By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-27 18:42:02 | Updated at 2024-11-27 20:32:19
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Fox News' star Laura Ingraham mistook one black woman for another live on-air, then tried to downplay the embarrassing error.
Ingraham, 61, confused Georgia district attorney Fani Willis with New York attorney general Letitia James on Monday's episode of The Ingraham Angle.
Moments later, the anchor subtly addressed the confusion, downplaying the error as she said she mixed up two women who 'both hate Trump.'
'Earlier in the Angle, we accidentally showed a graphic that had a photo of another vicious anti-Trump figure, Letitia James, when we were talking about Fani Willis,' Ingraham said
'So that was our mistake, but they both hate Trump.'
Ingraham made the mistake as she was discussing the legal cases against Trump, which she described as 'fraudulent.'
'History’s gonna remember Jack Smith and Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and the judges who let these cases get as far as they did, as modern day Keystone Cops, who chased Trump around, hounding him, trying to keep him off the campaign trail because they hated his agenda,' the controversial conservative said as she sowed an image of James instead.
Social media users were quick to jump on Ingraham's mistake, with many accusing her of racism.
Laura Ingraham issued an explanation after she mixed up prosecutors Fani Willis and Letitia James, who are both black
Willis is the district attorney in Georgia who prosecuted Trump for election interference
James, the AG of New York, successfully sued Trump and his businesses for fraud
'Bigotry on full display,' actor an activist George Takei wrote on X.
'Laura Ingraham keeps misidentifying photos of black people because she thinks they all look the same,' X user Paul Rudnick said.
'Like the blonde women with sleeveless dresses and too much makeup who work for Fox News.
Ingraham has previously mixed up two black men - earlier this year she was talking about Nathan Wade but showed an image of his lawyer, Terrence Bradly, instead.
Willis' election interference case against Trump was dropped on Monday after it was put indefinitely on hold over her romantic relationship with Wade, her top prosecutor.
James, on her part, won a $454million civil fraud judgment against the incoming president, after accusing him of inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to get better loan and insurance terms.
The former president has since appealed the massive ruling, and appeal court judges had tough questions for New York prosecutors in September, signaling they may side with Trump in the case.
Meanwhile, while Trump was convicted in New York for making hush payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, the sentencing in that case is on hold as Trump’s lawyers try to have the conviction dismissed before he takes office, arguing that letting the verdict stand will interfere with his presidential transition and duties
It comes after special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against Trump, acknowledging that Trump’s return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
The decision was inevitable, since longstanding Justice Department policy says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution.
Trump emerges indisputably victorious, having successfully delayed the investigations through legal maneuvers and then winning reelection despite indictments that described his actions as a threat to the country’s constitutional foundations.
The election case brought last year was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats facing Trump as he tried to reclaim the White House. He was
indicted for plotting to overturn his defeat
to Joe Biden in 2020, an effort that climaxed with his supporters’ violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
