{"id":51523,"date":"2021-12-13T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51523"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:38:41","slug":"fox-news-hosts-begged-mark-meadows-to-get-trump-to-stop-the-insurrection-on-january-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51523","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Hosts Begged Mark Meadows to Get Trump to Stop the Insurrection on January 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day there is more evidence of the complicity of Donald Trump and his Confederacy of Traitors who tried to undermine democracy and overturn an election with violence. The latest discoveries are in documents that Trump&#8217;s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, turned over to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-insurrection.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Insurrection\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s the same Mark Meadows who is now refusing to comply with a subpoena and will shortly be referred to the Justice Department on charges of contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The documents that have just come to light are texts messages that were sent to Meadows while the StormTrumpers were assaulting the Capitol. Rep. Liz Cheney read some of those messages into the record during a hearing on the contempt charges against Meadows. And some of what was revealed is going to be awfully difficult for some Fox News hosts to explain away:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to the record multiple Fox News hosts knew the president needed to act immediately. They texted Mr. Meadows and he has turned over those texts. Quote, &#8216;Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy,&#8217; Laura Ingraham wrote. &#8220;Please, get him on TV. Destroying everything you have accomplished,&#8217; Brian Kilmeade texted. Quote, &#8216;Can he make a statement, ask people to leave the Capitol?&#8217; Sean Hannity urged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the violence continued, one of the president&#8217;s sons texted Mr. Meadows, quote, &#8216;He\u2019s got to condemn this shit ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough.&#8217; Donald Trump Jr texted. Meadows responded quote, &#8216;I\u2019m pushing it hard. I agree.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Still, president Trump did not immediately act. Donald Trump Jr texted again, again, and again. urging action by the president. Quote, &#8216;We need an Oval Office address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand,&#8217; end quote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But hours passed without necessary action by the president. These non-privileged texts are further proof of president Trump&#8217;s supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liz Cheney reads texts from Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Donald Trump Jr. urging former President Trump to act while he sat around and did nothing for hours during the insurrection <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jkk7KhxF0s\">pic.twitter.com\/jkk7KhxF0s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1470549199963901953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, these texts unambiguously incriminate Trump for deliberately allowing the deadly insurrection to proceed, and for violating his oath of office to defend the Constitution. But they also incriminate Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, and Brian Kilmeade. While they were obviously aware of what was happening at the Capitol, and the threat that it represented, their actions since then have been to dismiss and downplay what they knew were violent acts of sedition.<\/p>\n<p>In the months that have followed, they have all used their television platforms to lie that the insurrection was nothing more than a protest by peaceful patriots. But it is now abundantly clear that they knew what they were saying were flagrant falsehoods. And they purposefully deceived their viewers in order to advance the coup attempt by Trump. It is no longer possible for them to pretend, as Hannity did last month during an interview with Trump, that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51319\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the insurrectionists were all members of Antifa<\/a><\/strong>. They knew that the rioters were Trump supporters. Obviously Antifa (if it actually existed, which it doesn&#8217;t) wouldn&#8217;t obey any entreaties from Trump to withdraw. Which is why they were pleading with Trump to call them off. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the Foxies exposed their utterly inappropriate relationship with Trump. What business do they have sending messages to the Trump White House with advice on how to respond to an unfolding crisis. And notice that their advice was focused solely on the harm that Trump&#8217;s inaction was doing &#8211; not to members of Congress and other innocent people &#8211; but to their political interests. They were not acting as journalists (which of course, they are not), but as Trump team members and accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting see what sort of lies they tell to try to wash off the stain of their treasonous acts. Because they surely will attempt to dig themselves into even deeper holes. They simply don&#8217;t have the integrity or honor to tell the truth. But these text messages tell the truth for them. And it&#8217;s a pretty good bet that this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51537\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silence from Fox News, and Meadows Responds<\/a><\/strong>: On Monday evening none of the Fox News hosts above whose texts were revealed mentioned them on their programs. Hannity even interviewed Meadows and completely ignored this news. So, as usual, they are keeping their audience ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Meadows told Newsmax that the Committee <em>&#8220;tried to weaponize text messages, selectively leaked them, to put out a narrative, quite frankly, that the president didn&#8217;t act.&#8221;<\/em> In other words, he just attacked the Committee. He had no response to the incriminating substance of the text messages that show conclusively that Trump did not act. What other narrative could there be? Meadows didn&#8217;t offer one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The panicked texts of Fox News hosts on 1\/6 vs. the same Fox News hosts downplaying 1\/6 on air since then <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FRCK9vg46F\">pic.twitter.com\/FRCK9vg46F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1470822349478014986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day there is more evidence of the complicity of Donald Trump and his Confederacy of Traitors who tried to undermine democracy and overturn an election with violence. The latest discoveries are in documents that Trump&#8217;s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, turned over to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection. Yes, that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[870,554,33,1432,43,1448,129],"class_list":["post-51523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-brian-kilmeade","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-insurrection","tag-laura-ingraham","tag-mark-meadows","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/trump-insurrection.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dp1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51537,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51537","url_meta":{"origin":51523,"position":0},"title":"Jen Psaki and Mark Meadows React to Trump Texts, While Fox News Stays Conspicuously Mum","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/14\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been twenty four hours since the disclosure of the chilling texts by Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Brian Kilmeade, to Donald Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows. 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