His dinner with Donnie
Nothing at all sleazy about this, oh no, perfectly normal and appropriate.
President Trump dined at the White House on Wednesday night with Fox News Channel star Sean Hannity, former Fox executive Bill Shine and newly installed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci to discuss overhauling the West Wing staff and his political strategy, a senior White House official said.
The private dinner comes as Trump is contemplating major changes inside his White House, empowering Scaramucci to reimagine his communications strategy.
The president and his new aide solicited advice from Hannity and Shine over a meal in the Blue Room that was described by the senior White House official as social.
Hannity has his head so far up Trump’s ass he can study how the comb-over is done…or as the Post put it,
Hannity hosts one of Fox’s highest-rated programs and is one of cable television’s staunchest Trump boosters. Shine was a longtime lieutenant to the late Roger Ailes, former Fox chairman and chief executive, and served as co-president of Fox News until resigning this spring amid the sexual harassment scandal involving Ailes and ousted anchor Bill O’Reilly.
Hannity works for the sleazy dishonest rabidly right-wing “news” station that helped get Trump elected, and the head of state has him over for din-dins. Hannity fawns on Trump on Fox “News” while telling lies about his critics, and Trump shares the presidential ice cream with him.
All perfectly fine.
And Ailes/Murdoch’s interference with American electoral politics has almost certainly done more damage than Putin has. With McCormick, Hearst, etc. as precedents, the political power of pseudo-news is nothing new, but the concentration of disinformation in so few hands, and the reach of electronic media, is one more factor in bringing the country to this pass.