Fox News contributor Marie Harf irked her fellow co-hosts on Outnumbered on Wednesday as she mentioned former President Donald Trump’s past links to white supremacy and his pushing the debunked smear that migrants are eating people’s household pets.
Fox host Kayleigh McEnany asked Harf about the moderators and argued that they were focused only on fact-checking Trump and not Kamala Harris.
“Well, look, I will answer that question by saying I was on with my friend Marc Thiessen last night, who’s a conservative Republican, and he made these same points about ABC. But then what he said was, ‘If we’re complaining about the refs, we’re losing.’ So do Republicans wish there had been more fact-checks of Kamala Harris? Sure,” Harf replied, adding:
I would point out that Donald Trump got more than ten minutes more than Kamala Harris to speak last night. So he was given a lot more time to speak by the numbers and he had opportunities to use that time however he wanted. And the challenge was he used that time to take every bait that Kamala Harris put in front of him. He spewed lie after lie after lie after lie.
And I’m glad that the moderators did fact check some of them. And I think that the American people last night saw, setting aside what ABC did or didn’t do, I think these are two very different candidates and a Donald Trump who, when put under pressure from Kamala Harris, you know, not Joe Biden. This is in June 25th when we were sitting here on this couch the day after talking about that, when he was put on the spot, he lied and lied and lied…
McEnany cut in, saying, “You mentioned lie a lot. But was it truthful for her to bring up a Charlottesville hoax, a blood bath hoax was that a lie?”
Harf hit back, “Actually, I don’t think those are hoaxes. I have lived in Charlottesville. I have watched that over and over again. And it’s not just that, Kayleigh, there are so many times he has winked and nodded to white supremacists throughout his career. It’s not in a vacuum here. He has told the Proud Boys that he supports things they do. He has dined with their leader. This isn’t in a vacuum here.”
“He has denounced white supremacy repeatedly,” McEnany shot back.
Harf continued, “While he embraces it repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly and again. If we’re talking about politics and whether, to Harris’s point, it will move the needle. We’re sitting here today talking about how close Donald Trump is to white supremacists. After a night…”
“No, you are!” interjected Harris Faulkner.
“That’s what you’re talking about,” added other panelists.
“Look, a lot of the American people are today. And look, if we’re talking about whether people are eating cats and whether he’s I mean, we are talking today,” Harf insisted.
“That is what you are talking about, white supremacy and cat-eating!” McEnany said.
“The American people, Emily, I believe, wanted to see how they would lower cost at the grocery store. How Kamala Harris would lower housing costs, how she would secure the border, how she would in two wars that, by the way, were created on her watch. They weren’t thinking about cats and white supremacy. They got no answers from Kamala Harris on that,” McEnany said, moving on as Harf could be heard saying, “That’s not what the focus groups show.”
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