Donald Trump supporter Scott Baio appeared Tuesday on MSNBC to discuss his speaking role in the Republican National Convention, but instead found himself explaining why he tweeted an anti-Hillary Clinton meme.
Baio has been criticized for tweeting a photo of the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate standing in front of the word “count,” except that the “o” is blocked, which makes it appear as if she is standing in front of the “c-word.” When Baio told MSNBC’s Tamron Hall that he wrote his speech in church, Hall slammed him by referencing the tweet and asking, “Did you think about that while you were in church?”
The actor defended himself by claiming he simply presented the picture without commentary, but Hall kept at it.
“I just put it out there!” Baio said.
“You’re writing your speech in church, you talk about religion coming back to this country, and us having a moral barometer, where was your moral compass when you put a photo of a woman that you disagree with politically, and that’s fine, but what do you think about that?” she asked.
“I just put it up there,” the actor insisted. “There is no commentary attached to it.”
The interview went further south from there, as the two proceeded to shout over one another until an MSNBC producer eventually cut to commercial, and ended the segment.
