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Fox News Host Says That Rich Trumpers Wilbur Ross and Woody Johnson are Black People

Stop. Just stop.

Apparently, Fox News is now just a stream of consciousness for its’ hosts.

How else could you explain this insane exchange between host Harris Faulkner — a black woman — and Kayleigh McEnany, describing a number of quite non-black people as black?

Honestly, I think it points to the fact that the participants in Fox’s charade of being “news” do absolutely no research before they’re on set.

But each of the people listed in Faulkner’s mini-diatribe is decidedly not black. Like, just a simple Google search of just the names would have prevented her from looking like a total idiot.

During a discussion about a recent Trump fundraiser that apparently made the adjudicated rapist a bunch of money for his reelection campaign, Faulkner and McEnany took umbrage with the characterization that the Biden campaign gave of the event.

Biden’s comms director, Michael Tyler, very correctly described the attendants as billionaires and racists who simply want Trump to take power again so he can cut their taxes. And apparently it was the word “racist” that triggered the conservative hosts.

McEnany: The talking points were lies. Who was the racist that was there? The people at the fundraiser — Tim Scott was there, Vivek Ramaswamy, Woody Johnson, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Steve Wynn…

Faulkner: I want to say this. So they bring out the Black surrogate to talk about racism because, apparently, the people that you just listed on that list, they’re all Black but they’re not Democrats.

Kayleigh: Not Democrats.

Faulkner: There you go, that’s what he is saying.

Okay, maybe I’m not being fair. One of the people listed in that conversation actually is a black man. But everyone knows who he is automatically — he’s one of the only black Republicans in the whole of government, as the singular black Republican Senator, during a time that there are only five black Republican members of the House.

And in fairness, Ramaswamy is pretty dark brown. But the name should be a giveaway as to which country his people got brown in. That’s another continent, Harris.

But Woody Johnson, the owner of the New York Jets? He’s as white as I am, and I’m so white I’m blue. Wilbur Ross? He’s been super-DUPER white for 86 years.

And Steve Wynn? The casino guy who was accused of rape 6 years ago who is as white as the background of the page you’re looking at while reading this?

Give me a break.

You can disagree with the characterization, but everyone listed is absolutely a racist, and you don’t even know their races.

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