Former President Donald Trump took aim at ABC News over its handling of the presidential debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris.
During the debate hosted by ABC News on Tuesday, Trump received multiple fact checks from ABC News’s David Muir and Linsey Davis, who moderated the debate, while Harris did not. In a phone interview with Fox and Friends, Trump called the ABC-hosted debate a “rigged deal” and said he did “great” despite it being “3-to-1.”
“I have a list of seven different things, and she could say anything she wanted, every time I spoke, and my stuff was right, they’d correct you. I thought it was terrible,” Trump said. “From the standpoint of ABC, they’re the most dishonest, in my opinion, the most dishonest news organization. And that’s saying a lot because they’re all essentially really dishonest.”
When asked why he believes moderators did not fact-check Harris during the debate on false statements she made, Trump responded that he believed it was because they were “dishonest,” and he quipped that ABC should lose its Federal Communications Commission license to broadcast over the air due to its handling of the debate.
“Because they’re dishonest and because I think ABC took a big hit last night. I mean, to be honest — they’re a news organization. They have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that,” Trump said, adding that the network “lost a lot of credibility.”
The former president also praised CNN for its handling of the June debate with President Joe Biden, calling that network’s debate “much more honorable.”
Shortly after the debate ended, Harris’s campaign called for another one, but Trump’s campaign has not been quick to say whether it would do another debate. When asked directly about doing another debate, Trump said he was unsure.
“I’d be less inclined to because we had a great night. We won the debate. We had a terrible, a terrible, network,” Trump said while continuing his criticism of ABC News.
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Trump’s campaign proposed three debates, including one hosted by NBC News on Sept. 25, while the Harris campaign has pushed for another debate in October with an unspecified network.
Both campaigns have agreed to a vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1.