Donald Trump Fact-Checked to His Face by BrettBaier During Fox News Interview
Whenever Donald Trump sits down with Fox News, it usually turns into a softball interview. However, the ex-POTUS did not expect anchor Bret Baier to fact-check him to his face during a recent and unexpectedly hard-hitting interview.
During the Fox News interview, Trump started going off about the claims of ballot stuffing in the 2020 presidential elections. This is when Baier fact-checked the former president, pointing out, "You lost the 2020 election."
The Fox News host and anchor added, "There were recounts in all of the swing states. There was no significant widespread fraud."
Trump answered, "We were trying to get recounts, real recounts." However, Baier fact-checked him again, saying, "There were investigations of widespread corruption. There was not a sense of that. There were lawsuits, 50 of them, by your lawyers, some in front of judges, judges that you appointed, that came up with no evidence."
Trump then tried to claim that "Wisconsin practically admitted that it was rigged," before Baier noted that there were less than 475 cases of voter fraud in 2020. Only six of those came from battleground states like Wisconsin, where Trump filed all those cases and did not find widespread fraud.
According to Deadline, Trump then insisted, "You know why? They were not looking at the right things. They were counting ballots, not the authenticity of the ballots," before Baier pushed back again, asking the ex-POTUS, "Are you going to go tell this to that independent suburban voter?"
Donald Trump Claims 'Secret' Documents He Described on Tape Were Just Newspaper Clippings
In that same Fox News interview with Bret Baier, Donald Trump also talked about the tape where he was caught talking about one of the classified documents in his possession. That tape, which was recorded in his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, was presented as evidence that he possessed classified documents taken from the White House.
Trump can be heard in the recording flipping through papers while talking to the publisher and writer working on a book by his final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows. In that recording, Trump claimed to the two people with him that General Mark A. Milley wanted to attack Iran, with Trump adding that this was "secret" and "like, highly confidential."
However, in the interview, he said that "There was no document," and that the papers about Iran were not classified documents but were from "newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles."
According to the New York Times, the Milley document was mentioned in Mark Meadows's book. It was unattributed and stated as fact.
Judge Orders Donald Trump Lawyers Not to Release Evidence About Classified Documents Investigation
US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the ex-president's legal team not to release evidence presented in the classified documents case to the media or the public.
According to Reuters, the Trump attorneys are now also imposed with strict conditions on Trump's access to the materials, given his tendency to share things on social media. It specified that the former president "shall not retain copies" and that he may only review case materials "under the direct supervision of Defense Counsel or a member of Defense Counsel's staff."
The order happened after prosecutors asked the court to put conditions on Trump's access to evidence as he tends to share them and spin stories about the evidence to present in the court of public opinion.
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Written by: Rick Martin
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