Fox News’s Howard Kurtz quickly shut down former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s suggestion that Hillary Clinton didn’t admit that she lost the 2016 presidential election on MediaBuzz Sunday.
Kurtz first brought up the former Democratic nominee by noting that she recently speculated that Donald Trump admires Russian dictator Vladimir Putin because “Putin does what Trump would like to do: Kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists and others into exile.”
“What do you think of the former presidential candidate’s remarks?” the host asked McCarthy.
“I think she’s upset that she lost, but also let’s think about what she said. She said Putin drives the opponent away. What are they doing to President Trump today? They put him on trial. And let me ask everybody in America, does anybody in America believe President Trump would be on trial today if he wasn’t running for president? Nobody believes that,” replied McCarthy. “What did they try to do? They tried to remove …
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