The fallout from ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce asking questions to President Donald Trump about his family’s business dealings and the Epstein Files continues, with the White House taking shots at the television network.
In a statement released by the White House on Wednesday evening, it labeled the network as a “Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network,” before lobbing other insults at the network.
“ABC ‘News’ is not journalism — it’s a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network,” the White House said in a statement. “The network’s longstanding commitment to hoaxes, character assassinations, and outright fiction targeting only one side of the political aisle is a deliberate deception to wage war on President Trump and the millions of Americans who elected him to multiple terms.”
The statement then listed grievances the White House has about the way the network has covered President Donald Trump and his policy initiatives, ranging from his first term in 2017 to September of this year.
President Trump has not been shy in his criticism of ABC News, or the network as a whole, in recent days. On Tuesday, he balked at questions asked by Mary Bruce, calling her “horrible”, “insubordinate”, and “a terrible person and a terrible reporter” in the process.
“And ABC, your crappy company, is one of the perpetrators,” Trump said of what he called a fake news operation against him. “I’ll tell you something: I think the license should be taken away from ABC. Because your news is so fake and it’s so wrong. We have a great (FCC) Commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that. Because I think when you come in and when you’re 97% negative to Trump, and then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means — obviously — your news is not credible.”
In a message posted to Truth Social, Trump also called for ABC to remove Jimmy Kimmel from his late-night television slot due to “very biased coverage.”
“Get the bum off the air!!!” Trump wrote.
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