‘You Might As Well Ban’ Books ‘In NYC, Because Our Kids Can’t Read’: Charles Payne Torches Eric Adams

Fox Business host Charles Payne was elected Democratic New York City Mayor Eric AdamsHe claimed that he didn’t have any legs when he criticised Governor Ron DeSantis, R-FL.

Payne, who was on Tuesday’s Fox News midday panel broadcast. “Outnumbered,” I was responding to a condescending Tweet Adams DeSantis was visiting New York City to attend an event supporting law enforcement.

“Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis, a place where we don’t ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props, or let the government stand between a woman and health care,” Adams tweets “We’re happy to teach you something about values while you’re here.”

Welcome to NYC.https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@GovRonDeSantis, a place that doesn’t ban books or discriminate against LGBTQ+ neighbours, uses asylum seekers as props or allows the government to stand between a woman who needs health care and her own.

While you are here, we’re happy and able to teach you some values. https://t.co/o2CgOt1SES

— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) February 20, 2023

Payne retorted and stated that Adams should not be pursued by Florida because of allegedly being involved in the Florida riots. “banning books” When students in his city struggled to pass the reading competency tests, According to most recent data From 2022, less than half (49%) of New York City’s public school students were proficient in English language arts. This is an increase over 2019, when only 47.4% of NYC students were able to test above proficiency.

WATCH:

.@cvpayne Eric Adams, NYC Mayor is in absolute bet mode and has destroyed all Democrat-run city experiments

This is a total mic drop. Just watch.🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/PLKWoFTjuz

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 21, 2023

“Let’s start with ‘a place where you don’t ban books,'” Payne started by saying: “You might as well ban them in New York City, because our kids can’t read. Ban them and burn them, because you don’t teach our kids how to read, what the hell good are books in the first place?”

“LGBTQ — I don’t know any member of my family, friends, that LGBTQ — first minute they get, they’re off to Florida,” Payne continued. “They leave New York for Florida every weekend, they’ll slip out on a Friday and come back on a Saturday. Are you kidding me? Yeah, [Florida] is a big, bad spooky place, give me a break on that one.”

Payne continued to highlight that Adams’ claim regarding asylum seekers wasn’t valid, noting that Democrats were also in favor. Accepting migrants and letting everyone pass the border, until the migrants cross into their self-described country. “sanctuary” Cities and states

“They tell the world, ‘Get here, cross that border, and we got your back,'” He said. “Soon as they go to the richest places in America — New York City, Martha’s Vineyard — ‘We can’t afford them, we’re afraid, we’re clutching our pearls, how dare they send these people up here?'”

“You got a lot more money than these border towns,” Payne concluded by saying that it was not appropriate to use asylum seekers as political props. “Democrats own this, 100%.”

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