Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade said that former President Donald Trump needed to “learn to lose” regarding the results of the 2020 election in an appearance on Media Buzz with host Howie Kurtz.
To introduce his colleague, Kurtz noted that “at the heart of the outraged media coverage of January 6 is Donald Trump’s insistence — we sometimes get several statements a day from him — that he he did not lose the election. You have some thoughts about that.”
“Yeah, I do,” Kilmeade replied. “I think that in life, you have to learn to lose. Hillary Clinton has to learn that. You know, Al Gore pretty much did learn that. Stacey Abrams didn’t learn that.”
“And if you did, in fact, get screwed out of this election, put together an A-team list of lawyers — not the ones we witnessed — and show us the districts and show us how,” Kilmeade continued, obliquely referring to the dozens and dozens of lawsuits that Trump lost in state and federal courts across the country. “I have not seen any of that.”
“And people were very receptive,” the Fox & Friends co-host said, noting the skepticism on the right that Joe Biden could win, and citing the history of how Andrew Jackson had “lost a controversial election despite winning the popular vote,” and then cut a deal to become secretary of state, and then “goes and wins the next two elections and becomes more powerful.”
“In life, we have to learn to lose, Democrats and Republicans,” said Kilmeade.
“Is it anti-Trump by the media to report the fact that there is no significant evidence of widespread fraud?” asked Kurtz.
“It isn’t,” Kilmeade replied, also agreeing with Kurtz that Trump’s “re-litigating 2020 is not helping the country.”
As Kurtz mentioned, this was not the first time Kilmeade has made such comments on air. On Friday’s episode of Fox & Friends, he implored his viewers to accept the election results, and specifically called out Trump’s baseless election fraud claims. “That doesn’t help the country,” he said.
He’s right — it doesn’t help the country. But does tRump care? Hell no! All he cares about is himself!
(And if one reads between the lines, there are several reasons BEYOND his ego that play a role in what he’s doing.)
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Hello Nan. But the interesting thing is Kilmeade the fox and friends host most fervent believer / spreader of the maga truth called out tRump. That shows there is a lot of pressure to move away from tRump from the upper money people. tRump is losing his grip on the maga and the powerful Republican leaders want to push tRump aside publicly. I think Kilmeade calling out trump publicly even a month ago would have been unthinkable. It took tRump getting booed at his own rallies, doing a tour that hardly anyone showed up at. Too many are openly talking of running again like Ted Cruz. DeathSantis is raking in tons of fund raising cash while running advertisements saying Florida is open for business come see us. I think this is a good sign for getting rid of tRump and a bad sign that the Republican sharks are circling in the water. Scottie
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