A Fox News audience composed of pro-Trump supporters laughed during a Wednesday town hall that was billed as focusing on women’s issues when the disgraced ex-president cracked a tasteless joke about a pregnant Georgia woman who died as the result of being unable to get medical care after taking medication to terminate her pregnancy.
The woman, Amber Thurman, ProPublica reported in September, “suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat.”
She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.
But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.
Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.
The host of the town hall was Harris Faulkner, and she told Trump as the event began, “I want to share with you Senators Warnock and Ossoff, [former] Atlanta Mayor [Keisha] Bottoms, and Amber Thurman’s family have come out on a press call. And they’re doing what’s called a prebuttal to our town hall right now.”
His voice dripping with sarcasm, Trump said, “Oh, that’s nice.”
“Yeah,” Faulkner replied.
“You’ll get better ratings, I promise,” Trump added as Faulkner grinned.
Some in the audience began applauding and laughing. Others yelled, “Woooo!”
Fox host: The family of Amber Thurman, who died after not receiving urgent care needed for an infection under Georgia’s abortion ban, is speaking ahead of this town hall
Trump’s flippant comment and the reaction from women in the audience set off a torrent of criticism on Twitter.
Yes, Trump is a sociopath for making a joke about a woman who lost her life because of his actions. But those women in the audience who laughed are vile too.
There aren’t enough curse words in the world for this one. The fact that he can hear about a woman who died due to cruel, inhumane laws and his immediate response is to pivot to ratings? Forget burnt to a crisp — this man’s empathy was cremated years ago.
The Fox hostess (or whatever she’s called) is mocking Amber Thurman’s family for doing a pre-buttal. Then Trump makes jokes at Amber and her family’s expense. Then on top of that, the Fox Town Hall ALL WOMEN audience erupts in wild laughter. This is disgusting & disgraceful.
His psychopathy doesn’t allow him to feel empathy or any other human emotion. It’s reprehensible that Trump, the Fox News interviewer and the crowd are laughing. These people have no compassion, no heart and no decency. Until it happens to them they can’t feel anything.
He just said the quiet part out loud. He doesn’t give a crap about the abortion issue or women. It’s ALL about the ratings. Narcissism at its finest and worst.
Just a few hours after losing Tuesday evening’s debate to Vice President Kamala Harris, failed ex-president Donald Trump called into Fox News and immediately began attacking the conservative network for daring to suggest that he had performed badly.
On “Fox & Friends,” Trump was asked if he would be open to the idea of a second debate which would be hosted by Fox.
“I wouldn’t want to have Martha and Brad,” Trump insisted, referring to Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier.
“I’d love to have somebody else other than Martha and Brad,” Trump reiterated, suggesting Fox’s Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters or Laura Ingraham would meet with his approval.
Live on Fox, Trump insults the two Fox anchors who have been pitched as debate moderators – Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum – and says "I wouldn't want to have" them. He says he would want Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters or Laura Ingraham to host instead. (An obvious non-starter.) pic.twitter.com/uXVJtnYn8L
Trump: Excuse me, excuse me, please, I don’t just want the BAD Fox News personalities like Brett Baier and Martha MacCallum to moderate the next debate, I want the very WORST Fox News personalities to moderate the debate, like Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.
According to Fox News host Sean Hannity, if supporters of failed former president Donald Trump are unhappy with the ABC News moderators at tonight’s presidential debate, “half the country” will engage in a boycott of ABC’s parent company, Disney, and their theme parks.
Media Matters for America reports that Hannity made his remarks Monday evening on his show, telling viewers, “Just 24 hours right now, the one and only scheduled presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will take place. You can watch it right here on Fox News Channel. But unfortunately, it is being moderated by ABC-Disney. Barring some kind of political miracle, this debate will not be fair. ABC-Disney is officially a woke, left-wing organization.”
Disney is woke and left-wing? So does that mean Mickey Mouse is a communist and Goofy is Vladimir Lenin in disguise?
That wasn’t all Hannity had to say. And the more he talked, the more absurd he got.
“Maybe Bob Iger and his left-wing heir apparent, maybe they don’t want half the country to attend their theme parks, maybe they don’t care about their tanking stock price, which is their prerogative. They’re free to make that choice, but if they are biased against Donald Trump, as they have been leading into tomorrow night, as their nightly newscast is, half the country is not going to like it one bit. They are not going to like ABC-Disney one bit either.”
Here’s the video:
Do you get the feeling that Fox is worried Trump will self-immolate on national television this evening? If he does, the only person to blame will be him. And it’s safe to assume that the Disney theme parks will be fine. After all, Walt Disney was a capitalist and the company loves turning a profit.
Fox News host Jesse Watters got more than he bargained for when he aired a segment Monday evening with a reporter talking to young people near the New York University campus, which just so happens to be where Barron Trump, the son of failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump is currently enrolled, according to HuffPost.
One person said he had a class with Barron Trump. A teacher had asked the ex-president’s son what movies he had seen recently. Barron’s reply: “Bloodsport,” a 1988 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Another young person was asked if he had a message for Watters, to which he replied, “Eat shit, Jesse Watters!”
Reaction to the video ran the gamut, with many laughing at Watters, who seemed amused by being told eat excrement.
'Eat Sh*t, Jesse Watters': Fox News Back-to-School Segment Takes a TURN https://t.co/Aah0CXestp
@JesseBWatters mocks college kids yet he attended college paid for by his parents. Or maybe he’s interviewing the next girl he’s planning on hooking up with.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg brilliantly used facts to counter the falsehoods being spouted by Fox News host Lawrence Jones when the secretary appeared on the network to discuss the 2024 election and this week’s Democratic National Convention.
Jones challenged Buttigieg to defend the Biden administration’s actions against crime in the United States, claiming that violent crime was up 10% across 66 major cities.
“Well, certainly the Biden-Harris record for bringing crime down compared to why crime went up under Donald Trump, and I often wonder whether viewers of this network are aware that violent crime went up under Donald Trump,” Buttigieg said. “I think that deserves more coverage so we can ask ourselves why, and some of that has to do with policy. Some of that has to do with the message we send. When you have Donald Trump, an unrepentant convicted criminal running against a prosecutor like Kamala Harris, we have an opportunity to send a message about whether we’re serious on law and order in this country or whether it’s a talking point, or whether it’s just something people try to use as a political theme for partisan gain. You want to talk about inflation? Inflation went up in every country after COVID, but we brought inflation down in this country.”
Jones attempted to interrupt Buttigieg, but the transportation secretary would have none of it, making his next point despite the host’s rudeness.
“Every election is about the future, right? In the future, economists predict the Trump plan will increase costs for American families by $3,900, so why would we go back to somebody who’s going to make it worse?”
“You guys sent the cavalry in for you guys, for your protection, but the people of Chicago don’t see that on a day-to-day basis,” Jones claimed. “What are you guys going to do to stop the bloodshed in our communities?”
Buttigieg also noted that gun crime is a problem in the U.S., and yet the GOP refuses to pass sensible gun reform legislation.
“The big question, I think, for politics, for policy, for media, is who is going to help them versus who is going to use them. The questions she’s asking are the exact questions that any citizen should be asking.”
When Jones attempted to dodge the gun issue, Buttigieg once again pushed back.
“Donald Trump says no, the Republican Party says no,” Buttigieg said. “Talk about assault weapons, something that made a difference, when that assault weapons ban contributed to a reduction in crime. I remember coming to Chicago as a kid, and by the way, even though some media only want to talk about the worst and most painful things that go on in our cities, Chicago is a proud city, Chicago is an extraordinary city. But I do remember coming here when crime and murder was off the charts.”
Jones then asked Buttigieg to name one Republican leader in Chicago.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa – listen to me,” Buttigieg replied. “Not only did we have those levels of crime under Democratic and Republican leaders, but if you’ll try to cherry pick this for partisan purposes, you want to play that game? So is the case in Boston, where there is a much lower murder rate and also a Democratic mayor. We could talk about the murder rate in Mississippi being double what it is in Illinois. Now I could go around saying that the murder rate in Mississippi being double what it is in Illinois because Mississippi has a Republican governor and Illinois has a Democratic governor, but you and I both know it just doesn’t work that way.”
"People want to nitpick the show flow of the cabinet meeting? When we had a country that when he inherited it was in a condition where you couldn't even approach the Capitol bc of violence by Trump supporters" — Buttigieg went on Fox & Friends this morn for another masterclass pic.twitter.com/4Yr8B0ORsL
Pete Buttigieg is a national treasure, and he’s one of the best in the world when it comes to countering the bullshit narratives being spun over at Fox.
