Harris Faulkner Praises Trump for Walking into ‘Racial Storm’ at NABJ Event, Blasts Co-Moderator for Not Showing ‘Humanity’

Fox News’ Harris Faulkner showered former President Donald Trump with praise for walking into a “racial storm” at the National Association of Black Journalists conference during an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday.

While Trump’s performance during a panel interview co-moderated by Faulkner on Wednesday was widely panned, Faulkner saw it differently.

“I’m watching that back and I’m seeing that we were able to, at some points, the former president and I, have a conversation. So much of what America is focused on today and so much of what that started with, with all that emotion and the gotcha moments from the interviewer who was seated directly to his left has really overtaken the fact that we had a an opportunity to talk with a president who walked into a racial storm yesterday,” she began. ABC News’ Rachel Scott , the other interviewer referenced by Faulkner, kicked off the event with a question that Trump called “very nasty.”

“There were journalists, activists, whatever you want to call people who let their politics show, who wanted the NABJ to rescind its offer to have the 45th president of the United States come and sit,” added Faulkner. “They had also invited Joe Biden , and he had said yes, but he’s not on the ticket anymore. They’ve also invited Kamala Harris . Finally yesterday, after some reported back and forth about her schedule, so on and so forth, she’ll do something via satellite. And I know she’s attending Representative Sheila Jackson Lee’s funeral today, but NABJ is several days, i’s five days Wednesday through Sunday. So, that has been worked out.”

She continued:

But all of that I say because there were protesters who were forecast to come, and then the internal stuff that was going on, he walks out on stage and not a greeting to acknowledge it’s been 18 days at that point since you survived an assassination attempt. We’re going to ask you tough questions, but Mr. President, welcome and we’re glad you’re still here. I mean, it didn’t take much to show humanity and in that moment, I was so disappointed that that didn’t happen. I couldn’t control it, but it got things off to an emotional start. And you and I both know that once that happens and you’re interviewing someone, there is an agenda.

And I’m glad you guys played a clip of that, because America and the journalists in the room who, by the way, sat and listened, some were laughing along with the president, little jokes and quips he was making, there were some critical in the audience, too. But it was expressed respectively or respectfully, rather. There was a way to have taken some of the energy out of that moment, though, with that reporter. And what I would say to anyone who’s going to be discussing race while the Left is playing the race card mightily, take the air out of the balloon a little bit and let things cool down by saying, “Look, I’m willing to discuss anything with you, but if you show me disrespect, if we can’t have mutual respect, then it’s up to you if you want me to get up and leave, it’s all on you. You’ve got to control.” And boom, take it down.

But what the president did say yesterday was he really made some points on the economy, he made points on the, on the border. But the race comments, they have been tough and I don’t know Ainsley, I don’t know, and Steve, that people are going to vote on the color of their skin and their hair texture this time around. This is about money, the color is green. And so when candidates are talked with, it’s worth saying, let’s concentrate no matter who’s in the room. I mean, come on, black communities aren’t aren’t hit by the econo- of course they are! So let’s focus in on that, I think, in terms of how do we empower the voters to know the information that they need to know when they go to vote as early as September 6 in a couple of the battleground states.

During the interview , Trump also mused that Harris only recently “became a Black person,” attacked her for failing the bar exam on her first attempt, and threw his running mate, Senator JD Vance (R-OH), under the bus .

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