Sean Hannity mocks criticism of him acting as a Trump administration puppet: “What a shocker”
Hannity: “Sean Hannity wanted Donald Trump to win. … What a shocker.”
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Sean Hannity defends his texts requesting instruction from Mark Meadows
Citation From the April 26, 2022, edition of Premiere Radio's The Sean Hannity Show
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You know, everybody in the media, “Hannity, what's your response to your text messages?" It's everything I say on radio and TV every day. That's my response.
LYNDA MCLAUGHLIN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER): Yeah, no. That was the same thing that happened with Mother Jones, with the other -- with Manafort. It's the same exact thing.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: The funniest thing, yeah. Remember they released -- what -- 1,200 of my text messages. By the way, there is something called privacy, but I guess I should just give up on that simple --
MCLAUGHLIN: Fifty-seven pages, to be clear -- 57 pages.
HANNITY: Anyway, so, yeah, exactly, 57 pages. I remember I'm going to go through it going, “Oh, oh, crap. What did I say?" And then CNN and fake news MSDNC, they all went on the air, and they said, “I can't believe it. This -- this is like one of Hannity's monologues. He really believes -- he really believes this, Adam Schiff." And I'm like by saying that, aren't they kind of exposing themselves as not believing what they say on radio and TV, because I do believe it.
MCLAUGHLIN: Right. Exactly. They just assume everyone's lying.
HANNITY: Sean Hannity wanted Donald Trump to win. There's -- there's a CNN alert for you. What a shocker.
You can't make this stuff up. You know, people, my friends say, “Oh, man. I saw they're attacking you again. Do you care?" And I said, “I didn't see it, nor did anyone else in America see it. So why am I talking about it?"
MCLAUGHLIN: Exactly. Exactly.
HANNITY: I can't make this up.