Fox News host Harris Faulkner is trying to get a new conspiracy theory going at the network, suggesting that President Joe Biden pressured a border official by clearing his throat when he asked the official a question.
The president is visiting El Paso today, and Faulkner showed a video of him asking an official at a Salvation Army migrant center:
“How many folks do you have coming through? It varies week to week, day to day, but how many people do you have coming through?”
The official replied:
“The number is different. We have been serving up to 1,000 for one day.”
Biden then inquired:
“I’m trying to get a sense of the flow. The average.”
To that, the official responded:
“The average, I would say, three to four hundred.”
Questions asked and questions answered, right? Not according to Faulkner who exclaimed:
“The president pressured him! The man told him 1,000 people a day and then the president did a re-ask and cleared his throat and, I don’t know, is that the kind of pressure it takes to get somebody to then change their number?”
Does the official appear to be intimidated by the question? And how do we know it was Biden who cleared his throat? Even if he did, that doesn’t mean he did so as a way of warning anyone that he wanted a different response.
As usual, Fox is trying to stir the shit. For two years they’ve whined that the president won’t visit the border. But when he visits, they’re still not happy.
Fox needs to change their name to Faux News. It’d be the only honest thing they’ve ever done.