Kevin O’Leary On Fox News Marvels At Trump’s Total Domination of The Media On Topics That Make You Ask, ‘Who Cares?!’
Kevin O’Leary, the businessman and Shark Tank personality, joined Fox News’s Outnumbered on Thursday and was asked to weigh in on the legal proceedings in Georgia surrounding DA Fani Willis.
Willis is under fire for having hired a prosecutor whom she is having a relationship with and a courtroom hearing is currently underway to determine if there was any wrongdoing on Willis’s part. The hearing is dominating cable news as it could result in Willis being removed from prosecuting the case she brought against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
Host Harris Faulkner asked O’Leary for his take on witness testimony in the Willis hearing, but he chose instead to marvel at Trump’s total domination of the media.
“Well, I want to make an observation about this case, I was looking at some data this morning that shocked me. In media, if you’re buying time, let’s say you’re in a presidential election because frankly, we wouldn’t be tracking this case if it wasn’t tied to Trump,” O’Leary began, adding:
We wouldn’t be watching this right now. What I’ve learned in the last ten days, because I get the data every five business day cycles because we spend so much money on paid media, unpaid media, social media, buys for cable, buys for network.
Trump has done something no one’s ever done before. I’m not saying it’s good or bad. He has sucked the oxygen out of the room for every competitor he has, including Nikki Haley. Even Biden doesn’t get as much network time as he’s getting now.
This is extraordinary. If you actually look at the data, he’s getting about 80% of the unpaid media. I mean, I don’t know if you want to call that genius, but that’s millions of dollars of free network time for all Trump, all day long. Every single second. And here we are, more Trump.
“Now, this is a case that’s hardly consequential to the outcome of the country on policy. And frankly, many people like me say who cares? But every second is Trump. That’s the genius of this,” O’Leary concluded, noting that debating policy has largely been replaced by coverage of Trump.
Watch above via Fox News.
