On April 4, Fox News hosted a heavily hyped town hall event with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Even though he was born and raised in New York City, Schultz’s path to the Fox News studios in Manhattan has been a strange journey indeed.

Perhaps most folks would have assumed that such an event would only have occurred on a left-leaning station, such as MSNBC, CNN, or CNBC. After all, Schultz is a lifelong Democrat who has helped elect liberal politicians for decades. He endorsed Barack Obama for president. He endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. At the helm of Starbucks, he steered the company dramatically to the left. He railed against President Trump’s orders on immigration and travel, vowing to hire 10,000 refugees. He pushed liberal policies on climate change and healthcare, and even told an investor to sell his stock simply because that shareholder supported traditional marriage.