Fox News Channel’s “The Five” blew up again when the fight between the leftist co-host, Jessica Tarlov, and the somewhat conservative co-host, Jesse Watters, over the case brought against former President Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith came to a head.
The fight began when Tarlov cited Hillary Clinton’s claim that the GOP has become a “cult,” saying, “I don’t think it’s a cult but I think that Donald Trump holds an almost mystical level of power and control over a large swath of the Republican base and they are immune to taking in new information, new negative information, new dangerous information, new potentially criminal information about him.”
Continuing, Tarlov defended the indictment by saying that Trump was in the wrong because of the type of documents he allegedly held, saying, “The Presidential Records Act, and Andy McCarthy was talking about this earlier, it doesn’t apply to agency documents. So the way that people are using this to say — I think you said it yesterday, Jesse — ‘Oh, you know, he’s allowed to do this’… He’s not allowed to do it.”
Watters, smirking, fired back with a sarcastic “Good argument.” Predictably, that sent leftist woman Tarlov off. Snapping back at Watters, she said, “Yeah, it is a good argument that he’s not allowed to have those documents. He can’t decide when he declassifies them. He admitted that on tape, which is going to be a huge piece of evidence in this, so stop using the Presidential Records Act.”
Watters then infuriated Tarlov further by declaring, “I will use that act whenever I damn well please!” to which Tarlov snapped back at him, “Well, continue to do it inaccurately.” Then Watters argued that he was about the “smack” Tarlov with the text of the act, as he had printed it out, saying, “I am glad I printed it out! Thank God I printed it out ’cause I’m about to smack you with the act in a second.”
Tarlov resorted to the usual leftist handwringing and muttering about “precedent” and Trump, ignoring the horrors of the Obama and Clinton Administrations, saying, “When everyone says this is unprecedented, the problem is that Donald Trump is doing things that are unprecedented, and we don’t know that these documents weren’t compromised. We heard about that there were two intruders, two Chinese national intruders. We know that he waved around a classified document…”
Watters, at that point, was taken by the absurdity of her ramblings, asking, “Now you care about Chinese nationals?” The implication is that she didn’t care about Biden’s connections to Chinese nationals but it furious about whatever Trump supposedly did at Mar-a-Lago.
She freaked out, snapping back, “The amount deflection that goes on… I say something about China and you go ‘Fang Fang’, or I say something about this and then you just throw out, ‘Hunter Biden is a crack addict.’ Who cares! Talk about what happened today, talk about the indictment, and don’t make up things.”
Watters then fired back with the ridiculousness of her assertions, arguing that it is the left, not the right that is unable to process or take into account new information. In his words: “Before I get into the act, which I have here, you said something that the Trump voters are immune from taking in new information? That’s such B.S. Jessica because we’re actually learning about the Presidential Records Act, we’re learning about the Espionage Act, and we’re actually making legal arguments and using precedent and comparisons to how the Justice Department has treated Democrats.”
Concluding, he re-emphasized that point, saying, “You’re the ones that don’t want to take in any new information.”
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