An “English psychic” appearing on the conservative channel Fox News delivered news not entirely to the liking of her host, Jesse Watters, predicting “a sense of loss” for Donald Trump this year as he seeks to return to the White House.
“I do recognise I’m on Fox TV,” Paula Roberts said, laughing nervously next to the rightwing anchor. “A sense of loss. A sense of loss, but it’s very specific.”
Trump is both a former US president and a 91-times charged criminal defendant but is nonetheless the clear frontrunner to face Joe Biden again in the presidential election in November. Polling between the two men is tight, Trump often placed in the lead.
According to her own website, Roberts is a “psychic, clairvoyant, seer, ghost hunter, remote viewer, handwriting analyst and speaker … aware of the presence of spirit” since she was a small child in the UK but now based in New York City.
Watters is a dedicated controversialist and the leading light of the Fox News prime-time lineup. On Tuesday, he asked Roberts for “a reading on President Trump”.
Roberts drew one tarot card from a deck spread before her. The card showed a figure in a black robe, standing bowed in a landscape.
“Uh-oh,” said Watters, echoed by Roberts.
“What is that?” the host asked.
Roberts delivered her reading. Appearing to sense Watters’ disappointment, she continued: “No, no, let me move on. It’s a sense of loss. It’s as if he may be thinking more about what he’s lost and not still taking full advantage of what he still has.”
“That’s a great interpretation, Paula,” said Watters, laughing.
“It’s true, I don’t make it up,” said Roberts.
Trump’s campaign continues to be fueled by something made up: the lie that his conclusive defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 was the result of electoral fraud. (A lie accepted by more than a third of Americans.)
Watters asked what Biden’s year would look like. Roberts drew another card, revealing a light-robed figure in what appeared to be a blooming garden or orchard.
“Lots and lots and lots and lots of money,” she said. “Lots of money.”
Watters burst out laughing and said: “From China?”
That was a reference to Republican attempts to portray Biden as corrupt.
“You are cheeky,” Roberts carried on. “I didn’t say from where … from whatever is his normal, it’s way above.”
Watters said he would put Roberts “in touch with James Comer”, the Republican House oversight chair who is leading attempts to have Biden impeached.
Watters asked Roberts to predict what his own year would look like. She said she saw a “young, dynamic, very, very bright person”. Watters, 45, asked: “Are you sure mine wasn’t the money card?”
Following up her prediction of “loss” for Trump and “lots of money” for Biden, Roberts said Americans should expect “great happiness” this year.
“I mean, that’s just full of joy, happiness, contentment. It’s actually a funny way of putting it, it is as big as the money card is. It’s a big, big, big, big, happy.”
The presidential election takes place on 5 November.
