The Five Slams ‘Anonymous Resistor’ and ‘Conspirator’ for Anti-Trump NYT Op-Ed: ‘Causing More Mass Hysteria’
New York Times op-ed revealing a coordinated movement within the White House to rein in President Donald Trump amid questions over his fitness to serve has riled up not only the commander in chief, but also his favorite channel, Fox News.
Under a backdrop headlined “Hunt for Anonymous Resistor” sat the co-hosts of The Five Thursday evening, who decried the editorial and bashed the unidentified senior administration official behind it.
“They’re causing more mass hysteria,” claimed Nicole Saphier, a New York-based doctor who’d made her debut on the show that night.
Like most of Trump’s supporters, Saphier suggested the focus be placed on the president’s accomplishments rather than the increasingly apparent concern from his staff that he is unqualified for his position.
“This is just another provocative thing, and if you aren’t going to put your name on it, you can’t refute it,” she said. “I find it pathetic.”
Chiming in, Jesse Watters offered a predictably fiery rebuke of the op-ed, calling it “very, very serious.”
“It’s probably the biggest scandal, in my opinion, within the Trump administration so far,” he asserted, going on to speculate over the individual responsible, despite no public evidence of whom that person may be. “All of the other scandals have been about personnel and bickering and some something crazy Trump said off the record. This is a conspirator and he’s got a cabal of other conspirators inside the White House getting paid by the taxpayer. He’s unelected. He’s got buddies and they’re preventing the president from execute his vision for making America great again. It’s incredibly dangerous.”
Juan Williams, offering his typically dissenting opinion on the matter, pointed out that a number of people, as noted in journalist Bob Woodward‘s forthcoming book, Fear, are worried about Trump’s behavior, a growing list of accounts expressing “that this guy is not making rational decisions and he is scaring the people in the White House.”
However, it wasn’t long before the discussion turned into a shouting match, Watters arguing, “We’re not living in dangerous times. You’re safe, we’re all safe, and a lot more safer than under Barack Obama.”
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