Donald Trump calls for ‘everyone at ABC’ to be fired after his presidential debate against Kamala Harris
US Elections: Donald Trump demanded the firing of “everyone at ABC Fake News” during his Tuesday presidential debate with Kamala Harris. The Republican contender expressed his displeasure with the network in a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday night.
“I’m just now getting credit for having a GREAT DEBATE from people. Voters and voter polls demonstrated this, but the Fake News Media failed to give it the proper credit. He stated, “Now they are saying, WOW, and they are seeing the results with Evangelicals, independent voters, and more.”
“Keep in mind that I was debating three people, not just one. “Everyone at ABC Fake News ought to be fired, as their two insignificant ‘anchors’ have brought shame to the organization.”
Trump says that anchors Linsey Davis and David Muir harshly fact-checked him. Throughout the discussion, he was fact-checked five times, while Harris was never.
Moderators intervened after Trump made a false assertion during a discussion over late-term abortion that Tim Walz, Harris’s running mate, had said that “execution after birth is OK.”
Moderator Davis responded by accurately stating that “no state in this country allows the killing of a baby after it is born.”
Trump repeated a false, widely circulated rumor that claimed Haitian immigrants kidnapped and were “eating the dogs,” “eating the cats,” and “eating the pets of the people that live” in Springfield, Ohio. Co-moderator Muir fact-checked Trump throughout the immigration topic.
“I just want to clarify here; you bring up Springfield, Ohio, and ABC News did contact the city manager there,” Muir remarked. “He told us they had no credible reports of pets or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals in the immigrant community.”
Trump disputed Muir’s fact-check, claiming he had “seen people on television” make the ludicrous assertion; therefore, it must be genuine. He then went on to declare the denial was “a good thing to say for a city manager.”
Shortly after Trump said that crime rates are “through the roof” but lower elsewhere in the globe, Muir fact-checked him once again.
When Muir said, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says that overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country,” Trump retorted, calling the FBI’s numbers “defrauding statements.”
After Trump incorrectly said that there was “so much proof” that he did not properly lose to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, Muir conducted another fact-checking investigation.
“We should just point out here as clarification… 60 cases in front of many judges, many of them Republicans, looked at it and said there was no widespread fraud,” Muir added.
When Trump claimed that Harris’s terrible negotiation skills with Russian President Vladimir Putin were the reason for the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, Muir provided one more fact check. “That’s the kind of talent we have with her,” he remarked. Harris has never met Putin and was never sent to engage with him.
Trump cited Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt in a different tweet on Wednesday night, explaining that Hurt believed Harris lost the debate because she was unable to provide sufficient evidence to support the American people’s belief in her.
“Last night, she lost the debate! The whole burden is on her, which is why she lost it,” Trump wrote. “The onus is entirely on her to make the case as to why people should trust her, and she failed to do it last night!”
A significant portion of Newsweek readers, Newsweek writers, several commentators, and even Republican strategists pronounced the debate to be a Harris triumph, despite Trump’s conviction that he had won.
Trump has shared many photos of surveys conducted by right-wing news outlets, including Newsmax and The Daily Caller, on his Truth Social account. The polls revealed that a significant proportion of participants believed Trump would win.
