Ok?
This DOES make sense….
Donald J. Trump never ‘got it’ being President of the United States…
Now we find out that who actually helped him get thru the four years….
The knuckleheads over a the Fox Cable news channel…
Crazy…But…Makes sense…
An American President being tutored by the conservative clown show entertainment news people….
… Text messages — newly released by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection — between Fox News hosts and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, crystallize with new specificity just how tightly Fox News and the White House were entwined during the Trump years, with many of the network’s top hosts serving as a Cable Cabinet of unofficial advisers.
As the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol unfolded, Meadows received texts from Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade, as well as Hannity, according to the newly released communications.
“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” Ingraham wrote. “This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.” Ingraham’s private missives, however, differed starkly from what she said on her show later that evening, when she began whitewashing the violence of the day and claiming the attacks were “antithetical” to the Trump movement…
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A former senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share candid details of private discussions, said Trump would also sometimes dial Hannity and Lou Dobbs — whose Fox Business show was canceled in February — 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,” Grisham said. “And they all have different opinions, too.”
A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Fox News declined to comment.
Michael Pillsbury, an informal Trump adviser, said he realized how powerful Fox News was in Trump’s orbit when the former president began embracing Sidney Powell — an attorney promoting Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud — and other election fabulists after seeing them on Dobbs’s show. Pillsbury added that while it seemed obvious that many of the claims were patently false, Trump was inclined to believe them, in part because he was watching them on TV and had affection for Dobbs in particular….
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From the point of view of the staff, Farah said, the goal was simply to “try to get ahead of what advice you thought he was going to be given by these people” because their unofficial counsel “could completely change his mind on something.”…
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One former top White House official said that the hosts often had more influence with Trump based on what they said on air rather than in their various backchannels to him and his team, in part because the former president was obsessed with the following — and ratings — of their shows….
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Fox shows were so important to the president that White House staffers were determined to get guests booked on them, even forcing staffers to take weekend shifts appearing on Pirro’s show after Pirro complained she couldn’t get a guest — and the former president also called in himself….
image…President Donald Trump greets Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity at a political rally in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in November 2018….Jim Watson/AFP/Getty
This has been known for some time now.
Fox News is to “News” what the WWE is to a legitimate “sport.”
It’s strictly news /entertainment.
Not surprising that an entertainer like Trump would take his cues from such.
Did these cabinet members have confirmation hearings? Do you remember what the vote was?
I know Cruz held up the line over the Russia to Germany pipeline…..
I know a bunch got voted on before the holidays….
I also know the Senate is can’t do much of anything at anytime……
Biden COULD get more if he leaned on Schumer I’d think……
Which is why the piece is in the paper?..
President Joe Biden has the lowest Senate confirmation rate of first-year nominations among the last three presidents, according to a new report from a group that studies presidential transitions.
“In Biden’s first year, the Senate confirmed only 41% of his nominations. While a small number were withdrawn by the president, 118 were ‘returned’ at the end of the Senate’s session — meaning the president would either have to nominate that person again in the next session or nominate someone else,” according to the report from the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan group based in Washington, DC….
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I remember that at the beginning of Bidens term ,James claimed that Republicans would begrudgingly go along with Biden on various nominations and programs because, “Republicans are gonna want stuff.”
Apparently, they don’t want “stuff.”