Fox News host questions whether Democrats think assassination attempt was a 'cheap fake'
As Fox News hosts debated whether the media is trying to censor photographs showing a defiant — and bloody —former President Donald Trump following a failed assassination attempt, one host appeared to pose a conspiratorial question: do Trump's opponents think it was fake?
The comment came Wednesday on "The Five" after Judge Jeanine Pirro pointed to a photo of Trump's raised fist and said that will be a statue soon, and remarked that some people are even turning it into a tattoo.
"Are you going to get a tattoo Jesse?" she asks co-host Jesse Watters.
"Right on my rear-end, Jeanine," he retorted. "Would you give it to me please?"
Watters said getting shot will "elicit sympathy" from Americans, and remarked that Trump is "vain."
"He didn't want the ear patch," said Watters, later adding "it's not like the Secret Service agents were squeezing little Heinz ketchup packets onto his ear before they got him into the vehicle."
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Watters then floated, baselessly, "It seems the photographers are mad Trump's still alive."
He then blasted photographers, saying if they don't want their photos to be used for political gain, "make pottery. Sell it on the side of the street."
It's here where Pirro asks a question, baffling contributor Jessica Tarlov: "You know the Democrats, they coined the phrase 'cheap fake' — are they saying the shooting was a cheap fake or that this is?"
"I don't think so," Tarlov replies. I don't think anyone is disputing that something happened to him. It has been debunked that it was glass, that was certainly the going explanation for an hour or so on Saturday when this happened. But we know what it was."
Tarlov then slams any far-left conspiracy theories floating out there undermining the seriousness of the shooting, but said the average person she talks to doesn't buy them.
"Everyone acknowledges that this happened, it was really serious and is concerned about what it forbodes for the future," she said.