On Thursday, Fox News’ Bret Baier was interviewing former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the network’s Special Report. That interview veered into Trump’s recent comments attacking Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and praising Hezbollah as “very smart.”

Baier asked McCarthy to weigh in on how those comments might be perceived, including Trump’s fury over Netanyahu congratulating President Joe Biden on his electoral win. He asked McCarthy how Trump could say such things, “when Israel is going through what it’s going through.”

Trump’s comments caused quite a stir in Republican circles, and as it turns out, some people don’t believe Trump made the statements. Not recently, anyway. One viewer, Stephanie Young, took to Twitter to voice her displeasure with the interview:

@BretBaier was nasty on Trump this evening speaking with @SpeakermcCarthy He played a clip from 2021 as if it was Trump’s words today. Also he nagged @SpeakerMcCarthy repeatedly.
He was rude and unpleasant!

— Stephanie Young (@foxhavens) October 12, 2023

Bret Baier, having been “tagged” in the message by Young’s use of the @ symbol and his username, was notified of the post. He responded relatively quickly:

Sorry you felt that way. The former President’s comments about Netanyahu and Hezbollah were made in Florida yesterday. They were played on air before the interview. I quoted an article that aimed to provide more context to the Trump-Netanyahu relationship in recent years- sorry… https://t.co/DpRqqOnArH

— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) October 12, 2023

Many of Trump’s followers can’t imagine he would say rude things about Netanyahu and good things about Hezbollah, especially given that they only voted for Trump because he toes the Republican line.

But Baier is correct — Trump made the disparaging remarks about Israel’s Prime Minister quite recently, and Baier was only referencing the 2021 comments in order to show viewers that Trump has felt this way ever since Netanyahu refused to get on board with the idea that the 2020 US election was stolen from him.

It’s amazing that there’s anyone left at all who still watches Fox News except the kind of people like Stephanie Young. The network essentially bases every news story it does on what would or would not have happened if Trump were still in charge of the country.

Bret Baier showed a rare bit of integrity Thursday and was even gracious for possibly having “confused” his viewer with Trump statements from different times. If only they’d all adopt the same standard.

McCarthy is such wuss…he refuses to condemn Trump for the Bibi talk…so pathetic. pic.twitter.com/p1PxBUvucb

— Nicole Hickman James (@nicolejames) October 14, 2023