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She’s conscionable rage-baiting us, right? …Right? On Saturday, Fox News big Laura Ingraham was swiftly called retired by critics connected X aft making 2 genuinely bonkers claims astir a video featuring masked members of the achromatic nationalist radical Patriot Front.
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Although hundreds of members of Patriot Front marched passim parts of the superior connected July Fourth, Reuters reports, the video that Ingraham responded to doesn’t look to person been changeable connected Saturday. Rather, it seems to person been filmed past twelvemonth and was reposted by an X idiosyncratic connected Saturday who wanted to connection immoderate discourse connected the group’s mentality.
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“For anyone wondering however these larping losers think, past twelvemonth I interviewed their person Thomas Rousseau (after chirping them for their ‘face diapers’),” the X idiosyncratic wrote.
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The video past proceeds to amusement Rousseau making wildly racist comments arsenic he’s backed by soundless and masked members of his group.
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“I telephone fake. Looks much similar Antifa successful costume. No 1 should beryllium allowed to screen their faces,” Ingraham wrote successful effect to the year-old video connected Saturday.
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Ingraham’s stale assertion that the masked men were antifa, oregon anti-fascists, however, tin rapidly beryllium dismissed.
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In January 2025, The Associated Press published photos from D.C. that diagnostic the masked members of Patriot Front toting the aforesaid emblem successful beforehand of the Washington Monument and Rousseau wearing the aforesaid outfit.
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Yet, it was the second portion of her connection — successful which Ingraham declared that “no 1 should beryllium allowed to screen their faces” — that truly irked critics connected societal media.
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Many were speedy to punctual Ingraham that galore Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents screen their full faces during raids and portion interacting with the public, particularly astatine anti-ICE protests.
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“I hold with Laura Ingraham. No 1 should beryllium capable to screen their faces. Let’s commencement with ICE,” journalist Danny Krikorian said alongside an representation of masked ICE agents.
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“When you’re truthful embarrassed by your ain squad that you person to unreal it’s the different team,” writer John Harwood echoed successful response.
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Other users besides piled connected Ingraham:
So present this is Antifa? This is your side, Laura. This is your people. Own it. These are the patriots that you guys represent.
— DN (@Yousavewithus) July 4, 2026@Yousavewithus / Via x.com
Racist groups are famously known for ne'er covering their faces.
— Gary Peterson 🇺🇸 (@GaryPetersonUSA) July 4, 2026@GaryPetersonUSA / Via x.com
You made them Laura.
You should admit the fruits of your labor.
I anticipation your kids are truthful precise arrogant of you.
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it’s not Antifa. We person the Holiday off
— connor (@ConnorEatsPants) July 4, 2026@ConnorEatsPants / Via x.com
Footage of Patriot Front descending connected D.C. connected Saturday is well-documented connected X, with Reuters publishing 1 haunting photo that’s gone viral. The photo, changeable by Cheney Orr, shows masked members of Patriot Front crammed into a D.C. Metro bid arsenic a Black pistillate stares wide-eyed into the distance.
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This nonfiction primitively appeared connected HuffPost.
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