Kung Fu Hannity is angry and afraid that the New York Times have teamed up with the NSA to surveil his interactions with Trump and unmasked him.
@nytimes Any conversation I have with ANYONE is supposed to be PRIVATE. I have NEVER talked to you. Was I surveilled and unmasked by u/NSA?
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 22, 2017
He’s flipping out because the New York Times is reporting on conversations that he had with Trump, ostensibly from people who overheard them, or talked to Trump or Hannity about them.
@nytimes You colluded with HRC in 2016. It's none of your business who i do or do not talk too. Total fake news speculation about me/@POTUS
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 22, 2017
He says it’s totally fake news, and speculation, and then demands to know if he’s been surveilled about the fake news and total speculation.
The @nytimes has no clue who I talk to as I refuse to EVER TALK TO THEM! @POTUS knows you are FAKE NEWS and I doubt he talks to u either.
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 22, 2017
Right, Trump has never talked to the New York Times. They just made up his interviews and he never mentioned it. Okie-dokie.
What he’s freaking out over is an article about people that Trump goes to for advice. They name Hannity and say what they’ve heard he tells Trump:
Presidents always deploy surrogates to appear on television to spout their talking points, but Mr. Trump has expanded on that by developing relationships with sympathetic media figures like Mr. Hannity who also serve as advisers. Mr. Hannity, the Fox News host, defends Mr. Trump’s most controversial behavior in public, but privately, according to people close to Mr. Trump, he urges the president not to get distracted, and advises him to focus on keeping pledges like repealing the Affordable Care Act.
This is not earth-shattering leaked info. Hannity says this on the air. The New York Times is not releasing the most precious highly classified top secret intelligence that has passed from Hannity to Trump.
But that’s what paranoia does to you.