Former President Trump has continually called out David Muir after the controversial debate moderation during the face-off between him and Vice President Kamala Harris in September. Trump has suggested that Muir deserves to “have his ratings go down” and has lost “all credibility” after his apparent bias was put on display during the presidential debate hosted by ABC News.
During a recent press conference, former President Trump stated, “A lot of people standing right over there will tell you exactly what it was. We’ll show you what it was. David Muir has lost all credibility. The other person, I never heard of her. I never want to hear of her. She was terrible. I don’t know how she ever got her job in the first place, but we have a country to save, and we can’t have fake news like that. And his ratings deserve to go down.”
The American Tribune has reported extensively on Trump’s criticism against Muir and ABC News surrounding the controversial fact-checks against him. “It is a totally false story that I am going to sue lightweight anchor David Muir of ABC FAKE NEWS, perhaps the worst and most dishonorable network in broadcasting!” Trump previously wrote on Truth Social. “Despite an unfair and unethical 3 on 1, I easily won the recent Debate. My sole focus is to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he added.
In other comments, Trump called Muir a lightweight, saying, “And during the debate, I mentioned that and David Muir, a real lightweight. I had one against three, but I think we did great. But David Muir of ABC, fake news, when I said that crime is way up in our country, he corrected me, he corrected me and so much and it was right what I said.”
Asserting that moderator refused to fact-check Kamala Harris during the debate, Trump said, “He didn’t correct [Vice President Kamala Harris] one time, and what she said was wrong, absolutely wrong.” Trump highlighted several points in which Harris should’ve been fact-checked, stating, “So many different— Charlottesville, she was wrong, all of the different things, almost everything she said, and she was never corrected. But he corrected me on crime. He said, ‘No, crime has not gone up.’ I said crime has gone up massively. He said, ‘I’d like to state for the record that crime has not gone up.’”
Trump also claimed to have had a deal with ABC where they would not interject and fact-check during the debate. “Now you don’t know this, but we had a deal with ABC that there will be no corrections of any kind, and they violated the deal. Why? Because they’re bad people, and they’re fake news,” Trump said. “So he did it many times to me during the debate. He violated the deal,” he claimed.
He continued, “That’s the deal, because you can take anything and try and make up stories with it. We had a deal where that wouldn’t happen. You could do whatever you wanted as soon as the debate was over, but he did it in total violation of what our agreement was. And a lot of people standing right over there will tell you exactly what it was, will show you what it was. David Muir has lost all credibility.”
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