Fox News hosts attack impeachment witness for drinking too much water
Laura Ingraham at one point suggests she thought a water bottle was an 'oxygen chamber'
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Your support makes all the difference.After a day of public testimony in which Americans were told directly by top officials that Donald Trump attempted to coerce the president of Ukraine into digging up dirt on a political rival, the political punditry in the United States had plenty to work with — yet Fox News attacked one of the witnesses for drinking too much water.
Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo led the charge during an appearance on the Ingraham Angle, a weeknight talk show hosted by Laura Ingraham.
For a portion of the show in question, they chose to hone in on George Kent, a top State Department official to Ukraine, who had brought a large blue water bottle to the hearings.
“He drank a lot of water, Laura. I mean, fish are not this hydrated,” Arroyo said as footage of Mr Kent drinking water played. “Look, he’s — he’s always taking slugs — look, throughout the hearing, he took slugs of this thing.”
“What is this, is he on the treadmill? What is this with the water?” Ingraham replied, apparently exasperated by Mr Kent’s hydration routine. Then, with a red circle drawn around the bottle as if it were incriminating evidence, she continued: “Do you guys see that?”
Arroyo certainly did see it.
“It’s amazing,” he added. “It was like a medical sized water tower… A water silo.”
Then Ingraham decided to take it a step further, and suggested that she “thought had hid an oxygen chamber or something.”
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