Fox & Friends Mocks Claudine Gay Citing ‘Racial Animus’ Behind Her Resignation: ‘She Didn’t Break the Glass Ceiling On Her Merit’

Lawrence Jones took the lead on Fox & Friends as the show tore into Claudine Gay in light of her resignation as president of Harvard University.

The Fox News morning show started Wednesday off with Gay’s resignation while she was under major scrutiny over Harvard’s handling of on-campus anti-Semitism, plus the plagiarism charges that have been raised against her. Jones was not satisfied with Gay’s resignation alone, saying she’s just “one person” and asking “What about the 12-member board that appointed her? Why do they get to keep their jobs?”

Why does the general counsel who worded this crafty statement that she read in front of Congress, why do they get to stay? All of them need to go, plus the over 150-plus professors that signed a letter in agreement of her statement. I know some people are celebrating this, and by the way, why didn’t you vet her to look at her plagiarism? She got the PhD In 1998. I think I was 6 at the time. Y’all had plenty of time to look through her work. Apparently people had already reported some of the stuff was plagiarizeand, and y’all didn’t take any of that into consideration before you all appointed her? I just think they need to clean house in the entire campus.

Shortly thereafter, Brian Kilmeade brought up the part of Gay’s public statement where she said her decision to resign was partially based on the “personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus” she has seen. This prompted Steve Doocy to ask, “Was it racist a couple of weeks ago when Elizabeth Magill of U Penn resigned? She was at the same disastrous press conference, and she made exactly the same argument.”

Jones expounded on this when he got back into the conversation, challenging Gay’s defenders on whether she truly cracked the glass ceiling if her plagiarism allegations hold up.

When they talk about the racial animus of this — we as a country, because we are a young country. A little only 200 years. We all celebrate when we break certain glass ceilings, but she didn’t break the glass ceiling on her merit, because she plagiarized her work! And I think to then say ‘Hey, look! It’s because of my race, and you guys didn’t want me to break the glass ceiling anyway.’ When you literally put all this work out that wasn’t really your own, did you really break the glass ceiling? Did you use someone else’s work to break the glass ceiling?

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