3/28/2023

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/MEDIA: “Donald Trump’s long-awaited return to Fox News’s airwaves on Monday night [March 28, 2023] after a months-long absence occasioned an altogether familiar exercise: His longtime ally Sean Hannity helpfully tries to coach him to give the right answers, and Trump utterly fails to oblige. A telling exchange results, but not in the way the host intends.

This time, the subject was the Mar-a-Lago documents search.

In a lengthy interview that often landed on Trump’s legal troubles, Hannity dug in on a big one. He suggested both that Trump wouldn’t deliberately possess the documents and that he didn’t prevent federal authorities from searching for them. In both cases, Trump repeatedly declined to confirm Hannity’s thesis.”

-Aaron Blake, “Sean Hannity’s attempt to coach Trump backfires — again,” washingtonpost.com, March 28, 2023