Fox Host: “Robber Barons” Make American Life Better

“You know, when the so-called robber barons came in, for the hundred years before that, wages were like this [makes downward motion]. After this, they went like that for 100 years. Oh, when the robbers came in — robber barons came in, life expectancy in America was like this; all of a sudden, it went like this [makes upward motion.]

“I mean, there was a positive impact. We were living season to season, praying that the seed would work, that the crop would come out of the ground. We created the modern world, and it was the oligarchs who drove that.

“And so, listen, we want to make sure that the people who are the smartest, who understand where the world is going, that we have — the Biden administration wanted to handcuff these folks, wanted to slow them down, wanted to control them, wanted to break them up.” – Fox Business host Charles Payne.

Payne last appeared here in September 2022 when he declared that the previous month’s inflation rate was 100%.

Several times during the first Trump administration Payne blamed downturns in the stock market on “socialist” Democrats.

In 2018, he delivered an on-air apology after celebrating that torture by Vietnamese soldiers had worked on “songbird” John McCain.

In 2017, Payne was suspended by a Fox News after a regular Fox guest accused him him of sexual harassment.