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Kash Patel teases major imminent UFO announcement on Hannity's podcast

FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the Trump administration would soon release its UFO and alien-life files.

Patel, who has been facing rumors over questions about his job security, defended President Donald Trump on Hannity's Fox podcast "Hang Out With Sean Hannity" and claimed that the Trump administration was diverting its attention to extraterrestrial life, The Daily Beast reported. He explained the move was "another example" of the president's decision to deliver on his promises all while the administration has faced growing scrutiny around the affordability crisis and Iran war.

“[Trump] stood up an interagency process with the Department of War leading that effort to get out the documentation related to everything that you’re talking about, not just from the FBI, from the IC and everywhere else,” Patel said.

“They’re going to be publicly releasing this information very soon. We are all for it,” Patel added.

Secret Service agent hospitalized after being shot in protective vest at WHCD: report

A law enforcement agent was reportedly hospitalized after being shot by a gunman who stormed the entrance to the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night.

CNN's John Berman reported that the shooter injured a law enforcement agent. Fox News host Sean Hannity also reported that a Secret Service agent was shot while the shooter stormed the entrance.

The shooter has since reportedly been identified as a 30-year-old man from Los Angeles, according to CNN law enforcement analyst John Miller. Law enforcement said they have him in custody.

Sean Hannity recounts how WHCD shooter 'charged' security checkpoint

The shooter who attacked the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday charged a security checkpoint set up near the entrance of the main ballroom, a conservative pundit recounted.

"The shooter charged the magnetometer closest to the front door," conservative pundit Sean Hannity told Fox News shortly after the chaos, which cut the dinner short and led to the evacuation of everyone at the head table, including Trump.

"How did he get up to that point?" Hannity asked. "What we can tell you, was that this was multiple shots at the closest magnetometer closest to the door."

"Everyone is okay," Hannity added. The shooter was in custody, despite earlier reports that he had been killed at the scene.

BREAKING: A shooter CHARGED the magnetometer closed to the front door at the White House Correspondents Dinner and SHOT AT a uniformed Secret Service agent

Secret Service returned fire.

Conflicting reports as to the condition of the shooter. pic.twitter.com/As7bbM8zqB
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 26, 2026

'Nonsense': BBC calls out Fox's Sean Hannity over fake bombing video

Conservative TV presenter Sean Hannity got a correction by the BBC after he shared a purportedly "false" video.

The Fox News host on Saturday posted a video to Meta platforms with the caption, "Fordow is gone," referring to one of the nuclear sites the U.S. struck in Iran.

The clip Hannity posted showed a large explosion, and it was assumed by many commenters that the video depicted Fordow as it was being destroyed.

But senior BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh corrected the TV host.

"Fox News prime time host Sean Hannity has posted this video on Instagram, falsely claiming that it shows US strikes on Fordow tonight," Sardarizadeh wrote on X late on Saturday night. "The video he's posted is actually from December 2024, showing Israeli strikes on a missile base in Tartous, Syria."

Popular liberal commentator Spiro’s Ghost chimed in with, "Sean Hannity posting fake nonsense? Shocked, I tell you."

'Lies': Trump slammed for trading 'nonsense' to cover own admin's failure

USA Today columnist Rex Huppke took on what he called Donald Trump's "lies" that the Los Angeles protests over ICE raids constituted an "insurrection" that needed to be put down by the federalized National Guard.

"Donald Trump, the president who glibly pardoned the men and women convicted in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, wants you to believe the second-largest city in America is in ruins, destroyed by 'insurrectionist mobs,'” Huppke wrote, adding, "That’s nonsense. Trump inhabits an imaginary, dystopian America spun from his opportunistic lies."

Huppke argued that Trump wants his base to believe that "predominantly peaceful protests" over ICE raids on tax-paying immigrants just going to work were "vast and violent."

"After promising to target 'criminals,' Trump’s administration, to make up for the paltry number of actual criminals ICE agents have been able to find and deport, has resorted to going after immigrants waiting for work in Home Depot parking lots," Huppke wrote. "It’s targeting immigrants properly, following the immigration process, posting ICE agents outside courthouses to snatch non-criminals who are seeking a better life."

Last week, Trump aide Stephen Miller reportedly berated ICE officials for not arresting more migrants, and urged them to target Home Depots and 7-Eleven convenience stores.

Miller told Fox News's Sean Hannity that the goal was to arrest 3,000 migrants each day -- up from about 1,000. This raised quota is what's pushing ICE agents to harass hard-working migrants, Huppke argued.

He wrote that the Trump administration's policy is "making a point of hitting a liberal city with a large immigrant population for one reason and one reason alone: Trump wants violence. He wants you to believe there are hordes of murderous immigrants making America dangerous and unlivable."

Read the USA Today opinion column here.

Health dept. head claims getting measles is good thing: 'Gives you lifetime of protection'

Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has stopped short of recommending Americans be vaccinated against measles, is now suggesting everyone should get the virus to build up their immunity.

"It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Kennedy told Fox News' Sean Hannity as reported in The Daily Beast. “The vaccine doesn’t do that. The vaccine is effective for some people for life, but for many people it wanes.”

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Kennedy, who downplayed his anti-vaccine stance during his Senate confirmation, also told Hannity, "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause, like encephalitis and blindness, etc., so people ought to be able to make that choice for themselves.”

Kennedy did admit, however, that the vaccine does “stop the spread of the disease.”

His comments come in the midst of a measles outbreak in Texas that has killed at least two unvaccinated people.

"More than 220 people in the state have been diagnosed with the infectious virus, and California, New York, and Maryland have also reported cases of late," according to the article. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sweating over the outbreak, warning health-care workers and travelers to 'be vigilant.'”

Read The Daily Beast article here.

'Hannity Vanity!' MAGA fans melt down over Fox News host's behavior in new Trump interview

Conservatives had a bone to pick with Fox News' Sean Hannity for constantly interrupting President Donald Trump during an exclusive interview this week but they didn't seem to have a problem with Trump commandeering the interview and refusing to talk about the economy.

Hannity, usually a favorite among conservatives, was chided up and down on social media Thursday.

MAGA influencer @catturd2 posted, "Hannity loves to hear himself talk. Pathetic," in response to a regional Trump campaign official's complaint, "Why can’t Hannity just hush and stop interrupting? This character flaw aggravates me so much. Let @POTUS speak man!!!"

A poster described as a "communications professional" wrote, "Yeah, there’s a difference between being a talk show host on the radio where you’re the only person in the room and the role of an interviewer. He hasn’t figured that out yet. Kind of a shame given the access he has."

Yet another poster wrote, "Hannity Vanity - That's my President.. Let him speak."

Hannity interrupted Trump several times to change the topic to the economy -- an issue pundits agreed helped Trump win the election. But Trump wasn't having it, causing Hannity to keep interrupting.

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TRUMP: Joe Biden has very bad advisers. Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him.

HANNITY: Let me get to the economy.

TRUMP: Yeah, but Sean —

HANNITY: I'm running out of time.

TRUMP: I don't care.

HANNITY: They're yelling at me.

TRUMP: This is more important because right now the economy is going to do great. I'm here, so the economy —

HANNITY: I want to know about the economy.

TRUMP: But you have to understand, he had bad advisers on almost everything. It's like, in the old days when the secretary of state said he never made a correct decision on foreign policy. Joe Biden got very bad advice.

A podcast host claimed Hannity was literally begging Trump to stay on track.

"Hannity begs Trump to shut the f--- up about his revenge tour and talk about the economy, Trump admits he doesn’t care about the economy: 1. It was only ever about revenge 2. Biden’s economy is good enough for Trump."

Watch the clip below via X or click the link here.

'I hate mosquitoes!' Bug buzzes Trump and derails town hall with Fox News host Hannity

A mosquito buzzed Donald Trump and briefly derailed the former president during a Pennsylvania town hall Wednesday night with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

As Trump bemoaned that Democrats threw his previous opponent President Joe Biden out of the race, the MAGA leader swats a bug buzzing his ear.

The encroachment into Trump's speech prompted him to turn to the audience.

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"I hate mosquitoes," he said. "I'm surprised I didn't think we had — we don't like those mosquitoes running around."

As Trump swatted at the space invader again, he continued railing against the blood-suckers and tried to transition back to his rivals.

"We want nothing to do with them. And we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country too," he said, to cheers.

Watch the clip below or at this link.

'We're not weird!' Trump insists at PA town hall 'I happen to be a very solid rock'

Former President Donald Trump brushed off Democrat attacks that he and running mate J.D. Vance are "weird" during a Wednesday night town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity, throwing the attack back at Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.

At the Pennsylavania event, Trump boasted of obtaining endorsements from Walz's family members and called them a "nice-looking family."

"His brother endorsed me," Trump said to applause, later adding there's "something weird with that guy. He's a weird guy."

Trump then tried to push back against a torrent of Democrat attacks in recent weeks labeling Vance "weird."

"J.D. isn't weird. He is a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock. We're not weird. We're other things perhaps but we're not weird," said Trump.

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He then returned to his attack on Walz.

"But he is a weird guy. He walks on the stage, there's something wrong with that guy and he called me 'weird.' And then the fake-news media picks it up. That was the word of the day. 'Weird. Weird. Weird.' They were all going — but we're not weird guys we're very solid people who want their country to be great again. It's very simple."

Watch the clip below or at this link.

Watch: Hannity flubs congressman's name just after blasting Biden's cognitive abilities

In a poorly-timed flub, Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to call Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) by the name of his state instead of his actual name.

This came shortly after yet another segment in which Hannity cast aspersions on President Joe Biden's cognitive abilities, suggesting he was unfit to carry out the basic duties of office.

"Here with reaction, Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson, Florida Congressman Michael Waltz," Hannity said in the clip first flagged by Acyn Torabi of the progressive Meidas Touch. "Florida — uh, Congressman..."

In recent weeks, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets have tried to push the narrative that Biden lost his mental faculties using a series of deceptively edited videos. The videos are called "cheapfakes" to distinguish them from fully engineered deepfakes, cut or cropped to create the impression Biden is not entirely there.

In a recent example, the New York Post showed a clip of Biden appearing to wander off from other leaders at the G7 summit, cutting out that he was interacting with a paratrooper off-screen.

While Biden has messed up words in his speeches, as a result of trying to control a lifelong stutter, such flubs are common in regular speech by everyone, and Hannity is by no means alone — Trump himself gave a speech in Racine, Wisconsin this week loaded with speech flubs.

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