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Ingraham’s Sidekick Raymond Arroyo Returning to Fox News After Mysterious Disappearance

Arroyo vanished from Fox News airwaves for more than a month after going viral for claiming Black voters should love Trump because of his pricey sneakers.

Fox News pundit Raymond Arroyo, best-known for his goofy appearances on Laura Ingraham’s primetime show, appears to be returning to the network after mysteriously vanishing for more than a month. “Who is ready for some Friday Follies?!? See you TONIGHT,” Arroyo tweeted on Friday morning alongside a picture of himself with Ingraham on-set. The conservative pundit hadn’t appeared on Fox since February 22, after sparked widespread backlash for a viral clip of him leaning hard into racial stereotypes, claiming on-air that Black voters would support Donald Trump because “they love sneakers” like the tacky $399 gold ones the ex-president unveiled in February. Arroyo’s unexplained absence stood in stark contrast to how often he previously appeared on the network: Since January 1, the Ingraham sidekick was on Fox News at least 29 times, at one point showing up on The Ingraham Angle four times in a single week.

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