Rupert responded with an answer that proves that ratings were more important than the truth at the time. “Thanks Paul. Wake-up call for Hannity, who has been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers,” he wrote. Ryan encouraged Rupert to “put down the echoes of falsehood from our side” and asked that the network’s “contributors, along with Tucker [Carlson], Laura [Ingraham], and Sean get that and execute” the truth. Rupert echoed that “everyone” was “disgusted” by the lies being thrown around, but it seems that nothing was done to stop the erroneous reports.