Fox News Hosts Ingraham, Hannity Address Jan. 6 Messages To Trump Staff

On their respective news programs, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham finally addressed the messages they respectively sent to former President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., read the text messages aloud during a meeting of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, leading to Hannity and Ingraham addressing the situation.

After a Hannity text to Meadows from Jan. 6, which read “Can [Trump] make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol,” he spoke to viewers on Tuesday night in response, claiming the committee was a partisan witch hunt aimed to prevent Trump from ever running for office again.

Hannity went on to say the committee’s goal was to purge the Republican party of Trump and his supporters, stating he has no faith in it.

He also called for an investigation into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Cheney, as well as the role of the Capitol Police on Jan. 6 and asked why the National Guard was not called sooner. He also wondered why there was no committee or investigation into the riots of 2020 over police brutality and the killing of Black Americans by police across the country.

As for Ingraham, she texted Meadows, saying “Hey Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home ... this is hurting all of us ... he is destroying his legacy.” She also claimed on her show on Jan. 6 that Antifa protesters were among those in the crowd and were the ones instigating the violence.

In her response to the texts on “The Ingraham Angle,” she came after the media and accused them of twisting her words and lying, claiming the left-wing media in the U.S. is out of touch and claimed the attack “was not an insurrection. To say anything different is beyond dishonest and it ignores the facts of that day.”

“So, the real big lie is the expansive narrative of January 6th that these clowns have made the center of their political existence,” Ingraham said on her show Tuesday.

Fox News hosts, including Tucker Carlson in his docuseries, have publicly downplayed the riots or claimed it was a left-wing conspiracy, though proof has not emerged to suggest it. Evidence has suggested that a right-wing conspiracy emerged ahead of Jan. 6 and that the insurrection was potentially pre-planned and involved Trump, his staff and multiple Republican lawmakers.