Less than a week before the invasion, The Five co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Kennedy picked the wrong time to float conspiracy theories about Russia’s massive military buildup around Ukraine.
“There’s something else going on here that is – that feels very, very manufactured,” said Gutfeld. “And I don’t know what it is.”
“Jake Sullivan is the national security adviser,” she continued. “And he is in deep yogurt in the Durham probe, and he’s been the one saying, ‘We have so much intelligence an invasion is imminent.’ He said that last Friday. It’s the next Friday, here we are. I don’t think Putin is going to invade.”
Soon after, Griffin joined live from the Pentagon and set the record straight.
“First of all, I need to level set with the conversation I’ve just been listening to,” she began. “What we are witnessing right now is not something that’s changed in the last 24 hours. If you go back to notes that I’ve been sending out for the last two weeks, this is something we’ve been watching in terms of you–have commercial satellite imagery, you have the buildup of forces, the type of forces, the numbers of forces, things that we’ve been told in advance to look for in terms of some of the disinformation that is already starting to appear, the false flag operations in the Donbas region. All of that is ticking up.”
Griffin added, “I’ve heard comparisons to the Iraq war, and WMD, and how do we know? We’re seeing it with our own eyes.”