NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump's third indictment has plummeted talk shows and news channels into debates and conversations, picking on every single update with their varied and often clashing perspectives. The morning show 'Fox & Friends' is among those many shows and recently, the different opinions of the hosts came to light in a subtle way.
Co-hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt seemed to run into a disagreement on the ongoing chaos around Trump's felony charges. While Doocy was trying to justify Trump's felony charges through recent arguments made by Bill Barr, Earhardt was quick to jump in and cut him off.
Steve Doocy brings up Bill Barr's freedom of speech argument
While discussing the third indictment of Donald Trump, host Brian Kilmeade started the conversation with how this will be a major support to President Joe Biden's campaign and how Trump's missed chances at huge rallies across the country is the "Joe Biden strategy." Doocy responded to this with the interview they were to discuss in the segment in which former Attorney General Bill Barr came in to say that the indictment was not an attack on Trump's First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech.
"He said that Donald Trump can say whatever he wants," Doocy started, "He can lie. He can tell people the election was stolen. But that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy. And the former attorney general said free speech does not give you the right for fraudulent conspiracy. And it’s all about the conspiracy."
He was first cut off by Kilmeade for a clarification when he brought up the felony charges after which Earhardt completely diverted the conversation to come in defense of the former US President. Instead, she attacked President Biden for the discovered classified documents. "It’s really about the double standard here," Earhardt said, "And that’s what makes conservatives mad. It is when you look at Donald Trump getting slapped with 78 felony charges, 640 years if convicted behind bars. Okay. The sitting president, in his garage, had classified documents, too."
Ainsley Earhardt apologized to Steve Doocy for cutting him off
The two hosts, Kilmeade and Earhardt, developed the conversation about the "double standards" in the way Trump and Biden were being looked into. "We have no idea how that is going," Kilmeade said on the topic of Biden not getting equal parts investigated on the discovery of the classified documents.
Earhardt then went on to say, "Exactly. We haven’t heard from that special counsel at all. So, that’s what America’s mad at. That’s why Republicans are supporting Donald Trump. … They are fed up with the way the government is going, with the DOJ, it looks like a two-tiered justice system and people are mad."
Doocy then tried to close off the conversation by concluding, "Well, let's see what the DOJ does. Let's see what Mr Hur out there does when he investigates Biden's case."
Earhardt cut him off again and said, "People are worried about the direction of the country. Our next topic's about the libraries and the books that are in our kids' classrooms. They are worried about the state of this country." Doocy, sounding like he was giving up on arguing, said, "Well then, let's just go to that." The hosts then shared a laugh as Doocy promised to discuss Barr's arguments in the next hour and Earhardt apologized to him for cutting him off.
