Speaking in an explosive post on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump sounded off on Fox News, accusing it of not being supportive of him and trying to diminish support for him through, in his view, incorrect polls that show him losing ground to current President Joe Biden. The spat comes amidst a long run of FNC only being somewhat supportive of Trump and MAGA rather than all-in in the same way as Newsmax or One America News Network.
The poll at issue shows former President Trump losing ground to President Biden, with Biden making a three-point comeback from his devastatingly bad May polling results. Those showed him down one point against Trump, quite bad for a poll for the sitting president. Now, the Fox News poll shows Biden up two points, 50 to 48, a three-point swing.
Commenting on the poll’s results, Fox News Digital noted that the stabilized economic situation improved American outlooks on it, helping Biden. Also helping the president in the poll, Fox News Digital reported, were issues like Trump’s conviction in DA Bragg’s “hush money” trial against him and the immigration executive order that Biden signed.
Shredding the poll, which he referred to as “TRASH,” former President Trump wrote, “The latest Fox News poll is TRASH! They used a biased, Democrat-leaning sample of voters, polling more Biden 2020 voters than Trump 2020 voters to skew the results in favor of Crooked Joe. I am leading BIG in virtually every other poll, including in all of the key battleground states, like Wisconsin, where I just held a massive rally, and Pennsylvania, where I will be on Saturday.”
Continuing, he noted that immigration, an issue he is strong on, is top on the minds of American voters. He wrote, “Also, the #1 issue in this Country is not protecting democracy. It is INFLATION and IMMIGRATION! If it is protecting democracy, Trump is your best choice, because Crooked Joe Biden is the greatest threat to democracy in history with his Open Border and weaponization of our justice system against his political opponent, ME!”
Returned to Fox News, he argued that it has never been particularly fair to, by which he seemingly meant overtly supportive of, him, and vowed that, whatever it says, he will win. He wrote, “Fox News polls have never treated me, or MAGA, fairly! Don’t worry, we will WIN!!! Fox News should get rid of Paul Ryan, and get a new Pollster, but they won’t….”
Following that up in a second, shorter post that finished the thought, he noted that RealClearPolitics has him up in its polls on the election, saying, “….Real Clear Politics just came out and has me leading by a lot, especially in the all important Swing States. My best numbers yet, despite the Biden ‘Weaponization of Justice.’”
FNC isn’t the only media that Trump attacked. He also sounded off on Bill Maher, saying, “Bill Maher, the highly overrated “Star” of the ratings challenged show with the Fake, Loud and Obnoxious laughter pouring out of your set every few seconds, even when nothing was said that was funny (which is most of the time!), suffers from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. Republicans should stop using him as a reference point, his show is dead!”
He did, however, approvingly cite the Wall Street Journal, owned by Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, in another post on Truth. He said, “A big article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, along with virtually every legal scholar and expert, that I DID NOTHING WRONG on the D.A. Alvin Bragg case, it was only because my name is TRUMP that they went after me. A very detailed and interesting read, there was No Crime. Now it has just been announced that Alvin is dropping all charges against the Columbia Protesters, who took over the college, vandalized it, seriously assaulted police officers, and put many lives at risk — A two tiered system of justice!”
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