‘Now People Say She’s The Victim’: Harris Faulkner Dunks On Claudine Gay’s Claim That Racism Drove Her Out of Harvard

Fox News host Harris Faulkner took exception to ex-Harvard President Claudine Gay’s parting shot that “racial animus,” not findings of plagiarism, led to her ouster.

During the opening to Wednesday’s Outnumbered, Faulkner declared, “Apparently, she says she’s the victim…we’ll do some victim busting.”

Faulkner continued by referencing the disastrous congressional testimony when Gay failed to answer whether calling for genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct:

Despite all of the condemnation after that, Claudine Gay waited nearly a full month after that hearing to resign, and did so without apologizing for her incendiary testimony.

Instead, she said in a statement, “It has been distressing to have doubt cast of my commitment to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor, two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am, and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.”

She ought to talk to some of those students on campus who are Jewish when they were looking for the Jewish people on campus.

“So, when they were hunting Jewish faith students on campus, and those students were fearful, and we were toward the beginnings of the Israel-Hamas savages war, the savages who on October 7, what they had done to trigger that war,” Faulkner clarified.

“When all of that was going on, on Claudine Gay’s campus — she was in charge — those were the victims. Now people say she’s the victim, so now she’s saying it.”

Emily Compagno added, “And to your point, the fact that Tom Elliott pointed out in her resignation letter, zero references to apologies. Zero anything. It’s 17 references to ‘I,’ seven to ‘Me,’ 11 to ‘My,’ and one to ‘Myself.’ She sees herself not only as the victim, but as the center of the universe when the universe is so much bigger than that.”

An Associated Press article on Wednesday drew massive pushback after suggesting essentially the same thing, that Gay wasn’t truly guilty but instead the victim of conservatives pouncing.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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