READ: Court Unseals Manafort Docs, Revealing Texts With Hannity

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

Court documents previously filed under seal with the government’s sentencing recommendations for Paul Manafort were made public on Friday.

The documents include a months-long text exchange between Manafort and a “Sean” who appears to be Fox News host Sean Hannity.

The texts show Manafort apparently complimenting Hannity on his coverage, with the Fox host telling Manafort to stay strong throughout the early stages of the Mueller investigation.

“I appreciate what you tried to do,” Manafort wrote in one August 2017 message.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/paul-manafort-sean-hannity-texts-court-docs

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Sean is like Bolton and Cheney and W and Rump, demanded war in Nam and refused to fight it

In this little cowards case it was Iraq.

[SkatmanRoth]

2. Sean Hannity un-indited co-conspirator?

[BigmanPigman]

6. Of course he is.

I'd put money on it.

[Grasswire2]

10. I would think so.

He collaborated with Julian Assange, remember, during the wikileaks time.

[OnDoutside]

3. I'm currently reading the Michael Wolff book Siege, and there's

a really excellent chapter about Fox news, the Murdochs and the likes of Hannity, especially his game plan, developed in the expectation that the Murdochs are disgusted by him and will bin him sooner or later. Really good book with perspectives I didn't realize.

[Marcuse]

4. Hannity was Michael Cohen's other client, but apparently was pro bono.

On the day he was named as a Cohen client, Hannity claimed that Cohen never formally represented him in legal matters but acknowledged that he occasionally "had brief discussions with him about legal questions that I wanted his input and perspective on."[link:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sean-hannity-says-michael-cohen-apologized-naming-him-as-a-client-1191378|

[certainot]

5. hannity's says he has 2 mics -- radio and fox. sounds like manafort has been using hannity for years

— while working for russians.

what about limbaugh? manafort was working for russians before and while he worked as mccain’s campaign cochair. limbaugh would not support mccain until minutes after mccain announced palin as VP choice, minutes before the start of the limbaugh show the day before the GOP convention weekend started. palin was being wooed by russian oil and gas interests. was that hiss real job? limbaugh was the guy to have doing that and hannity as second.

stone, credico, and corsi are all rw radio operatives, with stone quoted as using talk radio to stop the recounts in fla in 2000. sam nunberg says he “listened to thousands of hours of talk radio” for team trump in 2014 and trump was getting reports from him. a russian troll says in 2014 they “got a list of topics to write about”.

theres a redacted name in glossary of Mueller Report where 'Hannity' would be - between GRaff and HAwker. he was mentioned 5 times and was supposed to get a listing there - why did they redact the whole name and not just parts of the description like most others? Are talk radio and/or Fox under investigation? it better include radio and limbaugh.

how long has the kremlin been using rw talk radio gods like limbaugh, hannity? are they calling into shows? are they getting them to read emails? they can do that on the local and national scale and reach and target millions of the base.

[UpInArms]

7. Related: Manafort told Sean Hannity in texts he would never give up Trump or Kushner

CNN) Paul Manafort told Sean Hannity that he would never give up information on President Donald Trump or senior White House adviser and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to newly unsealed texts between the two men in 2017 and 2018.

A court unsealed more than 50 pages of texts that show Manafort was scared and defiant and did not think special counsel Robert Mueller would cut a cooperation deal with him because Manafort wouldn't give up Trump or his family.

"They would want me to give up DT or family, esp JK. I would never do that," Manafort texted.

More at https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/21/politics/paul-manafort-texts-sean-hannity-donald-trump-jared-kushner/index.html

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Sure reads like there IS something(s) to give up

in regard to Trump et al.

[padah513]

9. Subpoena Hanitty

He doesn't have immunity.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Get Cohen to tell the details of discussions with Hannity would be a good starting point.

He already detailed Trump details in hearings, so I would think another client would be fair game?

[Botany]

12. Sean is a traitor to America

End of story. Now did Fox just get info and ideas from Russia or did they have
Russians working inside their organization?

BTW didn't Manafort pick Pence to be V.P.?

And didn't Manafort give data analytics to Russia so they could rat fuck our elections?

[JonLP24]

13. Manafort told Sean Hannity in texts he would never give up Trump or Kushner

(CNN) Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would never give up information on President Donald Trump or senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, according to newly unsealed texts between the two men in 2017 and 2018.

A court unsealed more than 50 pages of texts that show Manafort was scared and defiant and did not think special counsel Robert Mueller would cut a cooperation deal with him because Manafort wouldn't give up Trump or his family.

"They would want me to give up DT or family, esp JK. I would never do that," Manafort texted.

Hannity replied, saying, "Understand. There is nothing to give up on DT. What did JK do?"

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/21/politics/paul-manafort-texts-sean-hannity-donald-trump-jared-kushner/index.html