Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo Loses It After Guest Makes Obama & Trump Comparison
What To Know
- Fox News host Maria Bartiromo became visibly agitated during an interview with Rep. Ro Khanna.
- Khanna corrected Bartiromo’s claim that Obama “sent Iran money,” explaining it was Iran’s own assets unfrozen as part of the nuclear deal.
- Bartiromo repeatedly interrupted Khanna and insisted that Obama “did nothing” to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Maria Bartiromo became riled up on Friday’s (May 15) edition of Mornings with Maria when Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) pointed out the differences between President Trump and former President Obama when it came to dealing with Iran.
The Fox News anchor was asking Khanna about Trump’s recent visit to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping when she made a comment about Obama “sending Iran money,” referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
During Obama’s presidency, he signed an agreement to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and other provisions, including unfreezing the country’s assets.
Khanna interrupted Bartiromo to point this out, telling her, “Maria, just so we’re factual, he didn’t send them money; it was their money that was unfrozen.”
Bartiromo pressed Khanna on why Obama unfroze the money as she continued to tout Trump’s efforts in stopping Iran from having a nuclear weapon. She also said Obama’s deal didn’t have a commitment to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon, which is factually inaccurate.
“For 15 years, 97% of enriched uranium out!” Khanna fired back. “Instead, what did we get? We ended up having 60% of enriched uranium when Trump tore up the deal! We have 13 American service members dead, we have Americans paying $4 at gas, we have food prices…”
“Obama did nothing,” Bartiromo continued to shout over Khanna.
“Let me just finish, Maria!” he said. “Look at the facts here: because Trump tore up the deal, Americans are dead, Americans are paying more for food, Americans are paying more for gas, the Strait of Hormuz is less secure, and the war is unpopular; 70% of Americans don’t want this war, even Republicans are defecting!”
“Nobody wants war,” Bartiromo responded, adding, “We also don’t want a nuclear terrorist to have a nuclear weapon.”
“And Obama was on the road to achieving that,” Khanna replied.
Bartiromo flipped, saying, “No, no way! He didn’t achieve anything! Obama did squat! Obama did squat!”
You can watch the segment in the video above.
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She's a nutjob. A red-hat zealot.
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And you’re apparently willfully eager to look the other way on terrorism.
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Keep deflecting. The conversation is about a woman not accepting factual truths and having a meltdown. If you can't focus, I recommend your family doctor. Or whatever President Trump tells you to take next, comrade.
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You’re beyond hypocritical RK was Factually incorrect when he said Obama didn’t send Iran $. It was their $ that was unfrozen, AFTER MB Said BO Including Unfreezing their assets… The “assets” WERE IRAN’s 🇮🇷 $… RK insinuated that Maria SAID BO Gave Iran 🇺🇸’s $… she didn’t say that… Maybe you should look in the mirror, comrade
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Democrats refuse to acknowledge Iran cheated, never allowed unfettered Inspections, kept developing nuclear warhead capabilities in secret. They violated every agreement. Iran is responsible for more American deaths thru their road side bombs, Embassy attacks, military installation attacks during the Obama & Biden administrations with no retaliation by those cowardly, incompetent presidents.
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U.S. intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency have assessed that Iran is not currently building a nuclear bomb or developing warhead capabilities. This is agreed upon by US and UK intelligence. They were stockpiling uranium and expanding infrastructure. It is also factually untrue that Iran violated every agreement. I would recommend doing more research on both the war and the agreement, with multiple sources from both sides.
I know this will fall on deaf ears because you are so determined to be a hateful person, but I really do hope you sit down and just educate yourself at a very basic level.
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Republican vs. Democrat. A person working in news is supposed to be unbiased or in other words, neutral.
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Tell that to CNN & MSNOW!
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And OAN and Fox 'News.'
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This what Happens when you interview a biased TDS Democrat.
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