Fox’s Kurtz: You Would Have to Believe Trump Is ‘Insane’ to Think He Was Serious on Russia

Fox’s Kurtz: You Would Have to Believe Trump Is ‘Insane’ to Think He Was Serious on Russia (Mediaite)

Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz cannot bring himself to believe Donald Trump was being serious about asking Russia to find Hillary Clinton‘s emails, because to believe that, he would have to think that Trump is “insane.”

Trump claims he was being sarcastic, and his media boosters are saying the same, but if it was meant to be sarcasm, it’s unclear why both Mike Pence and Paul Ryan had to do damage control after.

But Kurtz claims in a piece for FoxNews.com that he thought the line was “so obviously sarcastic” from the beginning, and despite criticism from foreign policy heavyweights and the Bush-appointed former head of the CIA, Kurtz thinks it’s media bias to think otherwise: