Fox's Jesse Watters attacks legislation classifying lynching as a hate crime

Watters: “How is this our top priority right now? Nobody has been lynched in America in decades”

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From the March 29, 2022, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Instead of tackling inflation or the border, today our president signed a bill to classify lynching as a hate crime. How is this our top priority right now?

Nobody has been lynched in America in decades. Call it whatever you want to call it, a hate crime, fine with me, good, it's heinous. But is this the top concern for the American people? This is behind the cost of living?