Views McInerney has called President Obama a treasonous leader who is "aiding and abetting the enemy."[14] McInerney also has said there were "widespread and legitimate concerns that the President [Obama] is constitutionally ineligible to hold office."[15]
In 2010, McInerney called for strip-searching all Muslim men between the ages of 18 and 28 at airports.[16][17]
In 2015, as a Fox News contributor and a member of the Iran Policy Committee, McInerney was noted for suggesting on Fox News that terrorists could have flown the disappeared Malaysia Airlines 370 to Pakistan.[18]
During a Fox Business News appearance on May 10, 2018, McInerney asserted to the show's host Charles Payne, that torture had "worked on" John McCain (when he was a POW in North Vietnam) and "That's why they call him 'Songbird John',"[19][20][21][22] referencing an unverified claim made against McCain during the Republican primary in South Carolina in 2000.[21][22][23] After the show, Payne apologized on Twitter to Senator McCain and his family for what McInerney had said which he himself did not hear or challenge because he was being told at the same time by the control room to "wrap the segment".[22][24] Afterward, Fox News announced that McInerney would never appear on Fox News or Fox Business again.[25]
After the 2020 elections, McInerney pushed claims about fraud in the election.[26] On November 28, 2020, McInerney claimed that "US special forces command seized a server farm in Frankfurt, Germany", which was run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA);[27][28] the server farm in Frankfurt was at a CIA facility. Both the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Special Operations Command denied that such an attack occurred.[29] He later called on President Trump "to declare a national emergency, use the Insurrection Act, declare martial law, suspend habeas corpus, set up military tribunals, and suspend the electoral college [vote for president and vice-president] on December 14 and the presidential inauguration on January 20". He claimed that the election was being stolen from Trump and treasonous parties should be arrested and charged and a "full investigation" must be done by President Trump.[30][31]
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