NCS NewsNight with Abby Phillip bought tense on Tuesday (November 18) after MAGA political commentator Scott Jennings felt he was being accused of constructing a “racial” remark in direction of a fellow panelist.
On Tuesday’s present, Phillip was joined by Jennings, Lydia Moynihan, Tezlyn Figaro, pollster Josh Doss, and The Black List founder Franklin Leonard to focus on the continuing drama surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files. The debate heated up because the panel mentioned whether or not the recordsdata may incriminate President Donald Trump.
“You think after ten years of public life, you wouldn’t know it already?” Jennings requested Leonard with regard to proof of Trump’s potential wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
“No, I don’t. That’s exactly the point,” Leonard fired again.
“Oh my goodness,” Jennings retorted. “This is an IQ test. Don’t fail it. Come on, man. Ten years, Donald Trump has been in public life.”
Phillip jumped in to defend Leonard, saying, “Scott, it is an IQ test. I mean, for ten years, we haven’t heard any names. So, you really think that no one’s involved?… They would be prosecuted. It would be done and dusted. The last ten years, no one has been prosecuted for this. Is that a sign that nothing has happened?”
Jennings turned the eye again to Leonard, stating, “My question directly to him is, if you think after ten years, three presidential campaigns, and Democrats unleashing holy hell on him, you wouldn’t know about [it].”
As the talk raged on, Doss returned to the “IQ” remark Jennings made in direction of Leonard. “Just real quick, I just want to bring it back to something that just happened. I feel like I just heard Scott calling into question this Black man’s intelligence with the IQ test,” he stated. “I feel like I heard that… so I just want to say something.”
An incredulous Jennings shook his head, including, “You want to make it racial, go ahead, but it’s ridiculous.”
As Doss tried to clarify himself, Jennings interrupted, saying, “By the way, we know each other and we’re friends. I know this man. He’s a smart guy and we’re having a debate.”
“I would love to finish what I’m saying,” Doss replied.
Jennings hit again, “Don’t make it into something. We don’t even know each other.”
“This actually relates back to the topic that we’re having, Scott,” Doss continued. “You are sitting here with so much confidence without seeing all of the documents that Donald Trump is innocent.”
Doss added that as a Black man, there tends to be a “presumption of guilt,” whereas Trump has navigated this case “with the presumption of innocence that is never, never afforded to us, right?”
“This is the same guy that is trailing 29 rape allegations, and we have videos of him saying things like, grab him by the, you know what. Just the very fact that he’s connected, documented, connected to the country’s most egregious pedophile… that fact alone is enough for us to ask questions about if it’s a disqualifying factor for leadership.”
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