Trump was accused of having a City Hall that was “rigged” – in his favor

If you need further confirmation that most President-elects Donald Trumpthe media’s complaints were psychological predictionLook no further than a forthcoming book reporting that he fielded questions from a Fox News insider before the network’s Iowa town hall last January.

Then-candidate Trump sat down to talk with the Fox host Bret Baier And Martha MacCallum before a studio audience in Des Moines, just days before the state’s Republican primary. Some of Trump’s advisers did not want him to attend the event, Politico Alex Isenstadt reported in Revenge: The inside story of Trump’s return to poweraccording to Excerpts published by CNN on Wednesday. Some of these aides thought the conservative cable giant was too resistant and feared their candidate would not be seriously prepared for questioning.

However, “About thirty minutes before the town hall began,” a senior aide began receiving messages from an insider at Fox, Isenstadt wrote. Oh my god, the group thought. They are images of all the questions Trump will be asked and the planned follow-up questions, down to the exact wording. Jackpot prize. This is like a student going over a test before the exam begins.”

(Fox News told CNN that “while we don’t have any evidence this happened and Alex Isenstadt declined to release the images for fact-checking, we take these matters very seriously.” issue and plan to investigate if there is evidence of a breach within the network,” a Fox source familiar with the matter relayed Vanity fair that “if there was a violation, it wasn’t from Bret or Martha or the network’s highest editorial levels and that there was a complex and widespread digital footprint of all editorial material.”)

According to Isenstadt, Baier and MacCallum—There is no slippage when it comes to grilled Trump—intended to pressure the then-candidate over his business dealings and whether he would “reject political violence” and whether he would “focus on punishment ” in a second term or not.

“Trump is angry,” Isenstadt wrote in an excerpt previewed by CNN, and felt such questions constituted “attacks.” However, the reporter noted that “with questions in hand” before the live televised event, Trump’s team “discussed the answers.”

Indeed, if Trump gets the question first, it would be especially rich given his long history of strategically accusing pretty much every debate or town hall moderator of “bias” against him and such events are “cheat” to his opponent.

After the president is elected unanimous criticism ABC News argues against performance Kamala HarrisTrump repeatedly took aim at the executive David Muir And Linsey Daviscalling them “lowlifes” who deserved to be fired for verifying the truth about him in real time.

He has consistently worked with such umpires since the bygone days of his 2016 campaign. Trump infamously blew up Megyn Kellythen as a Fox News host, as a “bimbo” with “blood coming out of everywhere” after her tough questions during a Republican primary debate. After the first debate against Hillary ClintonTrump initially praised the NBC News executive Lester Holt for a “great job,” just to change his tune once polls showed he had lost the debate. “He asked me very unfair questions,” the president eventually complained.

In 2020, Trump called ABC Martha Raddatz “extremely unfair” and again complained about Fox News moderators, this time Chris Wallacewhom he labeled “a complete joke.”