Fox News Host Shouts Down Co-Host For Criticizing Trump’s Rhetoric: Biden ‘Despises Half of the United States!’
Fox News hosts Charles Payne and Jessica Tarlov sparred over Donald Trump’s character on Tuesday as news came in that the former president won the New Hampshire GOP primary.
Tarlov, a Democratic strategist, weighed in first and argued that Trump would likely have a hard time converting Haley voters and others critical of the former president’s insults and crass behavior.
Tarlov concluded Trump “has an uncontrollable narcissism and rage about him when he feels insulted.”
Payne was brought into the conversation next and replied, “And I don’t think it’s narcissism. I think it’s you’ve lived in New York long enough. You know, it’s maybe a New York thing. Someone punches you, you punch him back harder. That’s why I grew up in Harlem.”
“Not if the country’s at stake, right?” Tarlov shot back.
“He won. He became president of the United States, with that same personality,” Payne replied, becoming more animated, adding:
I don’t think that, you know, listen, I think it’s worse with Biden calling MAGA, Biden’s anger and vitriol and hatred for MAGA it’s far more worse than President Trump’s individual battles with someone who crosses him. That is something that is really detrimental to this country, that the president of the United States despises half of the United States. President Biden, I said earlier today, I just wrote about a week ago I had a segment coming up, so I googled, ‘Biden hates MAGA.’ Nothing but articles after articles after articles. He has expressed hatred for half of the country.
“Who is writing those articles?” interjected Tarlov, skeptical of Payne’s internet research.
“It doesn’t matter because the bottom line is he says it,” Payne hit back raising his voice and concluding:
He has vitriol for them. And so that’s MSNBC. And so that’s CNN. And so that’s the New York Times. They have vitriol for half of the nation. They don’t look at them like fellow Americans. And it’s unfortunate they try to paint them as racist, that all the things that they do to their fellow Americans who simply want a safe home, a safe community for the children, and prosperity, they want the same thing, but they demean them all the time. That’s why I think Phillips was so intriguing, because he went to a rally to find out for himself. And guess what? Golly, these are some pretty cool people.
“And it just it’s smart to understand. And also, you see the shift that’s happening, right? You look at, Black voters, Hispanic voters, college women, Latinos who have moved towards Trump. Yeah. So it’s no longer that people are in these boxes based on what their gender is or what they look like. They appear to want, you know, a safe country and they appear to want, a good economy, regardless of what label they have,” added anchor Martha MacCallum.
“That’s completely fine. And I know that the lines have shifted dramatically. And but Joe Biden’s responsible for a lot of that, saying that he’s demeaned half the country. First of all, it’s 74 million people that voted for Donald Trump. And he is explicit every time he talks about the MAGA movement to say that this is a subsection of the Republican Party, which is borne out in elections, when you see people voting against Donald Trump,” Tarlov added.
“What about the people voting for him?” Payne shot back as the panel began speaking over each other.
“But he is talking about insurrectionists,” Tarlov can be heard saying as her colleagues protested loudly.
After more cross-talk, MacCallum can be heard saying, “He says MAGA like it’s a swear word, instead of a slogan.”
Tarlov hit back nothing Democrats are regularly called, “Thugs, pedophiles, socialists, communists.”
Kellyanne Conway cut in saying, “Why can’t the border crisis while he’s denigrating, castigating America?”
“That’s not what we are talking about,” replied Tarlov.
“The voters are talking about that, Jessica,” added Conway before arguing that Biden’s attacks on MAGA are his “version of Hillary’s deplorable and irredeemable.”
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