MAGA pundit Ben Ferguson was cut off by a CNN host as he tried to defend President Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela.
The president sent the U.S. military into the South American country, scooped up its president and his wife and put them on trial on drug charges in New York. The action was framed as a matter of national security, but Trump and close aides have publicly licked their lips about Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
This issue was brought up on Laura Coates Live on Monday evening. Ferguson had excitedly defended Trump for the whole segment and was sent spiraling when former 2020 Republican Party presidential candidate Joe Walsh said, “It’s oil, it’s oil, it’s oil.”
Walsh, who represented Illinois’s 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013, added: “Donald Trump cares more about Venezuelan oil than he does about problems here in America. I think that will resonate with voters.”
Ferguson was visibly perturbed by this point, shaking his head as Walsh spoke. The conservative commentator tried to jump in again.
“Ben, Joe, thank you both,” Coates began, attempting to close the segment as Ferguson tried to butt in. “We’re not done talking about that. What do you want to say, Ben? Go ahead,” she added.
“I’ll say this about President Trump,” he began, before Coates brutally shut him down.
“Can I follow you on Twitter? And I can read it there instead? Let’s do that. Thanks, Ben. Thanks, Joe.”
Walsh winced as Coates cut Ferguson off.
Ferguson was shut down in the same manner last September when public health activist Chris T. Pernell clashed with him, telling him flatly that he was “loud and wrong.”
