Pete Hegseth Argues Biden Is Scared of Fox’s Coverage of Border: Trying to Avoid ‘Bill Melugin and Griff Jenkins’ With ‘Crowds of Illegals’

Fox News’ Pete Hegseth argued that President Joe Biden is scared of the network’s coverage of the crisis at the southern border on Outnumbered Tuesday, contending that Biden was only signing executive orders related to the issues to avoid politically damaging reporting.

Hegseth weighed in after host Kayleigh McEnany made note of several polls indicating that Americans view immigration as a priority going into the 2024 presidential election.

“‘An open-ended Gallup poll released on April 30, found that for the third straight month, most Americans cited immigration as the most important problem facing the United States.’ Listen to this: ‘That was the longest stretch that the issue had topped the list in the survey’s 24-year history,'” said McEnany, reading from The New York Times. “This is why Biden’s doing this.”

“Yeah, it’s all politics. The timing’s all politics,” began Hegseth. “And ultimately, obviously, it’s not going to work either if you look at the nuts and bolts of this policy. What he’s trying to avoid is Bill Melugin and Griff Jenkins at the border with crowds of illegals behind him through the summer as we’re going through conventions and into debates. That’s it! That’s all this is about!”

He continued:

Because if they actually cared about the border, they would have done this at any moment over the course of the last three and a half years. That’s simply what this is. [Senator John] Kennedy is right, it’s incredibly cynical. But people are smart and they realize what it’s about. They won’t give him any credit. They won’t blame Donald Trump. It may fade from the headlines — and that’s all the White House wants, they want it fading from the headlines — but they know who’s right on this and who’s wrong. And it’s certainly not Joe Biden.

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