Top Fox hosts lobbied Trump to act on Jan. 6, texts show
NEW YORK » The revelation that Fox News Channel personalities sent text messages to the White
House during the Jan. 6 insurrection is another example of how the network’s stars sought to influence thenpresident Donald Trump instead of simply reporting or commenting on him.
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade all texted advice to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as a mob of pro-donald Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, vice chair of the congressional committee probing the riot.
“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” texted Ingraham, host of “The Ingraham Angle.” “This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”