Fox News host Laura Ingraham has decided that this is a good time to distance herself from Donald Trump. In fact, she might not vote for the former president if he runs for reelection in 2024 despite making a living by praising him on the right-wing channel.
During a recent interview with the Northern Virginia Magazine, the right-wing pundit was asked if she’ll support Trump in the next presidential election, should he run.
“I’m not saying I’m there for him yet,” Ingraham said. “But I think whether he runs or not — I mean, his policies worked. Trump’s blueprint for policy — a forward-looking, optimistic set of pro-America policies — that blueprint, without a doubt, is winning.”
Ingraham also told the magazine that “a lot of conservatives were feeling a year ago, you know, completely dejected,” becasue of Trump’s loss in 2020. “I kept saying, ‘I’ve been around for 30 years, doing this in one form or another. There’s always another election, so don’t get too dragged down by the results of one.”
Ingraham’s remarks came as her relationship with Trump has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks following revelations from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Ingraham was one of several high-profile Fox personalities who texted with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the day of the insurrection, pleading with him to get Trump to do something to get his supporters to stop attacking Congress.
Ingraham reportedly texted Meadows that day telling him that Trump needed “to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” saying, “This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”
After her text messages to Meadows were revealed by the committee, Ingraham condemned the violence that broke out at the Capitol but did not blame Trump directly for inciting the mob.
“Both publicly and privately I said what I believe: that the Jan. 6 breach at the Capitol was a terrible thing. Crimes were committed,” Ingraham said on her show last month. “Some people were unfairly hounded and persecuted, but it was not an insurrection. To say anything different is beyond dishonest and it ignores the facts of that day.”
