'Jesse Watters celebrated Trump’s calls for revenge. Now, Watters says that the idea that Trump is out for revenge is a hoax.'
Fox News’ Jesse Watters is attempting to fool his audience into believing that former President Donald Trump has no plans for political retribution should he win the 2024 presidential election, despite previously hyping a Trump “revenge tour” and celebrating the former president’s threats to execute Gen. Mark Milley and pull news networks’ broadcast licenses.
Following the lead of his fellow pro-Trump media sycophants, Watters is currently downplaying the former president’s well-documented calls for political retribution in an apparent attempt to undermine the Biden campaign’s characterization of Trump as a would-be authoritarian.
On the June 12 edition of Jesse Watters Primetime, the Fox host declared that Trump’s only retribution plan is “revenge through success,” citing a clip from a June 2 Fox & Friends interview. “Everybody wins, even Trump’s enemies,” Watters claimed.
An over-the-shoulder graphic captioned “revenge hoax” aired throughout a portion of the segment.
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Watters’ attempt to sanitize Trump’s calls for retribution by relying on one soundbite from a friendly interview looks even more disingenuous when compared to what he was telling his Fox News audience last year.
On August 1, after Trump was indicted in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case, the Fox host characterized the imprisonment of Trump’s political enemies as an inevitability: “Don't you think for a second he's not going to unleash hell on all of his political enemies,” Watters asserted. “This is only the beginning of politicians putting other politicians and their families in prison. Sad we had to go down this road, but this is where we are and now we have to finish it.”
Watters escalated the next day, promising his viewers that a Trump win would be the beginning of a “revenge tour” where “he'll be out for blood” and predicting that Trump’s political enemies and their families “will be legally assaulted … everything’s fair game.”