Fox News host Sean Hannity wrote Trump 2020 campaign ad, book claims

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) The Fox News host Sean Hannity was criticised for appearing at a Trump rally in 2018 but according to a new book he was involved again with Trump’s campaign in 2020, helping write an ad that aired on his primetime show.

Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, by Mike Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, will be published in August.

News of its contents, including “some amazingly hilarious revelations” about Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump “and the rest of the Trump posse”, was reported by Punchbowl News.

According to the news site, the ad known to Trump insiders as “the Hannity ad” and “the one Hannity wrote” ran only during Hannity’s show.

An anonymous Trump aide is reported as saying “Hannity said this is our best spot yet” but Bender reports: “Inside the campaign, the spot was mocked mercilessly – mostly because of the dramatic, over-the-top language and a message that seemed to value quantity over quality. ...............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/01/sean-hannity-fox-news-trump-campaign-ad

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. The only thing surprising about that

is that Hannity was capable of writing something.

He seems to be a functional moron who just parrots his lines and reads the script on TV

[Blue Owl]

2. More like excreted that ad than wrote it

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[Leith]

4. So... explain to me why

it's an outrage when a Democratic governor talks to his brother (who is extremely knowledgeable about politics because he is a real journalist on TV) about politics -but- it's okay when a rethug prez uses a known TV propagandist to help with his reelection campaign.

Their hypocrisy stinks more than skunk shit.

[Progressive Jones]

5. Hannity probably volunteered. Big ass kisser with a big ego. nt