conspiracy laced special about the january 6th insurrection. the two men quit their contracts rather than remain complicit in the disinformation campaign. one of them, jonagoldberg is out with a new piece explaining his departure, laying the blame on fox personalities who privately disparage trump while publicly singing his praises. i know that a huge share of the people you saw on tv praising trump were being dishonest. i don t merely suspect it, i know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on. while some of fox s more prominent opinion hosts are true believers, the duplicity was on display this week when laura ingram and sean hannity were frantically texting mark meadows during the insurrection to get trump to call off the violence even as they defended his conduct on the air. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to
imperative for the entire thing that he lobbied against in the senate. exactly, well, you know, the bipartisan commission had a lot more support in the house, and were generally by republicans than the one that we re seeing with this january 6th committee. what s interesting is his new take as you pointed out. he was against the commission and we understand that this is because he didn t want something coming out during the election where republicans were forced to be responding to trump constantly, but now that this committee is doing the work anyway, he s saying, yes, of course you want to know and we do know that mitch mcconnell was very angry at donald trump after january 6th. and so this is sort of his way of lending grievance with his suggestion he wants to know what s coming out, even if he did not want responsibility for what was going to come out of the commission if senate republicans supported it. mcconnell strikes me. i found the jonagoldberg piece a huge swath of