Fox Hosts Aren’t Coping With Possible Trump Indictment

Fox News hosts fretted Monday over the potential indictment of Donald Trump for a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“They better not put my president in prison,” an upset Jesse Watters said on The Five before clinging to Trump’s popular vote count in the 2020 election as some sort of defense. “He represents 74 million Americans. And if he’s the nominee, you’re putting 74 million votes in prison. And that’s how I see it.”

After Watters downplayed Trump’s potential crime as a mere “bookkeeping charge,” he turned his attention to other crimes in New York, specifically violent, antisemitic ones, and accused Manhattan District Attorney Bragg of not seeking harsher sentences in those cases. “He’s emptying the prison — what, to make room for Trump?” Watters exclaimed. “No one else is getting charged with anything.”

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