Foxโs Neil Cavuto Challenges Trump-Boosting Colleague: โDo You Fault the President for Anything?โ
Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on Wednesday confronted one of the networkโs most loyal Trump defenders, dismantling Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrettโs latest pro-Trump book that asserts the president is the victim of an ongoing โwitch huntโ by the so-called Deep State and Democrats.
As Jarrett promoted his new book on Cavutoโs show, the pro-Trump pundit immediately remarked that his hostโs copy of the book was marked with a โlot of yellow Post-It notes.โ
Cavuto, meanwhile, went on to note that Jarrett focuses much of his bookโs attention on blaming the media for the purported witch hunt against Trump, which Jarrett claims the Ukraine scandal is part of. After the Fox analyst claimed the media was โlazy,โ suffer from a โliberal bias,โ and โshoot from the hip,โ Cavuto wondered aloud if Jarrett could say anything negative about the presidentโs behavior and tendency to lie and misspeak.
โBut do you say that the president does not sometimes confuse people?โ Cavuto asked. โHe says something and then says something else?โ
Jarrett tried to deflect, complaining about reporters accepting โintelligence leaks,โ prompting Cavuto to press again.
โI get that, and you well-researched that and documented with great detail, and it is impressive,โ the Fox anchor noted. โBut do you fault the president for anything?โ
Pausing for a moment, Jarrett responded that the one thing he can fault Trump for was hiring Jeff Sessions as his attorney general, something he added Trump himself has said he was wrong to do.
Cavuto, who is one of the rare Trump-skeptic voices on Fox, further confronted his colleague on Trumpโs lies and flip-flops on payments he made to women he had alleged affairs with, causing Jarrett to shrug that off. The host then moved on to Trump attempting to get a foreign leader to dig up dirt on a political opponent.
โWith the Ukraine situation, when you look at thatโnow you are the lawyer, I donโt know what is considered a high crime or misdemeanor, might not fit the case hereโis it proper for a sitting president of the United States to talk to a foreign leader about involving himself in a campaign?โ Cavuto asked.
The pro-Trump Fox personality, however, took the opportunity to make an argument heโs made in the pastโthat Trump was "duty-bound" to ask Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family if he believes a crime was committed, and it would be a dereliction of his Constitutional duty if he didn't. (There is no evidence Biden or his son did anything illegal or wrong in Ukraine.)
After a bit more back and forth, Cavuto eventually tried to get Jarrett to admit at least one thing: Doesnโt it โlook badโ that Trump pressed Ukraine to investigate Biden?
โIt looks bad to Democrats,โ Jarrett said. โIt does not look bad to me.โ
This gentle but telling confrontation comes on the heels of a network civil war between the Fox news division and opinion hosts and commentators, which recently spilled out on air. Earlier this month, amid these clashes, longtime anchor Shepard Smith announced he was departing Fox News after 23 years.
https://news.yahoo.com/fox-neil-cavuto-challenges-trump-214252320.html
Looks like Cavuto and Wallace are that last two voices of reason over at FOX.