'Just do it': Sky News host ‘sickened' after Abbie Chatfield signals for American incels to assassinate President Donald Trump
Chatfield asked Americans 'when are you going to do it?' in a TikTok video which is now deleted.
"Why isn't it already done? You, every day there is another (gun finger hand gesture shown) happening right? Awful for your country, awful right?" Chatfield said.
'Why don't we re-direct this energy to something else, you know, there's all this incels that are going 'no one wants to f*** me', so they go and do (gun finger hand gesture shown).
'You know what would actually make people respect you a little bit and maybe want to f*** you, as if you did it, as if you did it.
'You would get heaps of fan mail. Oh my god, oh my god … just do it. Like you are doing it every day anyway. Like I don't f***ing get it … like what.'
Sky News host Rowan Dean suggested her 'bizarre' rant incited young men to assassinate Trump.
'So, there is lots of hand gestures of a gun. She's not explicit, so I will make that very clear,' he said on Sky News' Outsiders on Sunday.
'But the implication that I read from that was that she was saying to American young men, who are incels, who struggle to find a girlfriend or whatever, to go and assassinate President Trump.
'That seemed to be the implication behind 'just do it' and this (gun finger hand gesture shown) and that. I may be wrong and there may be a completely other explanation to what she was saying.
'But as a viewer taking it as face value, that's how I read it, and it sickened me."
Fellow Sky News host Rita Panahi called for Mr Albanese to be asked about the deleted video.
'Well, I would like the Prime Minister to be asked about this because he chose to go on her podcast,' she said.
'I can guarantee you if it was a Liberal prime minister who went on someone's podcast who then uttered anything approaching that, they would be questioned about it, they would be asked to disassociate or at least pass some sort of comment on the association with that person.'
Mr Albanese sat down with Chatfield for a 90-minute interview on the It's a Lot with Abbie Chatfield , prior to the federal election this year.
United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet said the Prime Minister must 'immediately' condemn Chatfield's 'vile rhetoric'.
'(She is) calling for the assassination of the sitting President of the United States - our most important security ally - is not just unhinged, it's stochastic terrorism,' he said on X.
SkyNews.com.au has reached out to Mr Albanese's office for comment.
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