(NOT MY) pres drumpf / trump caught in and called out on one of his thousands of lies on (GASP!) faux fox news!!!! If Chris Wallace continues to try to be a real news reporter how long will he be kept by fox??? OR MAYBE he is part of a minority at fox why wants to change faux fox news to a legitimate news organization. From HuffPost.....
Trump Gets Testy When Chris Wallace Fact-Checks Him About Joe Biden
After the president falsely claimed that Joe Biden wants to defund the police, the “Fox News Sunday” host interjected, “Sir, he does not.”
President Donald Trump wasn’t too happy when Chris Wallace fact-checked him about Joe Biden during an interview for “Fox News Sunday”
In fact, as a preview video shows, the president got downright testy.
It all started when Wallace asked Trump about what he’s going to do about the deaths and shootings that seem to be going on.
Trump placed blame on “Democrat-run cities” that are “stupidly run” and then claimed it’s “because they want to defund the police — and Biden wants to defund the police.”
Biden has repeatedly said he opposes defunding police, and Wallace interrupted the president to make that point.
“Sir, he does not,” the Fox News host said.
Trump rolled his eyes in shock that he was being questioned before trying to make his case.
“Look, he signed a charter with Bernie Sanders,” Trump said.
Wallace pointed out that the document “says nothing about defunding the police,” and Trump got testy.
“Oh, really? It says abolish. It says — let’s go. Get me the charter, please,” Trump said, interrupting the interview.
In the video below, Wallace tells Fox News host Bill Hemmer that the president then combed over highlights from the Biden-Sander charter.
“He found a lot of things that he objected to that Biden agreed to, but he couldn’t find any indication ― because there isn’t any ― that Joe Biden has sought to defund and abolish the police,” Wallace said.
The complete interview airs Sunday, and Wallace, possibly sensing that Fox News viewers might not enjoy watching Trump being caught in a lie, threw some red meat their way.
He promised that the president “takes some shots at Joe Biden I’ve never heard before” during the interview.
Chris Wallace Chews Out Trump Adviser For Denying Reality Of ‘Empty’ Tulsa Rally
“Frankly, it makes you guys look silly when you deny the reality of what happened,” the Fox News host told Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday pressed Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp about the underwhelming turnout at President Donald Trump’s rally in Oklahoma and shot down her attempts to “deny the reality of what happened” with spin.
In an interview with Schlapp on “Fox News Sunday,” Wallace noted Trump’s claim that one million people requested tickets for his Tulsa campaign event, and pointed out that the campaign planned for massive turnout by establishing an outdoor overflow section at the city’s 19,200 capacity BOK Center. The Tulsa Fire Department estimated roughly 6,200 people ultimately attended the event, and Trump’s planned remarks at the outdoor area were canceled at the last minute when the space went mostly unused.
Schlapp, echoing talking points pushed by Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh and manager Brad Parscale, sought to pin the blame on protesters for the lackluster turnout, claiming they blocked pathways. Journalists at the event denied seeing any attendees blocked from entering the venue.
“The fact is, the president talks about the attendance at his events ... how he can fill an arena, and that Joe Biden can’t. He didn’t fill an arena last night,” Wallace interjected. “And you guys were so far off that you had planned an outdoor rally and there wasn’t an overflow crowd.”
“Protesters did not stop people from coming to that rally. The fact is, people did not show up.”
Schlapp doubled down, claiming protesters “absolutely” affected turnout and that millions watched the event online.
She continued: “I’d love to see a Joe Biden rally. Let’s bring it on because there is no comparison.”
“Those people that knew that they wanted to be there physically present with the president,” she added. “They joined us, and they’re family-oriented individuals who wanted to come out and be with us.”
“Mercedes, please don’t filibuster,” Wallace interrupted. “We’re showing pictures here, and it shows big, empty areas. Frankly, it makes you guys look silly when you deny the reality of what happened.”
Chris Wallace Breaks Down ‘Very Bad Week’ For Trump’s Reelection Prospects
When “even your own current Secretary of Defense Mark Esper breaks with you, that’s not a good week,” the Fox News host said on “The View.”
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Tuesday broke down what he called a “very bad week” for President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects, following days of widespread criticism and plummeting approval ratings of Trump’s leadership during the nationwide unrest sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.
During an appearance on ABC’s “The View,” Wallace was asked by co-host Sunny Hostin to comment on the president’s tone as protests against racism and police brutality have erupted across the country.
“Well, I’m not going to talk about it in terms of right or wrong. The president has his base and he has his beliefs, and he’s entitled to them,” Wallace said. “Let me talk about it in terms of politics. I would say that the last week was a very bad week for the president in terms of politics, in terms of his potential reelection prospects.”
Wallace noted criticisms Trump has faced over the past week from religious and military leaders over his divisive and inflammatory responses to the unrest, including his decision to deploy riot police on protesters in the capital, threats to militarize the government’s nationwide response and move to aggressively clear peaceful demonstrators near the White House so he could get photos taken with a Bible outside a nearby church.
“When you’re getting called out by the Episcopal bishop of Washington and the archbishop of the Catholic Church of Washington, when you’re getting called out by everybody from [former Secretary of Defense] Jim Mattis to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen, and even your own current Secretary of Defense [Mark] Esper breaks with you, that’s not a good week,” Wallace said.
“He had some good news on the economy, but clearly, and you see there’s a new poll in The Washington Post today that indicates by an almost 2 to 1 margin people don’t think the president has handled the last week properly, and his approval ratings and his standing in the polls has dropped,” Wallace added.
Numbers released by several national polls over the past week have indicated growing disapproval of Trump’s leadership, disagreement with his handling of the protests and a widening lead for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Wallace concluded: “So you can argue as to whether he’s right or wrong, but politically, I think it’s been a bad week.”
Chris Wallace Slams Kayleigh McEnany: ‘I Never Saw A W.H. Press Sec. Act Like That’
The Fox News anchor went after the White House press secretary for her behavior at Friday’s press briefing.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace took aim at White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Sunday, slamming her for going after reporters about their religious faith and for telling them what questions they should be asking.
McEnany had on Friday accused journalists of “desperately” wanting churches and places of worship to stay closed after she was questioned about President Donald Trump’s claim he would “override” governors who ignored his demand to immediately reopen churches amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A reporter was asking what legal authority the president has to do so.
“I spent six years in the White House briefing room covering Ronald Reagan. I have to say, I never — and in the years since too — I never saw a White House press secretary act like that,” Wallace said to a panel on “Fox News Sunday.”
Donna Brazile, the former interim Democratic National Committee chair, responded that she personally knows McEnany to be an “extraordinary person” but criticized the “combative” approach she’d taken in her new role.
Wallace continued by playing another excerpt from Friday’s press briefing. During that clip, McEnany posed a series of questions ― complete with prepared slides ― that she said journalists should be asking about former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg labeled McEnany’s behavior “indefensible and grotesque.”
“What Donald Trump wants in a press secretary is a Twitter troll who goes on attack,” Golberg told Wallace. “Doesn’t actually care about doing the job they have, and instead wants to impress really an audience of one and make another part of official Washington another one of these essentially cable news and Twitter gladiatorial arenas.”
Wallace added that McEnany “isn’t acting like she’s working for the public” and acts instead like “what she used to be, which is a spokesperson for the Trump campaign.”
Another panelist, Josh Holmes, the former chief of staff for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), defended McEnany. He claimed her behavior was different from past press secretaries because any spokesperson in the Trump administration and campaign “finds themselves under constant attack by the press.”
“Let me just say, Sam Donaldson and me in the Reagan White House, we were pretty tough on the White House press secretaries and we never had our religious beliefs questioned or were lectured on what we should ask,” Wallace replied.
Wallace, a frequent and vocal Trump critic, was the subject of Trump Twitter outrage last month after a “Fox News Sunday” segment critical of his administration’s pandemic response.
His latest comments will likely come as another escalation in tensions with Trump. While some primetime Fox News personalities routinely stump for the president, negative coverage last week sent Trump into a Twitter tailspin against the network. On Monday, anchor Neil Cavuto had harshly criticized the president’s claim he’s using the unproven and potentially dangerous drug hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus.
Trump declared Monday he was “looking for a new outlet” and on Thursday complained that Fox News was “doing nothing” to help him get re-elected in November. And on Friday, he raged at the network for airing a poll that showed him trailing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
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