Fox News personalities suggested Donald Trump and his family members need to think twice about flaunting their wealth ― especially when so many Americans are struggling at the gas station and the grocery store.
In a recent segment on Bret Baier’s “Special Report,” Baier pointed to a Fox News poll showing that 55% of respondents said government corruption was a “crucial” factor in how they would vote for Congress, while 36% cited it as a “major factor.”
Baier told viewers that it was “a massive number, if you think about it,” and Fox News analyst Brit Hume agreed.
“We saw 9 in 10 people essentially say this was important or a factor,” Baier shared.
Hume agreed with the anchor’s take, and pointed out Trump’s growing wealth as a potential problem for voters.
“Well, when times are tough ― and we’re going through an economic transformation of an extraordinary degree ― and prices are high, even though jobs are plentiful, people are hurting, and that was a big issue in the election,” Hume said.
“They look at Washington, and they see the president, apparently a rich man to begin with and never afraid to talk about how rich he was and is, suddenly several billion dollars richer, according to Forbes magazine,” Hume said.
“They see his sons involved in cryptocurrency businesses that are netting them a large amount of money, and they don’t like the looks of that,” he added.
As HuffPost has reported, Democrats’ blue wave success was likely partly due to their efforts to focus on government corruption, including the president’s plane from Qatar and his $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency earnings.
“The issue is front-and-center because the administration has made it front-and-center,” Brian Lemek, executive director of Defend The Vote, told HuffPost. Defend the Vote has urged Democrats to draw a connection between government corruption and the rising cost of living.
“They’ve effectively brought the realities of corruption to the masses,” Lemek added.