Fox News’ Jesse Watters Says Trump Court Hearings Are ‘Setting Him Up’ to Be Assassinated (Video)

New polling from ABC News and Ipsos shows former president Donald Trump’s favorability ratings collapsing in the aftermath of his April 4 arraignment and indictment the week prior. Breaking down the numbers, which saw a four-point dip to 25% favorability, “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski said Tuesday that Trump is “dropping like a rock,” and Willie Geist said the number is so low that he’s “starting to dip into being a fringe political candidate.”“If his legal issues don’t take him off the ballot, maybe his poll numbers will,” Brzezinski quipped on her daily MSNBC program.

Fox News has reached a settlement with Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, who filed a defamation lawsuit over a Lou Dobbs tweet and broadcast linking him to rigging the 2020 presidential election.

Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” with Colin Jost and Michael Che took multiple swings at Fox News and Donald Trump on the show.

president was arraigned on 34 counts of felony business record falsification, and still has several other investigations into him happening in other states. In the days following Trump surrendering himself in New York City, Graham has indeed appeared on Fox News multiple times, sometimes on the verge of tears, begging people to send the former president money.“Please help President Trump,” Graham said in one plea. “If you can afford five or 10 bucks, if you can’t afford $1, fine, just pray.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch could be called upon to testify in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit suit against Fox News and Fox Corp., per a Delaware judge who says he is not against calling upon the media moguls. If the attorneys for Dominion issue trial subpoenas to force a testimony from the Fox leaders, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said at a public hearing Wednesday he, “would not quash it and I would compel them to come,” per NBC News. “It would be my discretion that they come,” Davis said. Dominion’s attorneys requested in a letter to the court Wednesday that live testimony be required from Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as Fox board member and former House Speaker Paul Ryan and Fox exec Viet Dinh. Davis approved the request to compel each of them to testify, according to NBC News.

Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corporation board member Paul Ryan and Fox Corp. executive Viet Dinh can be compelled to testify in Dominion’s upcoming defamation trial against Fox News, a judge said on Wednesday.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough thinks former president Donald Trump blew his chance at re-election with his behavior following his arrest and arraignment Tuesday.“If Donald Trump was sane, if he were rational, he would have said, ‘I’m gonna go to bed with the win,’ but as we all know, Donald Trump can’t keep his mouth shut,” the “Morning Joe” host said. “He goes out. I will just say he messes the bed in a stupendous way last night.

UPDATE: CNN cut away from Donald Trump’s post-arraignment at Mar-a-Lago shortly before it ended, with anchor Anderson Cooper calling it a “reprise of every grievance” by the former president.

16-page indictment prosecutors state Trump “orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects.” As part of his plot, prosecutors say Trump had his allies make three payments — $30,000 to a former Trump doorman, $150,000 to a former Playboy modern and $130,000 to Daniels — to cover up his alleged messy behavior. 

pic.twitter.com/w2XHyMOmxZThe clip of Turley commenting during footage anticipating Trump’s arrival to the courthouse was posted to Twitter by user Aaron Rupar. You can watch that above.Trump, who was arrested after entering the courthouse just before 11:30 a.m.

You can’t make this stuff up… pic.twitter.com/a0JEq8PBTtA Manhattan grand jury indicted the former president, now the first in history to face criminal charges, last week. Aside from his facing 30 counts of fraud, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has been investigating his alleged hush money payment to cover-up his involvement with the adult film star Stormy Daniels.It wasn’t certain who the guest was, and the segment appeared to be from Saturday, but Twitter users picked up on “the Freudian slip of all Freudian slips” Monday morning.“What’s in the heart, the mouth speaks,” one user wrote in response to a tweet of the clip.

new votes in 2024, which he would of course need to win.“The good news today is this: this only hurts Donald Trump in a general election, if he gets the nomination,” she said. “He’s not winning one vote that isn’t with him.

indictment on criminal charges came down on Thursday are being dismissed by one Fox News pundit as just an example of how Trump was able to become president in the first place.Former congressman and Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz appeared on Howard Kurtz’ “MediaBuzz” Sunday to discuss the 34 counts that Trump faces allegedly falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. The conversation eventually turned to Trump’s fiery response on his Truth Social site, calling Manhattan District Attorney a “degenerate psychopath.” After reading back Trump’s comments, Kurtz asked Chaffetz if those comments worry him, to which the former Republican politician responded with dismissiveness. Chaffetz on Trump’s Death and Destruction post: I'm sure every attorney would advise their client, just don't say anything, but that's not Donald Trump, and that's why America loves the guy pic.twitter.com/g03mgDbbMV“Look, Donald Trump is always going to take the nonconventional way of doing things.

were surprised by the indictment, apparently because they didn’t expect anything like it for weeks. “Not great when everyone’s like, ‘we knew you’d go to jail.

Rupert Murdoch was eager to make a call and effectively — and emphatically — declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential race as vote counting continued three days after election day, internal Fox News emails show.The Fox News Decision Desk played a pivotal role in the turn of events that was 2020 Election Night, calling the state of Arizona for Biden many hours before any other media outlet.But it was Murdoch who encouraged Fox News leadership to pull the cattle brand from the fire and call things for Biden on Nov. 6, with several states still counting votes, emails made public Friday by Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6 billion defamation case against the network show.“It would be great if we call it for Biden as soon as he gets over, say, 35,000 ahead in Pennsylvania,” Murdoch wrote.

The Fox News-Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit is going to trial.A judge denied granting a summary judgement Friday to Fox News. The cable network was attempting to get Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit thrown out.

 Unless Rupert Murdoch and Fox News settle soon, Dominion Voting Systems will have its day in court in its defamation case against the combative conservative cable newser.

former president Donald Trump’s indictment, giving its panel of Fox News mainstays plenty of room to have unfiltered, knee-jerk reactions in real-time. Jesse Watters, for one, was visibly angry, and warned that the “country’s not going to stand for it.”“People better be careful, and that’s all I’ll say about that,” the “Jesse Watters Primetime” host said.

in an interview with NBC News that was to air Thursday night on “Nightly News with Lester Holt,” said her boss’ text message was part of an effort at Fox News that suddenly threw “caution to the wind.”“There was no one to be found,” said Grossberg, who is suing Fox News, alleging she was set up to take undue blame in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against the network. “And these were the individuals that were ultimately responsible for the programming at the network.” Grossberg paraphrased a text message from her boss in the interview with NBC News, indicating there had been a change in approach.“You can let Maria know there will be no fact-checking today,” Grossberg said.

Selome Hailu The news of Donald Trump’s indictment has come as a shock to many — including someone in the studio at Fox News. A surprise alert came during the telecast of Fox News Live on Thursday: “We have just gotten word,” said anchor Sandra Smith. “Former president Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York. Trump was under investigation by the D.A.’s office for his alleged hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.” As Smith gave the announcement, a voice on a hot mic was heard gasping, followed by someone saying “What?” and “Hmm!” It is unclear whether the exclamations came from one, two or three different voices.