Fox News’ anchor Chris Wallace praised Bill Clinton for his speech during the second night of the Democratic National Convention, saying he felt the former president presented a “cogent argument” about how President Donald Trump has mishandled the COVID-19 crisis.
“I want to talk about Bill Clinton,” Wallace said. “He has been a major part of every Democratic convention since 1988.”
Bill Clinton: "Denying, distracting and demeaning works great if you're trying to entertain or inflame. But in a real crisis it collapses like a house of cards. COVID just doesn't respond to any of that. To beat it, you've got to actually go to work." https://t.co/g2aifw44ZR pic.twitter.com/FZwEEafCrE
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Wallace praises Clinton to the hilt
“I remember on the floor he gave an endless nomination speech for Michael Dukakis,” Wallace continued. “When he finished, in conclusion, the place erupted in cheers because people were so bored with the speech he gave. I remember in 2012 him giving a speech that made a better case for Barack Obama than Barack Obama did.”
Don't tell Trump this, but Chris Wallace was on Fox News praising the heck out of Bill Clinton's speech.
Or rather, tell him. @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/0LdrgpoNr0
— Hillary Warned Us (@HillaryWarnedUs) August 19, 2020
Obama called former President Clinton ‘secretary of explaining things’ in 2012
“Tonight, he was consigned to a much smaller role, a pre-taped, five-minute speech,” Wallace said. “Of course, things have changed for Bill Clinton and his standing in the party. The MeToo Movement, people looking back at the Monica Lewinsky scandal in a different way, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, it seems to be a much more diminished figure until he gave his speech.”
“It was only 5 minutes, as I say it was pre-taped, but I thought he made a cogent argument from his point of view about how Donald Trump has mishandled the coronavirus than any I’ve heard from anybody,” Wallace insisted.
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“After the 2012 speech, Barack Obama called him the secretary of explaining things, and even today, even in this diminished role, Bill Clinton is still the secretary of explaining things” Wallace ended.
Chris Wallace also had a very favorable reaction to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech criticizing President Trump on night one of the Democratic National Convention Monday night.
Here is how Fox News anchor Chris Wallace reacted to #MichelleObama speech last night #DNCConvention #DNC2020 pic.twitter.com/Ku3z5YCVWN
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