Former President Donald Trump on Monday attacked Fox News in a series of posts on his Truth Social platform following the conservative network’s announcement that it will be hosting an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris later this week.
Fox News’ Bret Baier said he will be taping an interview with Harris in the key battleground of Pennsylvania on Wednesday as the vice president has sought to expand her outreach to voters in the final stretch of the campaign.
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Trump claimed Harris was right to choose Baier to question her, describing the host as “often very soft to those on the ‘cocktail circuit’ Left.”
“I would have preferred seeing a more hard hitting journalist, but Fox has grown so weak and soft on the Democrats, constantly polluting the airwaves with unopposed Kamala Representatives, that it all doesn’t matter anymore,” Trump said.
Trump continued to vent about the network’s move to feature dissenting voices on its air, including Ian Sams, a senior spokesperson for the Harris campaign, claiming “it has a very negative effect on the Election.”
“Think of it, I spend an hour with the wonderful Maria Bartiromo, do a beautiful job, and then am followed up all day long by one-sided, negative Democrats, including Ian Sams, who virtually owns the Network,” he wrote. “It’s not worthwhile doing Interviews on Fox, because it all just averages out into NOTHING. FoxNews has totally lost its way!”
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Trump was widely criticized for telling Bartiromo he would order the U.S. military to attack his perceived enemies if he won reelection. The “Sunday Morning Features” host didn’t push back on his threat.
In a later post on Truth Social, Trump singled out anchor Neil Cavuto, who interviewed Sams Monday, adding that he has one “the worst shows on Television—and the worst rated” on the network.
Sams called out Trump for skipping interviews with the mainstream press in the past month.
“We’ve got to wonder why,” Sams told Cavuto.
Trump cancelled a planned interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” earlier this month, and also pulled out from a scheduled appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” one of the show’s hosts announced on air Tuesday.
Still, Trump has continued to make appearances in friendlier settings. Beside sitting down with Bartiromo, the GOP presidential nominee is also set to tape a town hall with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner in Georgia on Tuesday with an all-woman audience focused on issues affecting women in this election, which will air at 11 a.m. ET the following day.
Apart from her Fox News appearance, Harris is also reportedly considering sitting down for an interview with the right-leaning “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in an effort to court young male voters.