Fox Business host Stuart Varney ended an interview with former FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam after he floated the conspiracy theory that Democrats wanted to kill former President Donald Trump.
During a segment on Tuesday, Varney asked Gilliam if Trump should change his campaign strategy after a second assassination attempt was made on his life on Sunday.
"Well, so far, the way he campaigns has not been the problem, Stuart," Gilliam replied. "It's been the Secret Service."
"So I have to sit back and ask, is this a nefarious thing that's going on within the side of the Secret Service that they're just leaving these areas open?" he continued. "Because if that's the case, then I think Trump needs to take a serious step back and hire individuals like myself and other people that I can bring in to simply do perimeter checks, and then he can campaign as normal."
The former special agent then repeated a conspiracy theory that he said he had been promoting in radio interviews.
"The Democrat Party, regardless of the rhetoric that they want, they want Trump dead," Gilliam opined.
"I'm sorry, Jonathan," Varney interrupted. "I don't think you can say that legitimately."
"I think we can say that legitimately based on the verbiage that they use, and then they cover up," Gilliam asserted. "To say that they want him eliminated, to say that they want him gone, these are words that push people forward, and then you have directors of agencies like this that come on, and they do not do the job, the simple job of perimeter security over and over and over again."
With that, the Fox Business host quickly ended the interview.
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"Jonathan, I'm sorry, I'm going to end it right there," Varney explained. "I'm not going to take any conspiracy theories on this show."
"That's not a conspiracy theory," Gilliam pleaded.
"Yes, it is," Varney insisted. "And I'm not having it."
