'We know you love the guy': Fox host mocks colleagues on air for fawning over Trump

• A Fox News host deflated her Trump-enthusiast colleagues on air on Wednesday.
• The quip from Gillian Turner came in a segment on Trump's lawsuit against social-media companies.
• Turner suggested that her colleagues' love of Trump may cloud their view of his motivations.

A Fox News host on Wednesday mocked her colleagues' enthusiasm for former President Donald Trump, saying, "We know you love the guy."

The hosts were discussing Trump's lawsuit accusing Google, Facebook, and Twitter of censoring him.

Trump's lawsuit, filed Wednesday, garnered praise from other Fox News hosts such as Sean Hannity. At a press conference, Trump described his bans from Facebook and Twitter after the Capitol insurrection as "censorship" that he alleged was "unlawful, unconstitutional, and completely un-American."

Discussing the lawsuit on "Outnumbered," Kayleigh McEnany, who worked as a Trump campaign surrogate and the White House press secretary, said Trump was "fighting for everyday Americans," The Daily Beast first reported.

A guest on the show, Jesse Watters, praised Trump's "presidential presentation," saying he was suing on "behalf of the American people," according to The Daily Beast.

"The public are crying out for these laws to be changed," Emily Compagno said.

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Gillian Turner, however, punctured the fawning atmosphere. "I think this lawsuit is a little more self-serving than maybe Jesse and Kayleigh laid out for us a moment ago," she said.

"We know you love the guy, the former president, like family," she continued. "I think this is more about his political prospects going into the next election."

She added that Trump was keen to keep the focus on social media and that he began his press conference "not by saying, 'This is for the American people, this suit,' but by saying, 'I want to fight back because they banned me'" after January 6.

It was more a "personal beef," she said.

Watters was undeterred. "Yeah, it's personal, but he's also acting on behalf of the millions of Americans that feel basically shaken down by these large corporations," he said. McEnany interjected to say, "Exactly."

The lawsuit came amid bipartisan concern over the might of major social-media companies but a political divide about what exactly the problem is.

Republican lawmakers have frequently grilled tech CEOs over what they consider to be anti-conservative bias. It was a preoccupation during Trump's presidency that reached its zenith soon after the riot at the Capitol on January 6.

The scrutiny has appeared to have a chilling effect on Facebook's willingness to crack down on right-wing disinformation on several occasions.

Meanwhile, Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have accused the tech giants of not taking enough action on political misinformation.