
To debate his own media scandal, Hannity brought in the opposing forces of Dan Bongino and Geraldo Rivera. Do we believe in privacy in this country? Apparently not.” She’s interested in one thing and one thing only-smearing Trump and purging him from the Party,” said Hannity, who later expressed outrage over his “private text messages being released again publicly. I say the same thing in private that I say to all of you. Hannity did acknowledge his texts to Meadows Tuesday night, but he spent a good portion of his segment lashing out at the “corrupt” House panel for publishing the texts and “smearing” Trump. He is destroying his legacy.” Their private requests differed wildly from their public remarks later that day, in which they claimed that leftist “antifa” agitators were part of the source of the violence. The texts, released on Monday by the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, showed Hannity asking if Trump would “make a statement” requesting that “people…leave the Capitol” and Ingraham stating that “the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. After delaying for a day, Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham finally addressed the text messages they sent to Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, on January 6 imploring the then president to stop his supporters from rioting.
