Amid an ongoing market selloff and economists increasingly forecasting a global recession due to Donald Trump’s crippling aross-the-board tariffs, the president’s loyalists at Fox News have been desperately searching for ways to positively spin the fears of a financial crash.
During Friday’s broadcast of Fox News’ midday roundtable show Outnumbered, co-host Emily Compagno tried out a new talking point: the president was merely doing an “audit” that the United States needed.