During one particularly poignant moment in his interview with NBC News host Kristen Welker during his interview with her on “Meet The Press” that aired on Sunday, December 8, President-Elect Donald Trump tore into her to her face about her obvious left-wing bias, saying that she has hurt her career “badly” by not being neutral.
That particularly awesome moment came when Welker was harassing him with questions about the January 6 committee and Trump told her that she has potential as a journalist but has destroyed it by acting in such an unfair manner when dealing with people in which her obvious bias is so able to show through.
Such is the epic message that President-elect Trump delivered point-blank as Welker assaulted him during the interview with a flurry of questions about the January 6 committee matter, saying, “It’s amazing. I wish you could be a, you know, you have such potential. If you could be just non-biased. You hurt yourself so badly.”
That came around when Welker asked, “Let me ask you about some of this new reporting. NBC News is reporting that President Biden is considering giving preemptive pardons to the likes of Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff and Anthony Fauci. If President Biden doesn’t issue those pardons, do you think they are going to wish that he had?”
Trump, destroying Cheney, said, “I can tell you this about Cheney, and she’s a so-called Republican.
I think she hurt the Democrats terribly. When I saw that Kamala put Cheney out on the campaign trail, I said, that’s the end of Kamala. But Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson. And the people on the select committee are political thugs and, you know, groups.”
He continued, bashing the committee and saying, “So the select committee went through a year and a half of testimony where they deleted and destroyed and all evidence of that they found. You know why? Because Nancy Pelosi was guilty. Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 troops. You wouldn’t have had a Joe six because other people were guilty.”
He concluded, ” They lied. And what did they do? They deleted and destroyed a whole year and a half worth of testimony. Do you know that I can’t get. I think those people committed a major crime and Cheney was behind it, and so is Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee. We’re going to. For what they did. Yeah, Honestly, they should go to jail.” Watch Trump bash Welker and the committee here:
That’s not all Trump had to say about the press and its treatment of him, however. At another point, he bashed its especially unfair treatment by saying, “The press was obviously unfair to me, the press — no president has ever gotten treated by the press like I was. And yet I got more votes than any Republican candidate in history by far.”
He added, “The press has to straighten itself out, because honestly it’s lost all credibility. Based on the press I should’ve gotten no votes, none. And yet I got the highest number ever.” Turning back to Welker, he said, “And the reason is because I’m able to go on a show even like yours, even though you’re very hostile, I’m able to go on a show like yours — no, you are.” He added, “It’s fair only in that you allowed me to say what I say, But you know the answers, the questions are, you know, pretty nasty.”
Watch that here:
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