One day after the wrap of the first phase of public impeachment hearings, President Donald Trump unloaded to Fox News, declaring he wants a Senate trial, pushing a debunked theory that Ukraine has a DNC server, and deeming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “crazy as a bedbug.”
The expansive remarks by the president came during a roughly hour-long phone call to “Fox & Friends,” in an exercise co-host Brian Kilmeade dubbed “a stress release.
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“Well, there's only one person I want more than ‘Where's Hunter,’” Trump said, referring to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son.
“The one I want to testify most is ‘Shifty Schiff,’ and I want to find out why did he make up my statement?” Trump said. “He made up my statement, and I want to find that out. Why did ‘Shifty Schiff’ — who's a crooked politician, he's a corrupt politician — why did he make up my statement?”
Politico
Beat that dead horse, O Orange One. He parodied your speech. You know it, but your base doesn't know what a parody is, so keep it up.
Trump singled out Fox News host Shannon Bream, asking why she would "waste airtime" by featuring [an interview with] a failed presidential candidate, referencing [Dem Rep Eric] Swalwell's short-lived 2020 campaign.
"Fox should stay with the people that got them there, not losers!" he said.
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Earlier this week, he blasted "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace as "nasty" and "obnoxious" over an interview in which he persistently grilled House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) about the implications of the impeachment inquiry.
Trump claimed that the "dumb and unfair interview would never have happened" in the past, prompting a rebuttal from Wallace's colleague Neil Cavuto.
"The best we can do as journalists is be fair to all, including you, Mr. President," Cavuto said on Fox News on Monday. "That’s not fake doing that. What is fake is not doing that. What is fake is saying Fox never used to do that. Mr. President, we have always done that."
The Hill
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