During a recent speech from his famous Trump Towner in New York City on Thursday, September 26, former President Donald Trump took aim at ABC News over how it handled the September 10 presidential debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris. Particularly, he sounded off on the fact-check situation during the debate.
As a reminder, during the debate, former President Donald Trump was frequently challenged on what he alleged, both in the form of fact-checks and in follow up questions pressing him on the details, whereas Vice President Harris was largely let off without fact-checks even when she made demonstrable lies, such as pushing the “fine people” hoax.
Former President Donald Trump, in any case, took aim at Disney-owned ABC News and the two co-moderators of the presidential debate. First, he characterized that the debate was one against three, saying, “And during the debate, I mentioned that and David Muir, a real lightweight. I had one against three, but I think we did great.”
Continuing, he sounded off on the squabble he and Muir had during the debate about the state of crime in America, with Muir attempting to fact-check Trump’s claim that crime is out of control here in America. Trump said, “But David Muir of ABC, fake news, when I said that crime is way up in our country, he corrected me, he corrected me and so much and it was right what I said.”
Then, Trump called out Muir for fact-checking him but not Kamala, saying, ” He didn’t correct [Vice President Kamala Harris] one time, and what she said was wrong, absolutely wrong. So many different— Charlottesville, she was wrong, all of the different things, almost everything she said, and she was never corrected.”
Returning to the issue of crime and Muir’s attempt at a fact-check, Trump described the spat they had on the debate stage, saying, “But he corrected me on crime. He said, ‘No, no, crime has not gone up.’ I said crime has gone up massively. He said, ‘I’d like to state for the record that crime has not gone up.’”
He then hammered ABC News for violating an agreement about there not being any fact-checks that he claims they had, saying, “Now you don’t know this, but we had a deal with ABC that there will be no corrections of any kind, and they violated the deal. Why? Because they’re bad people, and they’re fake news.”
Continuing on that point and further ridiculing David Muir, he said, “So he did it many times to me during the debate. He violated the deal. That’s the deal, because you can take anything and try and make up stories with it. We had a deal where that wouldn’t happen. You could do whatever you wanted as soon as the debate was over, but he did it in total violation of what our agreement was. And a lot of people standing right over there [as he looked toward his staff] will tell you exactly what it was, will show you what it was. David Muir has lost all credibility.”
Then, shredding Muir’s co-moderator, Linsey Davis, the former president said that she is “terrible” and he doesn’t understand how she even got her job. He said, “I never heard of her. I never want to hear of her. She was terrible. I don’t know how she ever got her job in the first place. But we have a country to save, and we can’t have fake news like that. And his ratings deserve to go down.”
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