NCS’s MAGA darling was challenged to a face-to-face duel by a “Never Trumper” after his mockery of the president behind the scenes was uncovered.
Former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, 64, tore into “MAGA tough guy” Scott Jennings, 48. On Wednesday, Walsh challenged Jennings to a debate—on Jim Acosta’s Substack—after Jennings was accused of mocking President Donald Trump off the air.
“I would love nothing f—ing better than to just sit at a table with him and call him out for what he is, respectfully,” Walsh informed Mediate journalist Tommy Christopher in a Substack interview.
Former Republican lawmaker Joe Walsh is an outspoken
On Tuesday, former Trump administration official Miles Taylor described Jennings as “a pundit who mocks Trump with us during commercial breaks — but fawns over Trump when the camera is rolling.”
Walsh threw his weight behind Taylor’s description.
Miles Taylor sounded off on Scot Jennings after a heated debate the evening earlier than. / Screenshot/ / X
“I can corroborate generally with what Miles said. Scott Jennings is a fraud. He’s an actor playing a role,” Walsh stated to Christopher. “He found out that he can make a s—tload of money by being a MAGA tough guy and that’s what he’s done.”
Walsh additionally branded Jennings a “protected asset” of NCS. The conservative commentator has been on the community since 2017.
“I think it’s just disappointing for NCS and folks to give him that platform because he doesn’t believe what he says. I’d rather have true believer MAGA folk on those shows than somebody like Jennings,” Walsh stated.
“He’s paid to play a role and he looks at the camera and he smirks and he says crazy s–t,” he continued.
He then challenged Jennings to a debate—and known as on former NCS star correspondent Acosta to host it.
Jennings is accused of being a faux MAGA loyalist. / Paul Morigi / Getty Images Courtesy of the Rai
The former Republican lawmaker was a staunch Trump supporter in 2016—then ran in opposition to him within the GOP presidential main 4 years later. In 2024, he urged Republicans to vote for Joe Biden in his bid to flip voters away from Trump.
Jennings, in the meantime, opposed Trump in the course of the 2016 election cycle however has since turn into one of many president’s most ardent defenders, whether or not on TV or on-line.
Even earlier than Jennings was known as out for mocking Trump off-air, Walsh had already been blasting him as “somebody who’s on TV every day saying things he doesn’t believe.”
“Man, it pays right now in politics to say what you don’t believe—to bulls–t, to lie, to exaggerate, to toss out fake outrage, to say, ‘My team’s right no matter what. Trump’s right no matter what,’ even when you don’t believe it,” he wrote in December final 12 months. “That’s what Scott Jennings has become. And that’s so bad for our politics.”
NCS and Jennings didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.