Fox News national security reporter Jennifer Griffin can’t stop at this point.
Respected journalist, who has worked for Fox News since 1996, has recently become known for breaking some of the right-wing narratives on the Ukraine crisis while on Fox airwaves, learning her network colleagues in the process. She once again found herself in that position on Sunday night.
Before bringing in Griffin to discuss her insights about Latest developments on Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Fox News host Trey Gowdy gave an interview to Ret. Colonel Douglas MacGregor, a Trump’s former military adviser, about Russia’s growing aggression. Fox News frequent guest, who previously supported Russia’s annexation of Crimealargely defended the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin while criticizing both NATO and the United States.
“We are imposing on him things that he does not want to do in our usual attempt to destroy him and his country,” MacGregor stated before saying that we “need to remember.” ” that Ukraine has a history of political corruption.
After MacGregror suggested that the US should stop punishing Russia and provide military aid to Ukraine, Gowdy asked the former army officer if he believed Russia should be allowed to take any part of Ukraine it wanted. or not.
“Yes. Sure,” MacGregor announced. , the population there is indistinguishable from their own population”.
Moments later, Griffin opens up a lengthy reveal of MacGregor’s Kremlin-friendly analysis.
“I feel like I need to correct some of what Colonel Douglas MacGregor said, and I’m not sure 10 minutes is enough time to do so because there’s so much distortion in what he just said,” he said. The veteran reporter candidly stated, adding that MacGregor was like an “apologist” for Putin.
“I think the world has seen what Putin can do,” she continued. “To blame NATO membership for what we have seen Putin roll out, we have seen his own words that he is speaking under mocking terms, from the perspective of 19th century about imperial Russia, so what he just said was so distorted that I felt our audience needed to know the truth. ”
Griffin further explained that she has long followed Putin’s rise throughout her career, pointing out how she got her start at Fox News by working out of the Moscow office. Adding that the Russian leader had been laying the groundwork for imperial expansion for decades, she later brought MacGregor’s private file to the Trump administration.
“The kind of comforting talk that Colonel MacGregor, who should have known better — while in government, he was the one who advised Trump to pull all the troops out of Germany,” Griffin said. “That forecast of weakness is what makes Putin think he can move to a sovereign country like Ukraine.”
For his part, Gowdy said he was “surprised” by MacGregor’s comment and that he found “the take on it wonderful and disappointing”.
Hours earlier, during an appearance on the Fox News media analysis program MediaBuzz, Griffin asked by host Howard Kurtz about the attention she has attracted recently for pushing back some of her colleagues’ absurd talking points about Ukraine.
“I reported. I’ve been a part of the news department since those early days,” she asserts. “I am here to check the facts, because I report the facts. And my job is to try to find out the truth as best as I know. I share those facts internally so our network can be more accurate. That’s what I’ve always done.”
