Text messages published
“He’s ruining everything”: “Fox” presenters are said to have pleaded with Trump when the Capitol was attacked
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham are two of the three celebrity faces from Fox News who are said to have texted Trump’s chief of staff
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In early January, angry Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. Meanwhile, three prominent faces of the conservative broadcaster “Fox” tried in vain to get US President Trump’s hearing.
According to the New York Times, three prominent faces of the conservative US TV station “Fox” tried to influence US President Trump during the storm on the Capitol. This is shown by news read out to the committee of inquiry into the events of January 6, 2021, reports the US newspaper.
Laura Ingraham, presenter of the “Fox” program “The Ingraham Angle”, would have written, for example, Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff of the then US President Donald Trump: “Mark, the President has to tell the people in the Capitol that they are going home That harms us all. It is destroying his legacy. “
Fox presenter Sean Hannity Meadows wrote, “Can he (US President Trump, D. Red.) make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol.”
Messages from prominent “Fox” presenters to Trump
And Brian Kilmeade, one of the hosts on the morning show “Fox & Friends,” wrote Meadows, “Please put him on TV. He’s wrecking everything you’ve done.”
According to the New York Times, the text messages are partly in contrast to what the three have said publicly. Ingraham, for example, reported on “Fox” that “the Antifa” had mingled with the mob to incite the crowd. Hannity sounded similar: “I don’t care whether the radical left or the radical right – I don’t know who they are. They are not people I would support.”
The New York Times also reports that Ingraham and Hannity both sowed doubts about the legitimacy of the US presidential election – including Hannity’s statement: “Our election was, frankly, a disaster.” According to its own information, the newspaper initially received no response to a request to the TV broadcaster.
Tucker Carlson, probably the most prominent “Fox” presenter, also produced a three-part documentary in which it was falsely alleged that the storming of the Capitol was his “false flag” operation to discredit political rights in the USA.
Source:“New York Times” (payment content).