Many of the network's top hosts served as a “Cable Cabinet of unofficial advisers,” reports the Washington Post.
In some cases, the influence was much more direct. Trump would even dial Hannity and Lou Dobbs into Oval Office staff meetings, a former senior administration official tells the Post. “A lot of it was PR—what he should be saying and how he should be saying it; he should be going harder against wearing masks or whatever,” Grisham said. “And they all have different opinions, too.”
The influence the Fox News personalities enjoyed in the White House had already become clear when the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot revealed that Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, and Hannity all. “Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” Ingraham wrote. And it wasn’t just on the day. Texts released by the committee show Hannity continued to give the White House advice after the riot.
It wasn’t just the hosts themselves who were influential, but also the people they chose to put on their shows. Advisers quickly started realizing that appearing on a Fox News show that Trump liked immediately gave the guest credibility. “It taught me the power of the young producers at Fox, and Fox Business especially,” Michael Pillsbury, an informal Trump adviser, said.
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