Fox anchor asks if magistrate judge in the White House correspondents dinner shooting is “becoming an assassin apologist”
Harris Faulkner: “Does he open the door for us to take a close look at every single decision he makes perhaps closer for him because of the decisions and actions that he's made in the past?”
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From the May 5, 2026, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
HARRIS FAULKNER (FOX NEWS ANCHOR): If you want to be wedded to DEI for moving up in the American society, I guess that's your option. The problem with it is though, that's kind of the prism that you start to see him approach everything. So you've got a man before you, two, because you pointed out the previous assassin that he apologized to, or suspected assassin. But is this person becoming an assassin apologist at this point, would be my question. Because it's not just about the suicide watch. It's about the vegan meal theory. And he said well if we can get you a vegan meal, we can get you a Bible. Nothing wrong with that, you find prayer a lot of times behind bars. We know that that's true. Not poking any fun with what this guy's asking for.
But is it the judge's, this magistrate judge, is it his responsibility to apologize? And I think he's acting on behalf of all of us as he roots out crime and adjudicates from the bench. Does he speak for all of us when he apologizes to a suspected would-be assassin? I guess that's a question people will have to ask. Does he open the door for us to take a close look at every single decision he makes perhaps closer for him because of the decisions and actions that he's made in the past, which are clouded by his own personal prism and views of the world. Their navels. We all have one. We all have an opinion. I get it. From the bench, I thought, well I thought justice was blind.