assumed office. But the end game is coming. Squint your eyes and tell me if you don’t see an escalator out there ahead of us. It’s going up.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/four-clear-paths-end-trump-presidency/
https://www.salon.com/2018/04/18/is-this-the-endgame-stage-for-trump-or-just-a-trainwreck/
ReplyDelete"It has been reported that Mueller’s prosecutors are working on indictments of the Russian intelligence agents who hacked into the emails of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair Leon Podesta. At the time he allegedly traveled to Prague, Cohen had only one client: Donald Trump. So Mueller is investigating a direct connection during the campaign between Trump, through his lawyer, with Russians close to Putin. The evidence he is gathering is evidence of collusion, and the evidence leads straight to Trump."
"History books have always talked about men being “elevated” to the presidency, but when descended that escalator in Trump Tower in 2015, he dragged us into his pit of scandal, disgrace and criminality when he assumed office. But the end game is coming. "
What a liar, he is not attending for security reasons, as though there aren't at least two former presidents attending. I bet the Bush family told him to stay home !!
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President Trump to Skip Barbara Bush's Funeral for Mar a Lago, 'Out of Respect for the Bush Family' Says White House
..The White House said Thursday that Trump would not attend “to avoid disruptions due to added security, and out of respect for the Bush Family and friends attending the service.”....
http://time.com/5247600/president-trump-to-skip-barbara-bushs-funeral-for-mar-a-lago-out-of-respect-for-the-bush-family-says-white-house/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=time.com&utm_campaign=ideal-media-internal-recirculation&utm_term=68739&utm_content=1
Trump knows the Bush family cannot stand his fat ass! I'm thankful the Trumps won't be in attendance.
DeleteI think Presidents Obama and Clinton (and wives) will be in attendance.
B.O.>"That’s the guy we voted for. That’s the guy who really did think hope and change was possible, not just a slogan
ReplyDelete(and Crom knows we could use some). That’s the guy who never seemed to find anything hokey about appealing to community, and to our better angels. Here is how he ends his brief essay, and it’s just perfect for these amazing kids, their cause, and the guy who’s writing it, starting with the big idea, and closing with who will make the big idea real:
Our history is defined by the youthful push to make America more just, more compassionate, more equal under the law. This generation — of Parkland, of Dreamers, of Black Lives Matter — embraces that duty. If they make their elders uncomfortable, that’s how it should be. Our kids now show us what we’ve told them America is all about, even if we haven’t always believed it ourselves: that our future isn’t written for us, but by us." CRUZ>
"rump is doing what he was elected to do: disrupt the status quo. That scares the heck out of those who have controlled Washington for decades, but for millions of Americans, their confusion is great fun to watch.
"there’s Newt Gingrich, who apparently thought he’d been asked to write a blurb for the back of Hannity’s book. We’ll give him this much: He doesn’t belabor the point, which he also does not have.
Sean Hannity has a remarkable impact between three hours of radio and an hour of TV every day. His fans listen to him and learn from him. One of his biggest fans is President Donald Trump, who routinely watches the TV show and talks with Sean as a fellow New Yorker. Hannity played a major role in helping Trump get the nomination and win the general election. Sean is both a principled conservative and a ferocious opponent of the left and the deep state. He has made and is making a difference."
Read more at https://wonkette.com/632842/barack-obama-writes-pants-off-newt-gingrich-and-ted-cruz-by-a-doctor-of-rhetoric#X0fTBrGhL4PXgkjp.99
Wasn't it said awhile back that Lou Dobbs in on speakerphone during Oval Office meetings?
ReplyDeleteMenage a trois.
OT."The tax cut bill for billionaires is not only unpopular but is causing a Rift between AnRyaN and McCONnell"
ReplyDelete"The Republicans’ so-called “signature achievement” of giving huge tax breaks to corporations and the nation’s super rich was forced upon an unwilling American public without any debate or hearings. And now this horrible tax law has crashed and burned — it is not doing what it was supposed to do to help the GO-Pee."
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/19/309852.html
mc$haME!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/mccain/
When Trump goes down in flames (and he WILL go down in flames) he will drag Fox News and every other remora that attaches themselves to him.
ReplyDeleteTrump has so many whisperers in his ear. But Pooty is his bestie.
ReplyDeleteI am presuming they are looking into how many trips Hannity has taken to russia.
ReplyDeleteThose two look well scrubbed and pinkish. That Trump sure is a man's man isn't he. The good old boys club aka the mafia. Russian mafia that is.
ReplyDeleteDoes Hannity have a security clearance? Because you know Trump is talking sensitive government secrets to that asshole. Of course, that means Trump has violated all sorts of laws and broken his oath of office but what else is new? He's done nothing but violate the Constitution, his oath of office and all sorts of rules and regulations. All without impunity or consequences.
ReplyDeleteHannity is going to need a fourth lawyer and it better be a criminal one.