Fox Anchor Breaks Down As He Revealed Personal Family Experience
A Fox Business anchor became emotional on live television as he reflected on a deeply personal family story from his childhood. Charles Payne shared the account of his family’s bold financial decision to purchase a farm in Alabama in 1951.
During Payne’s Thursday town hall event, titled “Maintaining Unstoppable Prosperity,” he urged viewers to embrace financial risks when investing. To illustrate his point, Payne recounted the sacrifices his grandparents made when acquiring 60 acres of land in the early 1950s.
Payne explained that a family member recently uncovered the deed to his grandparents’ farm, describing them as “a Black family that saved up everything.”
“I got to share some of this with you because it is so powerful for anyone out there that thinks buying Amazon is a great risk. They gave everything they have for the property,” Payne said, before reading directly from the deed.
The document detailed the personal belongings and livestock his grandparents traded to secure the land. “It says, ‘We do hereby grant, bargain, and sell and convey unto the seller to describe the personal property and crops which are owned by us freely. One red horse mule named Red. One gray horse mule named Jack. One two-horse wagon, one hay mower, one hay press, nine head of mixed cattle, a sow hog, some wagons, mowers, presses,’” Payne read, his voice trembling.
“My grandparents gave everything. Everything they had. They worked their a** off for years, and they gave it all for 60 acres to have their own. That’s a risk, folks. That’s a risk. I’m so grateful,” he said, visibly moved.
In February, Payne was involved in a heated exchange with former Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera during a segment on “Hannity.” The discussion centered on President Joe Biden’s response to the war in Ukraine and his decision to block a deal that would have provided Polish fighter jets to the embattled nation.
Hannity criticized Biden for not doing enough, saying, “If we’re going to give $120 billion to Ukraine and then Joe Biden has now not once, but a number of times, he has vetoed other European countries from giving fighter jets so that they can compete with Putin in the air. And there’s no reason to do that except he’s not fighting to win the war.”
Payne, a Fox Business host, added, “It’s a proxy war. I think the administration’s happy if it’s just bogged down. If you can bog Russia down, they lose a lot of people.”
He went on to critique Biden’s visit to Ukraine, calling the use of air raid sirens during the trip “the most phony baloney stuff. The air raid sirens hadn’t gone on ’cause they hadn’t gone off for five days. It was …” Rivera interjected, saying, “They’ve lost 100,000 people.”
Payne doubled down, replying, “Air raid sirens had not gone off in that city in five days. It was phony baloney Hollywood junk.”
Rivera disagreed, asserting, “That is a little partisan jab that you didn’t have to make. They have lost 100,000–” before Payne interrupted to point out that Russia was aware of Biden’s visit.
“Russia was notified that Biden was coming. Do you think Russia was gonna drop a bomb on President Biden?!” Payne exclaimed. Rivera disputed this, saying, “Russia was not notified.”
However, Payne was correct. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan later confirmed to reporters, “We did notify the Russians that President Biden would be traveling to Kyiv. We did so some hours before his departure for deconfliction purposes.”
Sullivan added, “Because of the sensitive nature of those communications, I won’t get into how they responded or what the precise nature of our message was. But I can confirm that we provided that notification.”