‘Extremely Disappointing’: Fox & Friends Voter Panel Features Surprisingly Vocal Trump Critics

A Fox & Friends voter panel discussing Tuesday night’s Town Hall with former President Donald Trump featured predictable pro-Trump commentary, but it was the surprisingly vocal critics of the ex-president who stood out.

Sean Hannity hosted an hour-long chat with the former president, which threw off several headlines; none was more newsworthy than Trump’s curious — and possibly arch — promise to be a dictator on day one of his potential second term.

Fox & Friends producers assembled a panel of six voters, many of whom were pro-Trump, and promoted the very same pro-Trump talking points one sees regularly on the top-rated cable news morning show. But it was the searing commentary of two undecided voters — one who identified as a Democrat and another as an Independent — that really stand out on the right-of-center opinion show.

Take Stephanie, for example. Ainsley Earhardt introduced her as “undecided or are you leaning a little bit toward Trump? I know you’re a Democrat, but after watching last night and seeing Joe Biden, how are you feeling?”

She replied in classic Harold Ford style by first agreeing with much of the pro-Trump sentiment previously stated on the panel. Then she got critical.

“The one topic that was not brought up was his handling of coronavirus,” she said of Trump. “And I think that’s something that we really need to talk about. He’s shut down this country. He teed up, you know, a socialist vaccination program that then led to mandates, which caused people like me and thousands of other teachers to lose their jobs. So I think that at the very least, we need to have this conversation, which is part of the reason that I’m making a documentary about those shutdowns and really highlighting his role in that.”

Producers surely didn’t expect a Democrat to blame Trump for Covid lockdowns, but here we are.

Later, the panel featured Ari, a fiscally conservative independent voter who thought “the fiscal policy stuff was great.” But he was not happy that in an hour-long program, anti-Semitism did not come up. Ari said:

What wasn’t discussed was this surge of anti-Semitism. Yeah. Going around this country, around this world. And I need to know that my daughter and my son can wear a Jewish star and walk the streets of Manhattan and be safe. I need to know that college kids on campus, as you’ve discussed, have a safe environment to learn to study. When when university presidents say that, you know, free speech is they confuse free speech with hate speech and that is completely unacceptable. From the river to the sea means a genocide of the Jewish people means the annihilation of Israel. That needs to be discussed. I need to be said that that’s completely wrong and unacceptable. And I was disappointed. It wasn’t discussed.

Always a loyal soldier, Earhardt ran interference for Trump and Israel, saying, “You know, he’s good friends with Benjamin Netanyahu. We saw that the last president was pro-Israel. His daughter is Jewish. His son-in-law is Jewish. But in the next debate or next time he speaks, you’d like to see him address this more?” (Side note: Trump blamed Netanyahu for Oct. 7th.)

“Absolutely,” he replied.”I’m watching your show this morning and watching, you know, as much as I do watch Fox. It’s addressed all the time. And yet we had this hour debate with the potentially the future president, the past, present, future president, the United States of America. And it wasn’t even brought up. That was extremely disappointing.”

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