Fox News personalities cried foul after reports said President Joe Biden would warn of Russian interference in U.S. elections.
On Wednesday, Fox News host Harris Faulkner confirmed that Biden intended to address Russia's "sustained effort" to influence the 2024 presidential election by using state-run media.
"Why is that suddenly a concern now?" Faulkner complained to Fox News contributor Steve Hilton.
"That's the truth about all of this in this world that we live in today, which is you have Iran doing this, you have China doing this, and frankly, we do it to other countries as well," Hilton replied, dismissing the concerns.
Hilton insisted that the Biden-Harris administration was making the announcement "because they know that plays to their base."
"I don't know the specific details," he admitted.
Hilton said that similar warnings about Russia's influence in the 2016 election amounted to "total lies and disinformation."
"So, I'm not saying there's nothing to this, but we know that everybody does it," he scoffed.
Faulkner complained that former intelligence officials had discounted "the Hunter Biden laptop" as possible Russian disinformation.
Instead of focusing on Russia, Hilton cast doubt on American law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
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"Because of the way that they've behaved, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, all these people over the years, we now know, totally biased and in the tank and trying to both stop Trump from being elected and once he was elected to undermine his administration," he said. "That means that we no longer trust them."
"We do not trust any of these people or any of these institutions because we know that they've been completely corrupted, and that's the real tragedy of all of this," he added. "We cannot trust them."
