Fox News Anchor Smacks Down Trump With Fact-Check of Wild Bartiromo Interview: 'He Can't Wrap His Br

[Judi Lynn]

Fox News Anchor Smacks Down Trump With Fact-Check of Wild Bartiromo Interview: ‘He Can’t Wrap His Brain Around the Fact’ He Lost
By Ken Meyer
Nov 29th, 2020, 3:57 pm

Fox News anchor Eric Shawn issued a blistering reality check to President Donald Trump for pushing a series of baseless claims of electoral fraud on the network just hours before.

Trump gave his first televised interview after the election to Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, where he attacked his own Republican allies, floated countless conspiracy theories, and continued to push the false claim that the 2020 election was “fake.” Instead of demanding proof of the massively corrupt conspiracy that Trump was alleging, Bartiromo mostly took his side, agreeing with his arguments and declining to challenge his claims.

Shawn hosted America’s News Headquarters later in the day, and kicked off a segment by dissecting Trump’s claims of “massive voter fraud” while noting that “his campaign has failed to prove any of this in court.”

“In fact,” Shawn continued, “your government, election officials, experts and others — many of them Republican, including Trump appointed officials — say that the president’s claims are false and unsubstantiated.”

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Quit making excuses for trump...all he is, is a poor loser, and obviously can't get over the fact...

that his cheating didn't go far enough to swing the election in his favor.

He definitely deserves the title of 'biggest loser' ... I swear, I keep looking around, and looking for the ambulance, with all of trump's whining going on and on and on and on...

[Skittles]

2. perhaps while Fox News is at it

they can examine why they slavishly devoted themselves to help install such a delusional fucking idiot into the White House

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I didn't see the interview,

and I'm not about to listen to a nonsecond of Trump, but I must ask, did Bartiromo not push back at all?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Apparently she felt compelled to give him total control of her show. From the Washington Post:

With Fox’s Maria Bartiromo as his first post-election interviewer, Trump found a sympathetic ear and few questions
Over 45 minutes, the opinionated business host did not press the president for evidence of his claims of election fraud

By
Jeremy Barr
November 29, 2020 at 2:03 p.m. CST

Nearly four weeks after Fox News drew the ire of President Trump by becoming the first network to project his loss in Arizona, he gave his first post-election interview to one of the network’s hosts, declaring that the election was “rigged” and “a fraud.”

Trump broke his relative silence by calling in to Maria Bartiromo’s “Sunday Morning Futures” for 45 minutes. It was a major exclusive that he handed to Bartiromo, a veteran financial journalist who has emerged over the past four years as one of the biggest backers of Trump’s presidency within the Fox News Media corporate ecosystem. And in doing so, he bypassed superfans on upstart networks like Newsmax and One America News, which are trying to eat into Fox’s dominance in conservative media — with the help of Trump’s cheerleading on Twitter.

But Bartiromo’s questions were few and far between. Trump spoke for much of the interview, which ran so long that her other scheduled guest, Fox News contributor Ken Starr, was only given two minutes to appear at the end of the show.

And, what few questions Bartiromo asked were not hard-hitting. She also signaled belief in Trump’s baseless, conspiracy-fueled allegations about voter fraud in such states as Pennsylvania and Georgia, declaring at one point: “This is disgusting! And we cannot allow America’s election to be corrupted. We cannot.”

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The president praised Bartiromo, whom he called “brave” for covering claims about election fraud, claiming that the media does not want to cover the story.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/29/trump-fox-bartiromo-interview/