{"id":40042,"date":"2018-12-21T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40042"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:03:43","slug":"fox-friends-co-host-brian-kilmeade-leaps-off-the-trump-train-says-he-refounded-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40042","title":{"rendered":"Fox & Friends Co-Host Brian Kilmeade Leaps Off the Trump Train, Says He ‘Refounded ISIS’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things are getting really bad for Donald Trump. His secretary of Defense quit with a stinging rebuke of his policies and leadership. He’s heading for a prolonged shutdown that he took credit for in advance, even claiming to be proud of it. And all for a border wall that no one but his Deplorable cult followers<\/a><\/strong> want. The economy is in a tailspin with the markets negative for the whole year. And even his pals at Fox News are getting antsy about supporting his inane, reckless, and impulsive outbursts.<\/p>\n

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Nothing is more representative of the trouble that Trump is in than when his favorite Fox News program, Fox and Friends, gets weak-kneed about backing up his latest idiocy. They have a record of supporting nearly anything he’s done, no matter how ludicrous or destructive or even illegal. But these remarks by co-host Brian Kilmeade during an interview with Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, really hits a low note for Trump at Fox (video below):<\/p>\n

Kilmeade:<\/strong> He’s giving Russia a big win. Vladimir Putin praised him. He also is doing exactly what he criticized President Obama for doing. He said President Obama is the founder of ISIS. He just refounded ISIS. They’ve got 30,000 men there, and they’re already striking back. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That gets pretty much everything in there but an apology to Hillary Clinton for all the Benghazi and email bashing. Kilmeade noted that Putin is on Trump’s side regarding the Syria withdrawal. He compared Trump to his nemsis, Barack Obama. And he hung the founding of ISIS around Trump’s turkey neck.<\/p>\n

For her part, Sanders acted like a deer already run down by the bus with the headlights in her face. She “respectfully, but vehemently”<\/em> disagreed with Kilmeade’s analysis. But her defense of Trump was pitifully weak and devoid of any factual basis. She tried to turn the whole ISIS fight into a personal one between them and Trump saying that “If ISIS wants to pick a fight with somebody, they sure as hell don’t want to pick one with Donald Trump.”<\/em> Something tells me that they really do. He’s a coward who can’t concentrate on anything for more than half a minute, unless it’s a mirror.<\/p>\n

Then Sanders emulated her boss by making up numbers to glorify him. “We’ve wiped out 99.9% of ISIS in Syria,”<\/em> she blurted out nonsensically. Where she got that figure from is – well it’s dark and ugly. Since there are estimated to be 30,000 ISIS fighters in Syria today, that means that before having allegedly wiped out 99.9% of them there were 30,000,000. That’s nearly twice the population of Syria.<\/p>\n

Sanders also parroted Trump’s own assertions that he has done more damage to ISIS<\/a><\/strong> than anyone. She insisted that he surely never did anything to help them. To which Kilmeade replied “Leaving is helping.”<\/em> And he actually called her out for lying saying that “The word on the ground is different from what you just said.”<\/em> That may be the first time that Sanders has been called a liar by a Fox News host on the air. And if it’s any indicator of what’s to come, Trump might as well start packing his bags for Mar-A-Lago – or prison.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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"Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade tells Sarah Sanders that Trump has "refounded ISIS" by withdrawing from Syria pic.twitter.com\/Yr7NdlvxPU<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) December 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n