Analysis: Trump’s latest 'coup' table-pounding follows a classic example of the Fox News feedback loop
Television personality Sean Hannity speaks as President Trump listens during a campaign rally Nov. 5, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 26 at 10:15 AM Thursday night offered an interesting example of how Fox News’s opinion side drags the network’s reporting further to the right — and how President Trump uses it to amplify rhetoric targeting his enemies.
Grassley and Johnson note that “[t]he nature of these communications, and the precise purpose of any attempts to ‘develop relationships’ with Trump or Pence transition team staff are not immediately clear.” There’s an important move right at the top: Hannity blends Fox News’s reporting with that of Sara Carter, an independent reporter and frequent guest of Hannity’s who often provides fuel for his various theories. At her site, Carter made the connection to Vice President Pence: His former chief of staff Joshua Pitcock is married to a woman named Katherine who, Carter says, is the “Katie” mentioned by Strzok. It’s not clear, however, that this is the case.
"She lost,” Trump continued, “and now they are trying to infiltrate the administration to — really, it's a coup. It's spying. It’s everything that you can imagine. It’s hard to believe in this country that we would have had that.” He later added: “This wasn't stealing information from an office in the Watergate apartments. This was an attempted coup. And it's inconceive — like a Third World country — and inconceivable.
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