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highplainsdem

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Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:30 AM Dec 2018

Trump reportedly unhappy with Mulvaney as CoS. Now his buddy Hannity is purging his Twitter account

Not sure there's a connection, but the timing is interesting. Is Hannity trying to delete accounts he's following, and tweets, that might be especially troublesome if he becomes Chief of Staff?

First, Hannity purget most of his tweets about Michael Cohen, during the period when Trump was still trying to find someone at all credible willing to be his CoS:

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/sean-hannity-deleting-michael-cohen-tweets/


Then Mulvaney was named ACTING CoS, and the same day the video came out where he'd called Trump a "terrible human being" in 2016.

That same day, Hannity suddenly purged thousands of accounts he'd been fosllowing on Twitter:

https://www.thewrap.com/sean-hannity-unfollows-all-but-3-twitter-accounts/


Fox News host Sean Hannity unfollowed all but three Twitter accounts this month, axing more than 7,000 individuals whom he had been following at the beginning of December. Data from the Internet Archives WayBackMachine shows that Hannity began the purge around Dec. 14 and volleyed between six and three accounts in succeeding days before settling on a current count of three.

As of Thursday morning, the three survivors of the purge were, Donald Trump, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett, and channel mainstay and former NRATV host Dan Bongino.

Hannity followed a mysterious unverified, locked account known only as “@mamabitch0000,” until late Thursday morning, but unfollowed the account just minutes after TheWrap inquired about the matter to Fox News Channel public relations.

“One pissed off bitch-Conservative… #JestersArmy #1337,” the @mamabitch0000 account read.

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The move from Hannity suggests a pivot towards a less volatile social media presence that has often included clashs with rivals like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and late-night comedians such as Jimmy Kimmel. The purge suggests a much sleepier timeline on Hannity’s account going forward.
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Trump reportedly unhappy with Mulvaney as CoS. Now his buddy Hannity is purging his Twitter account (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 2018 OP
Fantastic, now his reverse midas touch can rid us of hannity as well. Afromania Dec 2018 #1
Well, that would be one good outcome... highplainsdem Dec 2018 #3
Never forget this about Hannity... Zoonart Dec 2018 #2
KGOP republican wankers: stinky or kinky? Achilleaze Dec 2018 #4
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