Coasting off of his pretaped appearance on Fox News that aired over the weekend, Donald Trump lashed out at the network ahead of its upcoming interview with Kamala Harris, saying Fox News “has totally lost its way” and that it was “not worthwhile” to do interviews with the network anymore.
In a Truth Social post Monday, Trump named certain Fox News guests and contributors, falsely labeling them as “Harris Radical Left Democrat mouthpieces” and saying that their presence on the network “has a very negative effect on the Election.”
Trump singled out Harris’ campaign spokesperson Ian Sams, who appeared on Neil Cavuto’s show on Monday. “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,” Trump wrote. “It’s not worthwhile doing Interviews on Fox, because it all just averages out into NOTHING. FoxNews has totally lost its way!”
Trump’s criticism of Fox News comes after the network announced earlier that day that Harris will sit for an interview with its chief political anchor, Bret Baier, on Wednesday. In another post, Trump reacted to the announcement by accusing Baier of being “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,” he wrote.
Trump continues to have a rocky relationship with the network, and his latest gripes target the conservative network for not being uniformly pro-Trump and for allowing dissenting voices on its shows. Trump has also attacked Fox News for what he perceives as disloyalty, yet it remains arguably the only mainstream news network where the Republican presidential nominee has the leeway to go on uninterrupted tirades. Take the aforementioned pretaped interview with Bartiromo that aired Sunday: Trump made a series of outrageous false claims, insulted his political opponents and called Democrats “the enemy from within,” referring to them as “more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries” — all with little to no pushback.
