Fox News host’s response to white supremacist rally leaves ex-GOP lawmaker floored

As dozens of masked men from the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched in the nation’s capital Saturday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham floated a theory in an apparent attempt to distance the GOP from the neo-fascist march, a theory that left one former Republican lawmaker floored.

On Saturday afternoon, journalist and writer Richie McGinniss uploaded a video of himself questioning people who appear to be members of Patriot Front standing in front of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

Despite there being countless reports by reputable news outlets on Patriot Front’s march through the nation’s capital, Ingraham floated a bizarre theory regarding McGinniss’ video.

“I call fake,” reads a social media post on X published Saturday by Ingraham’s account, responding to the video published by McGinniss “Looks more like Antifa in costume. No one should be allowed to cover their faces.”

Adam Kinzinger, a former GOP U.S. House member from Illinois, issued Ingraham a blistering rebuke.

“Yes of course. Fake. That's the only defense you have to this?” Kinzinger wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “How about condemning it?”

Billy Ray, a notable film director and screenwriter, also issued Ingraham a fierce response.

“Laura, why is it so scary for you to admit that this exists amid your party – and your audience?” Ray asked in a social media post published on X Saturday. “If you were an actual journalist, you’d have to.”