Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro Somehow Finds Way to Invoke Obama in Rob Porter Scandal
At the top of her Fox News program last night, Judge Jeanine Pirro — one of the loudest pro-Trump voices in the media — provided a full-throated defense of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly amid the growing Rob Porter scandal. And part of her defense was to somehow point the finger at the previous administration.
With it being reported that Kelly knew for months about the domestic abuse allegations made against Porter, the White House has maintained that Kelly was only fully made aware of the accusations last week and quickly moved to push Porter out at that time. Pirro embraced this explanation Saturday evening.
Highlighting a timeline in which Kelly first gained full knowledge of the severity of the allegations and told Porter to leave within 40 minutes, Pirro pointed out that Kelly couldn’t have known Porter was a wife-beater beforehand since Porter didn’t walk around with a “scarlet letter.” She went on to state who the real people to blame for this controversy are.
“So for everyone who is looking for someone to blame, chill out,” she exclaimed. “You want to blame someone, blame it on the batterer.”
And then we got this.
“You want to stop a four-star general who makes a decision within 40 minutes because you hate Donald Trump? Find another scapegoat. You might want to look at the last president,” Pirro declared.
She then brought on former Trump aide and current Fox News talking head Seb Gorka to discuss the matter, with Gorka claiming that the FBI may have deliberately gummed up the works in giving Porter a security clearance so that this scandal would hit the White House and harm Trump.
Watch the clip above, via Fox News.
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