Dear Commons Community,
During a sit-down interview with Bret Baier on Wednesday, Oct. 16, the Fox News host attempted to corner Harris by asking her if she believes that Trump’s supporters are “stupid.” He was trying to get her to say “Yes” and create sound bite similar to Hillary Clinton calling Trump supporters “deplorable” in the 2016 election. However, Harris was quick to see his ploy.
“Oh, God, I would never say that about the American people,” Harris, 59, responded. “And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he’s the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish the American people. He’s the one who talks about an ‘enemy within’ … talking about the American people. Suggesting he would turn the American military on the American people.”
Harris was referencing Trump’s recent string of comments where he has described “radical left lunatics” — using California Rep. Adam Schiff as an example — as the United States’ “enemy from within,” at one point offering up an idea that the military could be used to wrangle the left.
Baier, 54, told Harris that Trump had already cleared the air about his troubling comments, then played a clip for Harris of how the former president explained them on The Faulkner Focus.
“They were saying I was threatening, I’m not threatening anybody,” Trump, 78, said in the clip that Harris was shown. He then claimed that he has been the victim of “weaponization of government.”
What the clip left out is that seconds before Trump told Harris Faulkner that he wasn’t threatening anybody, he had doubled down on his rhetoric against the “enemy from within,” saying that a “strong president” is needed to “handle” anti-MAGA Democrats, whom he described as “sick” and “evil.”
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson was unimpressed by Bret Baier’s explanation that the network played the wrong clip during the controversial exchange.
“Now Bret Baier says ‘his mistake’ was that he ran the wrong Trump ‘enemy from within’ clip during interview w/ Harris,” Carlson posted Thursday on X, “Newsflash: When wrong clips run (which happens) hosts can easily say ‘Sorry that was the wrong clip’. He or his producers would have known it was the wrong one right then.”
Harris called Baier out for the shorter clip on the spot and made him look like a manipulator.
The interview proved again that Baier, Faulkner, and the whole Fox News crew (except Neil Cavuto) are flunkies for Trump and the Republicans.
Tony
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