Fox’s Stuart Varney Cheerleads Germany Gunman As A ‘Plus For Donald Trump'
Fox Business host Stuart Varney admitted he knew virtually nothing about the circumstances surrounding a gunman in a movie theater in Germany today. But while speculating that it was a terrorism attack, Varney “asked” guest Monica Crowley, “That is a plus for Donald Trump, isn't it?”
Transcript, lightly edited, via Media Matters:
VARNEY: And again, I'm not going to speculate, but we have seen other incidents like this, both in the United States and in Europe, whether a shooter conducts a mass shooting. We certainly saw that in Paris. We saw that in Orlando. We saw that in San Bernardino. Is this another, somewhat similar, terror-related case? I don't know that. I don't know who the shooter is: his name, nationality, or wherever he came from. I don't know that, but the incident is very similar. Therefore, there could be political repercussions to the shooting that you're seeing on the left-hand side of the screen.
Monica, I don't want -- I'm not going to stretch this, but a terror, if it's a terror incident or an incident of this kind, that's for Trump. That is a plus for Donald Trump, isn't it?