We have made it to midweek and the Elitist Media are still trying to cover for Sen. Jon Ossoff after his disgusting, sexist attack implying that President Trump is having an affair with a White House staffer. CNN’s Scott Jennings was having none of it.
Watch as Jennings nukes Ossoff from orbit over the remarks, and shuts down host Laura Coates for trying to justify Ossoff:
WATCH: @ScottJenningsKY NUKES Jon Ossoff over his cowardly attack on Natalie Harp, as host Laura Coates interrupts and infers some other meaning to Ossoff's words
LAURA COATES: People are looking at- and many times the critiques and criticism of Ossoff and they're directly… pic.twitter.com/A0ZSJqibOS— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 19, 2026
LAURA COATES: People are looking at- and many times the critiques and criticism of Ossoff and they're directly pointing to what they see as hypocritical, a hypocritical thread to what the president does oftentimes. Do you see a distinction?
SCOTT JENNINGS: Well, I don't know how to answer that, because Ossoff, I agree with Marc, was giving what we just played there- standard liberal talking points against Trump. You're going to hear that from every candidate for President. What he did with Natalie Harp, though, was something different. He didn't attack the President. He took an unknown presidential aide. She's not elected to anything. She's not a household name. She's not a public figure. And he basically communicated that the only reason she has her job in The White House is because, hey, that's what Republican women are good for, right? Wink, wink. That's how they get their jobs in politics. I think he's a disgusting coward, because not...
COATES: He didn’t say that specifically, to be clear. But your intimation is what you think happened. Go ahead.
JENNINGS: Well, if you're arguing that he could have had any other possible meeting, meaning I don't I don't know how you would conclude anything other. You heard the crowd. They were in there clapping like seals. Now, the Party of Women likes to tell us that, you know, we're here for women's rights and we're going to promote women. And then you've got one of their leading candidates for president out dragging an unknown woman who's gone off to serve her government through the mud, insinuating that the only possible reason she could have a job in politics is because she's a concubine for a politician. It's disgusting, he went on MS NOW and got asked about it and he wouldn't defend it.
ASHLEY ETIENNE: Get out of here.
JENNINGS: He wouldn't defend it. He was a coward for not defending it. He's willing to do it in a- in a scripted rally, but he's not willing to defend it after the fact. It's despicable.
What immediately followed was an argument with former Biden White House staffer Ashley Etienne, who joined Coates in defending Ossoff. Much of these arguments in defense of Ossoff depend on gaslighting the public into believing that Ossoff didn’t mean what he clearly inferred.
This is precisely what Jennings was pointing out, correctly noting that Ossoff spun out into a weird argument about “sycophants” when Jen Psaki brought him on to try and clean his mess up. Coates would subsequently cut Jennings off in order to pronounce that Jennings’ pronouncement was speculative.
There is no bottom with the left and the Elitist Media when it comes to smearing someone for political advantage. No one is exempt, not even a cancer survivor. Jennings was right to call this hypocrisy out.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned segment as aired on CNN on Tuesday, July 18th, 2026:
CNN ELECTION NIGHT IN AMERICA
8/18/26
11:37 PM
LAURA COATES: Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff is upping the ante again. And he's got the President's attention. Ossoff, who was locked in a tough reelection battle in Georgia this November, just launched a new line of attack. This time, he stood next to decorated combat veteran and sitting Senator Mark Kelly to deliver this message to The White House.
JON OSSOFF: I don't think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging crook president who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man.
COATES: My panel is back with me. Okay, Marc. The White House was quick to respond to Ossoff’s comments about his aide the other day, Natalie Harp. Are they going to take the bait again?
MARC CAPUTO: Well, Trump will usually take the bait because he- he likes to hit Jon Ossoff as Pee Wee Herman, as you heard the other day. Now, as far as the rest of The White House, The White House is- one of the things that characterizes it is that the people serving in there really love the President, and they like each other. And they took it very personally that one of their own, Natalie Harp, was dragged into it. I think this is a little different. This is a little more sort of de rigueur, kind of common campaign attacks, but I think The White House and Trump have made the determination that it's fun to hit back at Ossoff. So they'll continue to do it.
COATES: I mean, Ossoff clearly thinks it's appropriate and strategically advantageous for him to hit back at The White House as well. This is one of those moments.
LULU GARCÍA-NAVARRO: It's actually- it's a double edged sword. Why? He's running for reelection in Georgia. There's always this balance that you're trying to do, right, which is you got to run in your state and people in your state care about the issues of your state. And he is hitting at Donald Trump. And so there's a lot of speculation, obviously, about 2028. He has said he's not interested in that. But of course, no one's interested until they are publicly. And so, you know, that can rub people the wrong way. Democrats definitely want a fighter. Democrats definitely want someone to be hitting out at Trump. It helps raise your profile, for sure. But in a state like Georgia, which is a purple state, there is an open question about how much it's going to hit him. I think Ossoff's going to win. I don't think it's even a question in Georgia. You know, that's what I see. That said, um, I do think he has to be careful. Probably.
COATES: Do you think so? People are looking at- and many times the critiques and criticism of Ossoff and they're directly pointing to what they see as hypocritical, a hypocritical thread to what the president does oftentimes. Do you see a distinction?
SCOTT JENNINGS: Well, I don't know how to answer that, because Ossoff, I agree with Marc, was giving what we just played there- standard liberal talking points against Trump. You're going to hear that from every candidate for President. What he did with Natalie Harp, though, was something different. He didn't attack the President. He took an unknown presidential aide. She's not elected to anything. She's not a household name. She's not a public figure. And he basically communicated that the only reason she has her job in The White House is because, hey, that's what Republican women are good for, right? Wink, wink. That's how they get their jobs in politics. I think he's a disgusting coward, because not...
COATES: He didn’t say that specifically, to be clear. But your intimation is what you think happened. Go ahead.
JENNINGS: Well, if you're arguing that he could have had any other possible meeting, meaning I don't I don't know how you would conclude anything other. You heard the crowd. They were in there clapping like seals. Now, the Party of Women likes to tell us that, you know, we're here for women's rights and we're going to promote women. And then you've got one of their leading candidates for president out dragging an unknown woman who's gone off to serve her government through the mud, insinuating that the only possible reason she could have a job in politics is because she's a concubine for a politician. It's disgusting, he went on MS NOW and got asked about it and he wouldn't defend it.
ASHLEY ETIENNE: Get out of here.
JENNINGS: He wouldn't defend it. He was a coward for not defending it. He's willing to do it in a- in a scripted rally, but he's not willing to defend it after the fact. It's despicable.
COATES: Ashley.
ASHLEY ETIENNE: I mean, I just all this sort of fake outrage just really infuriates.
JENNINGS: It’s not fake. I can assure you it is…
ETIENNE: Yes, it is.
JENNINGS: Not fake.
ETIENNE: When the President called…
JENNINGS: You don't put words in my mouth. It’s not fake.
(CROSSTALK)
ETIENNE: But you’re putting words in Ossoff’s mouth.
JENINGS: And she said “fake outrage.” I am really outraged.
COATES: Hold on a second, hold on. Ashley, please speak. Please listen to what she has to say. We all respected when you had the platform. Ashley. Go ahead.
ETIENNE: Ossoff never suggested that Republican women only get jobs if they're sleeping with their principal. He never suggested anything to that degree. What he said was that they seemed to be together quite often, which is a statement of fact. The real reality is the reason why you guys are taking this stuff so personally is because you believe there's probably some level of truth to it, especially given the principal we're talking about here. But here's the thing that really upsets me most is the level of outrage from The White House about a staffer. Okay, there's always that staffer. I've worked in two White Houses. There's always a staffer really close to the principal, but you don't have that same level of outrage for- for sailors on a ship who've been out to sea for, for months on end and are jumping off trying to commit suicide. I mean, that's really where you lose people and that's where you lose me with this fake, fake outrage. Scott. I mean, it is- it's- that's what's despicable. Not not.
JENNINGS: Let me answer.
ETIENNE: Not pointing out that the staffer spends a lot of time with the principal.
JENNINGS: So, so you said every White House has-
ETIENNE: There's always there's-
JENNINGS: Who was Joe Biden's female that hung around all the time?
ETIENNE: Well, some would say Anita was spending a lot of time with him, Kate Bedingfield...
JENNINGS: And are you insinuating they were there for a reason?
ETIENNE: No, but I-
JENNINGS: You say it happens all the time.
ETIENNE: No, I'm saying there's always a staffer that's close to the principal that wants to be close to the principal. And so all that Ossoff said is they spent a lot of time together. You took it for- you took it there. You made the statement about Republican..
JENNINGS: No. He took it there.
ETIENNE- He never said…
JENNINGS: Here's the deal. He's been in the Senate since 21. He's had dozens of female staffers, ranging from intern all the way up to senior staff positions. What if I walked out here tonight and read a list of their names and said, here's such and such. Here's her title. And boy, it sure is- sure is interesting that she hangs out with Jon Ossoff so much I wonder why. Oh, she looks pretty nice. I wonder why he did that. What if I did that? You would be outraged…
ETIENNE: No, I would not be.
JENNINGS: You know why? Because. Because it's ridiculous.
(CROSSTALK)
ETIENNE: You know. Ossoff would not respond the way that the president responded, nor The White House. They- they actually gave it more credibility the way that they responded.
(CROSSTALK)
ETIENNE: No, no, I'm saying it was a statement of fact, but but I'm saying my point, my problem with you is that the outrage that you have on this particular issue versus an- an- a really an issue that really deserves the attention of the entire nation, which is the health and safety of our service members that are out at war.
JENNINGS: We have not even raised that topic tonight.
ETIENNE: But I'm just telling you, I'm saying-
JENNINGS: We have not raised that topic. You're pivoting away..
ETIENNE: You have a choice to be outraged. At your selective outrage.
JENNINGS: You're pivoting away, from…
ETIENNE: I'm not. I'm saying…
JENNINGS: You're a female staffer who climbed to the highest levels of politics. If someone insinuated that you had only done that because of sexual relations with a politician, you would be outraged and I'd be outraged.
ETIENNE: No, I would be outraged if The White House responded the way they did. That's what I'm-
JENNINGS: By defending you?
ETIENNE: No, but…by name calling. They didn't defend her. That wasn't a defense.
JENNINGS: Yes they did.
ETIENNE: They didn't say, you know what? She's qualified. She's- she's spent her time. She's gone to college. She's got degrees. They didn't say that. They started calling Ossoff names.
JENNINGS: He deserved it.
ETIENNE: So that's not that's not how you defend women. That's not how you do it.
COATES: You mean like the way that CNN defends the attacks against our female journalists…who are…
ETIENNE: I was about to say.
COATES: And doing their jobs and are routinely attacked as recently as yesterday. Imagine.
