Fox Business anchor accuses mother whose children were tear-gassed by Border Patrol of child abuse

Dagen McDowell: I look at “that horrible photo of the mother and her two children, and I see child abuse. ... That's the choice that the parents make, quite frankly.”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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From the November 26 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered:

ADRIENNE ELROD (FORMER CLINTON CAMPAIGN STAFFER): I think here the optics look terrible for President Trump in part because of the New York Post cover that you just cited, Melissa, that literally had the mother and her two children wearing diapers with tear gas being thrown at them. This is not something -- this is not what America feels like.

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DAGEN MCDOWELL (FOX BUSINESS ANCHOR): Personally, I look at a photo -- that horrible photo of the mother and her two children, and I see child abuse. So, again, if you are an American who believes in personal responsibility, that's the choice that the parents make, quite frankly.

Previously:

Fox contributor Tom Homan: Media outlets are “playing the game” by showing pictures of women and children teargassed by CBP

Fox & Friends guest defends use of pepper spray on migrant caravan: “It's natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.” 

Fox's Newt Gingrich: “This war on the border is real”