Just yesterday, we reported that ex-president Donald Trump rather suddenly decided to cancel the big press conference he had scheduled on the first anniversary of the infamous January 6th Capitol riot, per reporting from the New York Times.
The one-term, twice-impeached, disgraced former guy didn’t give a specific reason for his cancellation — the Times’ Maggie Haberman reported that he promised to discuss what he had planned to say during the press event during his upcoming January 15th rally instead. However, knowing what we know about Donald Trump, it’s not difficult to presume that the former guy’s decision to step away from the spotlight on such a fateful anniversary has a whole lot to do with the rapidly mounting investigation into that said fateful day, as well as Donald Trump’s specific involvement in and lack of response to his supporters’ violent attack.
Now, new reporting on a possible theory from CNN seems to reveal some of the details behind Trump’s mounting stress and his subsequent decision to back out of his anniversary presser — specifically related to what’s being perceived as Fox News host Sean Hannity’s “betrayal” of his close personal friend, former President Trump, after essentially being busting “talking behind his back” in the days leading up to and directly following the infamous Capitol siege.
Yesterday, the January 6th House Select Committee sent a letter to Fox’s Sean Hannity requesting the Right-wing personality’s testimony in their investigation. In the letter, the Committee specifically revealed the existence of numerous text messages that Hannity himself penned to Trump’s then Chief of Staff Mark Meadows before, during, and after the January 6th attack.
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Reports claim that the text messages reveal a desperate Hannity as he attempted to use his personal relationship with Donald Trump to try to reel the ex-president in and convince him to accept his election defeat to Joe Biden.
Speaking during a new segment, CNN’s Jamie Gangel said of Hannity’s text messages, “Whether or not Sean Hannity cooperates with the committee, and I would argue he’s not going to want to, this is very bad news for Donald Trump. When he looks at these texts from his friend Sean Hannity to his former chief of staff Mark Meadows… This is betrayal. These are the people around him talking about him behind his back and talking about that they’re worried about his state of mind, what’s happening, that Sean Hannity is afraid that the White House counsel is just going to walk away and quit. So I think you really have to think about why Donald Trump canceled his press conference for Thursday. It seemed to come right after this news came out.”
The CNN reporter went on to add that the House Select Committee ultimately only revealed just a small handful of Hannity’s texts in their recent letter.
“I’m told there are dozens of texts, and there are exchanges that go back and forth,” Gangel reported. “So I think the strategy for the committee is, look, they want to see whether Sean Hannity will cooperate, but they also want people to understand that the people closest to Donald Trump were worried about what was going to happen, didn’t think it was going well, and… They wanted him to stop talking when it was over, but they couldn’t convince him to do it. They knew it was wrong.”
It seems Trump’s sudden cancelation may have a whole lot to do with his fragile ego.
You can watch the clip of the CNN panel analysis here:
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