House Democrat Calls Out Trump’s Birtherism And Fox News Has No Response

Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 08:54 pm

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Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) left Fox News with no response after he called out Trump’s birtherism against Barack Obama.

Rep. Cicilline said on Fox News Sunday, “I don’t have any difficulty with those words It’s kind of rich to have the president complain about this when he began a campaign with ‘lock her up’ as his bumper sticker and led an effort to delegitimize the first African-American president.”

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Bret Baier immediately changed the subject to talk about House Democrats being divided over impeachment.

It is rich for Trump to complain because Nancy Pelosi said privately that she would like to see Trump in prison when he waged a public campaign to delegitimize the first African-American president with a birther conspiracy and made a chant about his Democratic opponent a key piece of his 2016 campaign.

Fox News doesn’t want to discuss any of that. They would rather talk about how Democrats are “divided” over impeachment. The truth is that Democrats aren’t divided on impeachment. They have not agreed on when to launch an impeachment investigation.

Fox News Sunday had no response to the valid point about the absurdity of Donald Trump complaining about Pelosi suggesting that he be sent to prison. Unlike Hilary Clinton, Donald Trump appears to have committed crimes, and there is no escape from reality even on Trump’s cable news propaganda organ.

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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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