Chris Cuomo tells Benny Johnson that whatever the hosts are, Johnson was just judged as worse
Chris CuomoNewsNation host, in a post on X
Quoting Benny Johnson's post, which says the clip shows who the hosts' side is and that they want you dead, Cuomo replies that whatever they are, Johnson was just judged as worse, and tells him to go away. The post is addressed to Johnson and gives no view on the hosts' laughter.
“Whatever they are, you were just judged as worse...let that sink in. Then go away.”
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Podcast hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laugh at a post about digging up Charlie Kirk; Cash App says it no longer sponsors the show
On the November 5, 2026 episode of their podcast I've Had It, Jennifer Welch read aloud a post saying "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again" and she and Angie Sullivan laughed. The hosts then said Kirk was shot by "a MAGA person". Critics condemned the exchange, and Cash App said it was no longer a sponsor of the show.
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Cuomo quotes Benny Johnson's November 5 post about the I've Had It clip and replies to Johnson.
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Johnson posts a 39-second clip of the exchange and comments on Welch and on what he says the clip shows about her side.
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Johnson's November 5 post, which Cuomo quotes, calls Welch a left-wing witch and says of the hosts' laughter: "This is who they are." It adds: "They want you dead."
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This is the full text of Cuomo's post.
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The reference point is Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan's on-air laughter at a post about digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again, and the remarks that followed, on the November 5, 2026 episode of I've Had It. Cuomo answers Johnson's description of the hosts and their side ("This is who they are") by telling Johnson "you were just judged as worse". He disputes Johnson's characterization and gives no view on the laughter itself, so the post does not defend or excuse the hosts.
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“Very few on the left will object to this even on just basic decency or humanity grounds -- even if it's just to say: mabye we shouldn't publicly cackle and celebrate when someone is fatally shot in the neck? -- because online group-think means they'll be castigated by their audience and other commentators and they don't have the courage to endure even that kind of trivial criticism.”Read statement
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