Multiple NCS commentators this week have accused the community’s go-to Donald Trump defender, Scott Jennings, of taking part in up his loyalty on-air, with one claiming the conservative pundit is just “brave enough to speak out… in the green room.”
Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor accused Jennings, who routinely defends Trump’s policies, in a Tuesday X post of being “a pundit who mocks Trump with us during commercial breaks — but fawns over Trump when the camera is rolling.” In doing so, Taylor wrote, Jennings was “a perfect metaphor for the GOP.”
The declare got here after Taylor — a Trump 1.0 official turned critic — and Jennings obtained into a heated on-air debate throughout Monday’s “NewsNight with Abby Phillip” over the White House’s messaging of the battle in Iran.
The subsequent day, Jennings blasted Taylor’s declare that he had spoken to individuals within the Middle East who disapproved of Trump’s shifting targets within the battle, prompting Taylor to ask him whether or not he leaked confidential conversations with Trump himself on air.
A NCS spokesperson didn’t touch upon the accusations. Jennings didn’t reply to a right away request for remark.
New York Post reporter Lydia Moynihan got here to Jennings’ protection on Tuesday, arguing on X that he was “a man of his convictions and his political beliefs are completely sincere, genuine, and deeply rooted in what he believes is best for American.”
But that protection, too, was rebutted by Jennings’ opponents.
“You can’t be serious can you?” former House Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) replied on X.
“I have been on NCS many times and I can tell you they’re not,” author Akilah Hughes wrote on X.
Still, Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky, who claimed she was banned from NCS over speaking out about Jennings in January, wrote on Thursday that Jennings additionally “trashed Trump in the green room repeatedly in front of me.” She stated her account corroborated Taylor’s and NCS commentator Joe Walsh’s, who accused Jennings final month of “playing a role” and saying “things he doesn’t believe.” (A NCS spokesperson denied Roginsky was banned and stated she was welcome on the community.)
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