Informal adviser and top propagandist Sean Hannity spent at least part of his Easter weekend playing golf with known cheater (on the golf course as well as in his marriages) Donald Trump. Updated: Fox host Jeanine Pirro and former Fox top executive Bill Shine also visited with Trump over the weekend.
On Saturday, Trump followed up a round of Easter rage tweeting with a round of golf with one of his favorite hate mongers, Hannity. From the Palm Beach Post:
President Donald Trump poured rocket fuel on a couple of Twitter feuds Saturday morning before spending time at his Trump International Golf Club with Fox News host Sean Hannity, PGA Tour member Dustin Johnson, son Eric Trump and others.
We don’t know if Donald Trump puts Sean Hannity on speakerphone so he can participate in high-level meetings, like colleagues Pete Hegseth and Lou Dobbs. But we do know that Hannity has been advising Trump going back to at least 2016.
We also don’t know if Hannity let Trump cheat at golf.
4/4/18 Update: CNN reports that Pirro and Shine also visited Trump over the weekend. Shine was reportedly "in Trump's sights to replace Hope Hicks as White House communications director but has told the President he isn't interested." Shine, you may recall, was the co-president of Fox until he was ousted after being implicated in several lawsuits as an enabler who helped cover up much of the sexual abuse that occurred at the network.
This Long Island Omen is doing everything he can to stem the loss of seats by the GOP. It’s too late. People have talked to Robert Mueller about certain individuals involved in the Russian collusion scandal. Pie’s plans to attack the Democrats are futile.
Pie’s advice to Trumpy:
1. Talk tough. Focus on immigration.
2. Blame the Democrats on failed immigration policies.
3. Taint the FBI’s reputation and Robert Mueller by creating reasonable doubt in court.
4. Attack certain Democrats up for re-election, and target those running for office. Portray them as weak candidates and unpatriotic, and portray Republicans as patriotic who want to protect and defend the U.S. Try to connect the Democrat candidates to groups or organizations that conservatives view as anti-American.
You are correct, Kevin. Pie’s paw prints are all over this sudden change in character in Trumpy. Pie’s time will come when he has to explain to the American people about his role in this scandal.
John McKee, the thought of going to prison frightens Pie. A felony on his record would mean the end of his broadcasting career, the loss of income, the loss of friends, wife, children, etc. He would be forced to sell his homes and all of its possessions, including his piano and boat. Pie is too much of a coward to do harm to himself. He would leave the U.S. and travel to Ireland to live the rest of his life.
NOTE TO HANNITY
Tick, tock.
I frankly don’t believe we’ve ever had a scenario where angry Right Wing pundits were actively lobbying a sitting President and seeing their worst impulses actually getting purchase. It is because of this that Pence thought he could get away with the vicious racist proposal he tried to inflict regarding DACA. And now we have multiple Far Right agitators pushing a meme about having the US military invade Mexican territory to set up barrier checkpoints on Mexican soil. (Idea being to interdict anyone they can before they actually get their feet to US soil and become eligible for asylum or anything else. Since the laws are clear about asylum seekers’ rights once they are on US soil, the new Right Wing push is to head that off by preventing them from getting that far.) From what I can tell, Pence’s new plan of having the US military send divisions down to the Mexican border isn’t about the wall that won’t be built – it’s about pushing into Mexico in a hostile fashion to make this Right Wing fantasy a reality. If and when this happens, I really hope that Americans are paying attention – particularly the ones in the swing states who didn’t show up in 2016 and left us with this mess for at least the next 2 3/4 years.
Absolute cast iron fact. There WILL be suicides.