Fox Information Channel introduced on Monday that the weekday time slot beforehand held by anchor Neil Cavuto, who had expressed some gentle criticism of Donald Trump through the years, could be taken over by conservative commentator Will Cain. Cain has promoted right-wing conspiracy theories, attacked Democrats, and expressed racist opinions on air.
Cavuto abruptly left the community at his longtime 4 PM ET present in December. Cavuto was not a lot of a Trump critic, however he did promote vaccination after he contracted COVID-19, and had typically asserted factual info counter to misinformation provided up by Trump and different conservative figures.
Fox introduced that Cain would take over Cavuto’s previous time slot beginning Jan. 21.
“Will Cain brings years of experience to the 4 PM hour as an accomplished broadcaster and a lawyer and we look forward to adding his insights to what will no doubt be another historic news cycle ahead this year,” Fox Information Media CEO Suzanne Scott mentioned in an announcement.
Scott didn’t, nevertheless, point out Cain’s monitor file of falsehoods, assaults, and smears from his time as a commentator and host on the community.
In 2023, following the right-wing Supreme Courtroom choice putting down affirmative motion in greater schooling, Cain praised the result and mentioned, “I find it affirming today that the Supreme Court of the United States rejected critical race theory.” He additionally mentioned that being known as a “Karen” is a “racial slur for white women.”
On his Fox Information podcast, Cain mentioned in 2021 that medical doctors had been “captured by groupthink” as a result of they really helpful vaccination to forestall the unfold of the COVID-19 virus.
Throughout a dialogue of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2022, Cain went on the assault and referred to the congresswoman as “a parasite feeding off of a host until that host will ultimately die.”
In a 2023 dialogue, Cain mentioned President Joe Biden was engaged within the “deliberate destruction of the country” in response to Biden shifting away from Trump’s harsh anti-immigrant immigration insurance policies. That yr, he additionally mentioned Biden was “seemingly pushing us toward a race war.”
Final yr, Cain derided critics of Donald Trump as “single-cell amoeba-level intelligence individuals” with “no real ability to escape 2016’s Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
In response to the Boy Scouts of America altering their identify to Scouting America for the said function of being extra inclusive as women had been welcomed into this system, Cain proclaimed, “The Boy Scouts are dead.”
“It is the death of the Boy Scouts. Hey, we do need spaces. It’s not bigoted to say some spaces are for boys, some spaces are for girls,” he added.
When the Division of Justice introduced that they’d examine Ticketmaster for antitrust points after followers had been locked out of buying live performance tickets for Taylor Swift, Cain claimed—with out proof—that the motion was retribution in opposition to the conservative CEO of Ticketmaster’s dad or mum firm.
“So Live Nation is owned by Liberty Media. Liberty Media’s CEO is John Malone. John Malone has gone about the process of de-wokeifying most of his companies. Batgirl out. Most of this has been made sane once again under the umbrella of Liberty Media. Once you let go of something that the Democratic Party had control of, you suddenly start getting threats of FTC letters. Ask Elon Musk,” Cain mentioned.
Fox Information, which was created to advance a conservative message, has lengthy been within the tank for Trump. However the transfer to interchange Cavuto with a determine like Cain additional cements the community’s popularity as Trump’s most dependable media ally.
