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]]>New York Post columnist Miranda Devine said on Wednesday that Food Network host John Henson “should be ashamed of himself for targeting” President Trump’s 14-year-old son Barron in a tweet over the weekend.
“You may hate President Trump, but don’t attack his child, his teenage son,” Devine told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday.
Devine was reacting to a Father’s Day tweet where Henson reportedly questioned whether President Trump is Barron’s father. In a tweet, which has since been deleted, The Daily Wire reported that the television host and stand-up comic, wrote, “I hope Barron [Trump] gets to spend today with whoever his dad is.”
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“It’s utterly despicable that a Food Network host would use Father’s Day to target a child, a 14-year-old boy who has done nothing wrong,” Devine said on Wednesday. “He has no choice about who his family is.”
Melania Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said Henson’s comments about Barron were “inappropriate and insensitive,” according to a statement to the Daily Caller.
“Sadly we continue to see inappropriate and insensitive comments about the President’s son [Barron Trump]. As with every other Administration, a minor child should be off-limits and allowed to grow up with no judgment or hate from strangers and the media,” she said.
Devine said that “We’ve seen a pattern of this,” adding that “the first lady is famously very protective of Barron Trump.”
Devine pointed to an incident last December where Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan, who testified during the impeachment hearing, used Barron Trump’s name to illustrate her point that President Trump can’t rule like a king.
“The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” Karlan said in the committee room, prompting chuckles across the room.
“A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics,” the first lady tweeted in response. “Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.”
Karlan apologized for the remark, but not without making another dig at the president.
“I want to apologize for what I said earlier about the president’s son. It was wrong of me to do that,” Karlan said during the hearing. “I wish the president would apologize for the things that he’s done that’s wrong, but I do regret having said that.”
Devine noted that Karlan “ended up having to apologize because she was embarrassed, but it is disgusting.”
Host Brian Kilmeade asked Devine if the fact that Henson is a comedian gives “him cover.”
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“He’s a Food Network host and no one is going to put him in jail for making a really nasty joke, but he should be ashamed of himself for targeting a child,” she said in response.
Fox News’ Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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Pro-Trump cable news channel One America News has pulled a report based on a poll showing unfavorable numbers for the president that it had hoped would serve as a counterweight to a flurry of recent polls showing Biden leading the presidential race by wide margins.
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KEY FACTS
OANN founder Robert Herring on Wednesday tweeted that “later today, OANN will be releasing a poll concerning the presidential race,” which he said “looks as though it will be in favor of Donald Trump.”
The poll was conducted by Gravis Marketing and showed Biden and Trump tied in Florida, 50% to 50%, with Trump leading among undecided voters by 6 points, 53% to 47%.
The poll was presented as positive for Trump by OANN reporter Kristian Rouz, who said it showed “rising support” and framed it as a contradiction to most polls of the Sunshine State, which show Biden leading.
But, as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump pointed out, the poll pushed undecided voters to commit to a candidate, meaning that, to get to 50% for each candidate, Biden must have been leading among decided voters, a stat that was not presented in OANN’s report.
Journalist Arieh Kovler noted that shortly after OANN’s report was posted to YouTube, it was deleted, while a tweet from Herring announcing the poll was also deleted.
Key Background
Trump has been mired in sagging poll numbers in recent weeks as the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest have gripped the nation. Biden leads by 8 points in the RealClearPolitics average, his largest margin since November. A recent CNN poll also showed Trump trailing Biden by a staggering 14 point margin, which the Trump campaign pushed back on in a letter to CNN in which they demanded a retraction and an apology.
Big Number
3.4%. Biden leads in Florida by 3.4% in the RealClearPolitics average. He also leads by 3.4% in Wisconsin, 3.3% in Pennsylvania, 7.3% in Michigan, and 3.4% in Arizona, which has only voted Democratic once in the last 70 years.
News Peg
Trump’s poll numbers show that he has been significantly damaged by his coronavirus response, damage that was exacerbated to his response to the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. A recent Reuters poll found that just 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s handling of the recent unrest.
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A patient is moved by healthcare workers at Maimonides Medical Center, Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in New York during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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UPDATED 1:28 PM PT — Thursday, May 7, 2020
A new study has suggested New Yorkers could be the cause of a second wave of coronavirus outbreaks.
According to the New York Times Thursday, researchers who track the genetic makeup of the virus have said the high number of cases in the U.S. comes from domestic spread.
Researchers believe many New Yorkers fled the Big Apple in March after news broke about a mandatory shutdown in the city. According to a scientist from the Yale School of Public Health, between 60 and 65 percent of all cases in the U.S. can be traced back to New York.
City leaders had come under fire in recent months for not taking action sooner. Some argue that had those protective measures been enacted earlier, the spread of the virus could have been less severe.
People wear masks and maintain social distance to help stop the spread of new coronavirus, while waiting in line to enter a store on 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, a Brooklyn neighborhood with one of the city’s largest Mexican and Hispanic communities, Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
The report also analyzed cell phone data from several coronavirus hotspots around the nation, which showed a rise of cases in areas that saw an influx in visitors from New York. Meanwhile, state officials have yet to speak out on these findings.
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