Smith, Chris Giglio, said “there is absolutely no truth” to a connection between the two events. Trump’s attorney general, William Barr.Ī spokesman for Mr. Trump had orchestrated the departure of his least-favorite Fox News anchor through a private meeting this week between Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who controls the network, and Mr. In a farewell statement, Jay Wallace, the network’s president and executive editor, called the anchor’s exit “especially difficult.” “I’ll miss them and our time together greatly.” “I’ve worked with the most talented, dedicated and focused professionals I’ve ever known,” Mr. On Friday, in public at least, all parties played down any difficulties. Smith had been considering an exit from Fox News for several weeks, the people said. Smith, 55, who was dismayed at the disconnect between some of the pro-Trump cheerleading in prime-time and the reporting produced by the network’s newsroom, according to two people close to the anchor who requested anonymity to share his private observations. Smith on-air, a rare moment of intramural discord bursting into public view. Smith on Twitter as the network’s “lowest-rated anchor.” Other Fox News personalities were also unimpressed: Last month, Mr. Subscribe now.His pointed comments, closer in tone to that of CNN anchors like Anderson Cooper than of Fox News mainstays like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, irked Mr. Stay informed and gain unlimited access to the Daily Beast's unmatched reporting. Get the Daily Beast's biggest scoops and scandals delivered right to your inbox. Roberts and his co-anchor Sandra Smith, meanwhile, took a brief pause before thanking Cotton for joining them and ending the interview. I don’t think she should be on the Supreme Court.” He added: “Again, these are not American citizens entitled to due process in a court of law, they are foreign terrorists in three cases she voluntarily advocated for in which she accused American soldiers of being war criminals. “No, John, in three separate cases she was representing not American citizens charged with a crime entitled to due process and the Constitution foreign territories who had committed acts of violence against Americans,” Cotton insisted. So you don’t think it was a bridge too far to make the link with Nuremberg and Nazis?” Roberts shot back. “Frankly, I have no patience for it,” the senator groused. Additionally, he took issue with her advocacy on behalf of her clients before the courts when she represented them. “This really is a matter of due process, and I’m wondering, why make that link between Judge Jackson and the Nazis and the Nuremberg trial?”Ĭotton noted that while Jackson was assigned those cases while she was a public defender, she continued to represent one of those cases after she moved to private practice. She did not get to pick and choose her clients,” Roberts said during Fox News’ America Reports.

“Again, she was in the federal public defenders’ office. The potential GOP presidential candidate, who has appeared on Fox News hundreds of times since early 2021, was placed in the atypical position of defending himself on the network’s airwaves when Roberts repeatedly confronted him on Wednesday afternoon. The Anti-Defamation League, for instance, called his comments “reprehensible” and “absolutely shameful” while demanding that he “stop trivializing the Holocaust for political gain.” This Judge Jackson might've gone there to defend them.”Ĭotton’s remarks were immediately met with criticism and condemnation. “You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis.

“Judge Jackson has also shown real interest in helping terrorists,” the senator sneered on Tuesday.

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