UPDATE: To no one's surprise, ABC, CBS, and NBC completely omitted the story from their flagship morning and evening newscasts on Wednesday. Click here to read the NewsBusters report.
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock apparently got an early piece of coal in his stocking on Christmas week. According to police body camera footage exclusively aired on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight on Tuesday, the radical leftist pastor was accused by his ex-wife of running over her foot with his car as she tried to stop him from driving off with their kids, last March.
The video was stunning and featured Warnock himself talking with the responding Atlanta police officer, but will any of the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, or NBC) share it with their viewers on Wednesday? Unlikely, just as they refused to critically cover the other Democrat running for Senate there, Jon Ossoff and his ties to China. If either of them were a Republican, you could put money down that the liberal media would run with it.
“This is never before seen video, a Tucker Carlson Tonight exclusive. Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rafael Warnock was accused by his now ex-wife, Ouleye of running over her foot. Here is the police bodycam footage as the officer responds to the scene,” reported senior correspondent Rick Leventhal.
Adding: “Ouleye Warnock told an Atlanta police officer her estranged husband ran over her foot during a heated argument back in March, while he was trying to leave with the young children in the backseat.”
In the video, Ouleye can be heard saying “I want to file a report.” At one point, she tried to explain to the unidentified officer that Warnock was a master actor and was singularly focused on preserving his reputation for the Senate race:
OULEYE: This man is running for the United States Senate, and all he cares about right now is his reputation. I work at the mayor’s office, and this is a big problem.
UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER: Okay.
OULEYE: I've been trying to be very quiet about the way he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation. [Transition] I’ve tried to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line. So, that is what is going on here. And he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show.
Again, the body camera forage was from back in March and also showed what he had to say to the officer.
“So, I’m like, ‘move.’ And she won't move. And she’s keeping the door open. So, I'm like, ‘Chloe, just stay in the car.’ And I move, and my car door, get in the car, and I start to move slightly, thinking she’s here,” he claimed, gesturing that she was clear of his car. “Yeah, I'm thinking she’s clear. And I barely move. And all of a sudden, she’s screaming that I ran over her foot. I don't believe it.”
Leventhal also noted that Warnock “was not charged in the incident” and “Hospital first responders say his wife was able to wiggle her toes and there is no redness, blueness, or broken bones…”
The incident raised deep concerns and questions about his temperament and actions that needed to be probed by the media. Unfortunately, the press was more interested in helping Democrats win control of the Senate no matter who the candidates were.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
Fox News Channel’s Special Report
December 22, 2020
8:34:02 p.m. EasternTUCKER CARLSON: Raphael Warnock is a highly political preacher who’s now running for Senate in the state of Georgia. In 1 of 2 races that will determine who controls the federal government. That race is two weeks from now, on January 5th. So it's a little late in the game to be getting the footage we’re about to show you, exclusively. This is footage of Raphael Warnock's wife. Fox News senior correspondent Rick Leventhal has the story for us tonight. Hey, Rick.
RICK LEVENTHAL: Hey, Tucker. This is never before seen video, a Tucker Carlson Tonight exclusive. Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rafael Warnock accused by his now ex-wife, Ouleye [Ndoye] of running over her foot. Here is the police bodycam footage as the officer responds to the scene.
OULEYE WARNOCK: I want to file a report.
UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER: Mhmm.
LEVENTHAL: Ouleye Warnock told an Atlanta police officer her estranged husband ran over her foot during a heated argument back in March, while he was trying to leave with the young children in the backseat.
UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER: All right. So, you walked over.
RAPHAEL WARNOCK: So, I’m like, ‘move.’ And she won't move. And she’s keeping the door open. So, I'm like, ‘Chloe, just stay in the car.’ And I move, and my car door, get in the car, and I start to move slightly, thinking she’s here.
UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER: Clear --
R. WARNOCK: Yeah, I'm thinking she’s clear. And I barely move. And all of a sudden, she’s screaming that I ran over her foot. I don't believe it.
LEVENTHAL: Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, was not charged in the incident. Hospital first responders say his wife was able to wiggle her toes and there is no redness, blueness, or broken bones, but Ouleye had more to say about Warnock's character.
O. WARNOCK: This man is running for the United States Senate, and all he cares about right now is his reputation. I work at the mayor’s office, and this is a big problem.
UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER: Okay.
O. WARNOCK: I've been trying to be very quiet about the way he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation. [Transition] I’ve tried to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line. So, that is what is going on here. And he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show.
LEVENTHAL: As you mentioned, Tucker, Warnock is locked in a tight run off against Republican Kelly Loeffler, a race that two weeks from now could decide the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
CARLSON: Well, that video is unbelievable. That woman is believable.
