The Trump team’s war against Mueller was coordinated closely with allies at Fox News, who eagerly amplified the president’s assaults and initiated their own. Sean Hannity exchanged hundreds of texts with Paul Manafort collaborating on the best way to undercut the special counsel; investigators eventually obtained the texts and released them nine months after Manafort’s sentencing. Hannity made no pretense of journalistic detachment. “I’m in campaign war mode every day,” he wrote Manafort in one text. “We are all on the same team,” he added in another.
