Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Attacks ‘Embarrassment’ Republican Congressman: ‘He’s Got a Problem With the President’

Fox host Brian Kilmeade blasted Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (KY) as an “embarrassment” during a segment about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation on Friday, saying the lawmaker has “got a problem with the president.”

The moment came during Friday’s Fox & Friends, as Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt, and Lawrence Jones dissected Hillary Clinton’s closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee the day before.

“Thomas Massie is just an embarrassment,” Kilmeade told his co-hosts. “He’s got a problem with the president. The president’s got a problem with him. So now, this guy who was a libertarian is going all in on the most leftist in the other party. So he’s not even serving the people that put him into office. But the Epstein files is interesting because they want to go for Donald Trump.”

Kilmeade added that Epstein worked with author Michael Wolff to thwart Trump’s 2016 election bid, but came up empty.

“And Epstein came up with nothing while he was alive,” Kilmeade said. “And Donald Trump is meeting with cops saying, ‘Thank goodness you arrested him and Maxwell because everyone knows how bad they were.’ So they don’t wanna talk about that and the interaction ended earlier.

Read the conversation here:

LAWRENCE JONES: I see it from two different angles, First, as it relates to Hillary Clinton, her continuing to say — even though it’s her right to do it — saying, “I don’t recall, I don’t recall.” That’s legal speak for saying I don’t want to get myself — I don’t want to lie under oath. So, take that with whatever you may — it’s her right to do it. No. 2 is what I don’t like about this. There are people that were legitimate sick people, that did bad things. The Justice Department should charge these people. I don’t think we should get in the habit of just releasing the information without charging people.

BRIAN KILMEADE: Grand jury information.

JONES: Which is illegal. Unless some special circumstances, that information is supposed to be protected. So I understand what Massie and — what’s his name? Ro Khanna — in all of this. But they’re inviting people to the State of the Union. There is a part of this that wasn’t even a victim as his guest. So we’ll see what happens.

BRIAN KILMEADE: Thomas Massie is just an embarrassment. He’s got a problem with the president. The president’s got a problem with him. So now, this guy who was a libertarian is going all in on the most leftist in the other party. So he’s not even serving the people that put him into office. But the Epstein files is interesting because they want to go for Donald Trump. They are desperate to get Donald Trump. But, in the Epstein files, has the fact that he is coordinating with other people to stop Donald Trump with Michael Wolff. “We have to find a silver bullet to stop Trump from running for president. There’s got to be something.” And Epstein came up with nothing while he was alive. And Donald Trump is meeting with cops saying, “Thank goodness you arrested him and Maxwell because everyone knows how bad they were.” So they don’t wanna talk about that and the interaction ended earlier. But, Howard Lutnick could be next — James Comer said last night — they wanna to maybe have him back to justify some of the things he said and didn’t say before.

JONES: All right.

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