Bret Baier talked with his panel Tuesday night about the U.S. releasing 50 million barrels of oil to address rising gas prices, as well as earlier comments from Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
Washington Post writer Charles Lane remarked that the U.S. “did have a president in the previous four years who did quite often what Bill just said, and that was, as he says, a symptom of authoritarianism.”
Back in 2018, Trump told his followers to ignore media coverage of the economy and directly proclaimed, “Just stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news… Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
“Whatever one thinks of Trump, he wasn’t destroying the country in the way that this administration is. Whether you’re talking about the border, whether you’re talking about China, whether you’re talking about the price of oil, I mean, it’s really quite extraordinary what’s going on.”
Lane shot back, “Bill, you said this is authoritarianism, and the last president — the last president inspired a mob, a MOB, to attack the Capitol, Bill!”