'Are u up?' Texts reveal Paul Manafort had a sympathetic media ally in Sean Hannity
The exchanges — which a federal judge ordered unsealed and placed onto the public court docket — cover a period starting around the FBI’s
Hannity offered Manafort an ear on many more occasions, both to talk in private but also to appear on his primetime program to defend himself. They also frequently discussed what Hannity had just covered on air. Manafort replied several hours later, “Yes. Rough day but yes. Their case is totally BS. Wrong on law and wrong on facts.”
On Nov. 28, 2017, Manafort told Hannity in a text that he was “right on tonight.” He then took aim at Andrew Weissmann, complaining that the lead Mueller prosecutor was “squeezing people to lie about me or be indicted.” Later that month, Manafort appeared blindsided by Gates' decision to flip and cooperate with prosecutors. In a series of messages on Feb. 22, 2018, he told Hannity there was no way Gates would cave.
Other messages from 2018 also suggest little respect for the gag order, with Manafort boasting of passing information to journalists, particularly those hostile to Mueller.
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