She’s just rage-baiting us, right? … Right?
On Saturday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham was swiftly called out by critics on X after making two truly bonkers claims about a video featuring masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front.
Although hundreds of members of Patriot Front marched throughout parts of the capital on July Fourth, Reuters reports, the video that Ingraham responded to doesn’t seem to have been shot on Saturday.
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Rather, it seems to have been filmed last year and was reposted by an X user on Saturday who wanted to offer some context on the group’s mentality.
“For anyone wondering how these larping losers think, last year I interviewed their leader Thomas Rousseau (after chirping them for their ‘face diapers’),” the X user wrote.
The video then proceeds to show Rousseau making wildly racist comments as he’s backed by silent and masked members of his group.
“I call fake. Looks more like Antifa in costume. No one should be allowed to cover their faces,” Ingraham wrote in response to the year-old video on Saturday.
Ingraham’s stale claim that the masked men were antifa, or anti-fascists, however, can quickly be dismissed.
In January 2025, The Associated Press published photos from D.C. that feature the masked members of Patriot Front toting the same flag in front of the Washington Monument and Rousseau wearing the same outfit.
Yet, it was the latter part of her statement — in which Ingraham declared that “no one should be allowed to cover their faces” — that really irked critics on social media.
Many were quick to remind Ingraham that many Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents cover their entire faces during raids and while interacting with the public, especially at anti-ICE protests.
Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger was among those who criticized Ingraham’s comments, tweeting: “Fake. That’s the only defense you have to this? How about condemning it?”
“I agree with Laura Ingraham. No one should be able to cover their faces. Let’s start with ICE,” journalist Danny Krikorian said alongside an image of masked ICE agents.
“When you’re so embarrassed by your own team that you have to pretend it’s the other team,” journalist John Harwood echoed in response.
Other users also piled on Ingraham.
Footage of Patriot Front descending on D.C. on Saturday is well-documented on X, with Reuters publishing one haunting photo that’s gone viral. The photo, shot by Cheney Orr, shows masked members of Patriot Front crammed into a D.C. Metro train as a Black woman stares wide-eyed into the distance.
