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Sean Hannity Sean Hannity suggests some news outlets shouldn’t get White House press credentials

Fox News host Sean Hannity suggested on Twitter that he doesn’t want president-elect Donald Trump to grant several major news outlets White House press credentials.

Hannity, who has railed against the “mainstream” media throughout the election for its coverage of Trump, agreed with Twitter user J.R. McClaren, who tweeted that CNN, The New York Times, the Washington Post and other news outlets “shown to have colluded by @wikileaks” should not be granted White House press credentials.

“Amen,” Hannity wrote about the tweet, which referred to WikiLeaks’s publication of hacked emails that showed reporters corresponding with people in the DNC and in the Clinton campaign.

That tweet came in response to Hannity doubling down on CNN, which he has often argued was in the tank for Clinton, and calling CNN media reporter Brian Stelter “a [Fox News] stalker.” Hannity initially went after Stelter for calling the aftermath of the election, which has prompted nationwide protests, a “national emergency” during a CNN segment.

Some have argued that the correspondence between reporters and DNC and Clinton campaign staffers published in the WikiLeaks releases showed evidence of collusion, an argument that was emboldened after POLITICO reported that CNN contributor and DNC interim chief Donna Brazile had twice passed along questions from upcoming town halls to the Clinton campaign. In fact, most of the correspondences revealed by WikiLeaks consisted of reporters asking for comment, setting up in-person meetings and trying to get information from sources, which is a reporter’s job.