Of the numerous MAGA-loving Fox News hosts that the ultra Right-wing network regularly features in their most prime-time spots, just short of Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, we had talking head Laura Ingraham pegged as one of the most devout Trump sycophants Rupert Murdoch’s love child had to offer.
Despite the fact that Ingraham was one of the network’s many mainstream personalities to be busted by the January 6th House Select Committee penning texts to Trump’s then Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, begging him to make Trump make the infamous Capitol riot stop, she was also one of the many to contradict her own closed-door concerns and continue to carelessly spout the ex-president’s bullshit and lies to the American public on her show. All of this would lead anyone with a shred of common sense to their names that Ingraham was pretty damn loyal to Donald Trump and his warpath to power in the US.
But, as it turns out, that may not be the case after all.
In a recent interview with a local Virginia publication, the Fox host inadvertently called her own devotion to the one-term, twice-impeached former president into question when she admitted to the reporter that she’s not entirely “there for him yet” when it comes to voting for Donald Trump should he run for the White House a third time. The question of Laura’s loyalty to Trump was so apparent, in fact, that it led to this brutal headline: “Laura Ingraham Might Not Vote For Trump If He Runs–But She’s Not Going To Stop Talking To His Base.”
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Writing for Northern Virginia Magazine, journalist Kelly Kendall takes a deep dive into the Fox host’s overall life and politics. In her piece, Kendall notes that Ingraham “was among the first commentators, even on Fox News, to champion Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign, sticking by his side even as fellow conservative pundits roundly laughed him off in those early days.”
However, Laura herself told the local reporter regarding potentially supporting the disgraced former president in an additional presidential run come 2024, “I’m not saying I’m there for him yet.”
“But I think whether he runs or not-I mean, his policies worked,” Ingraham went on to note. “Trump’s blueprint for policy-a forward-looking, optimistic set of pro-America policies-that blueprint, without a doubt, is winning.”
Overall, Trump was only mentioned briefly in Kendall’s interview regarding Ingraham’s career and rise to Right-wing media fame as she became the most-watched female host on cable news. But nevertheless, the Fox hosts’ comments regarding the former president were obviously notable enough to make a headline out of.
Ingraham has long been a staunch supporter of now-ex-President Trump and even reportedly served on his unofficial “cable cabinet” that often sat in on official Oval Office meetings during Trump’s time in office.
You can read the full report from Kendall here.
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