Donald Trump reacted to an announcement that Fox News anchor Bret Baier scored an interview with Kamala Harris by blasting him and the network as “soft” on Democrats.
The Harris camp, as RedState reported earlier today, has agreed to an interview with Baier to be aired Wednesday in which she will field questions for a brief 25-30 minutes.
The “Special Report” anchor has long been viewed as a more straight news-based host for Fox. Trump, though, doesn’t see it that way. He suggests Baier’s selection as the interviewee is purposeful, an attempt to give Harris the easiest foil.
“Lyin’ Kamala Harris has wisely chosen Bret Baier, of FoxNews, to do a much-needed interview, because he is considered to be ‘Fair & Balanced,’ though often very soft to those on the ‘cocktail circuit’ Left,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform.
He then dug into the network as a whole.
“I would have preferred seeing a more hard-hitting journalist, but Fox has grown so weak and soft on the Democrats, constantly polluting the airwaves with unopposed Kamala Representatives, that it all doesn’t matter anymore,” he added.
Baier also popped up on social media to push back against assertions that Fox News must have made concessions in order to get Harris on board with the interview.
“Not true. No concessions,” he said on X.
Not true. No concessions. Thanks for watching while you have. https://t.co/Z9Uh5ZmkkW
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) October 14, 2024
As further evidence of Trump’s disdain for moderate journalists on Fox News, he blasted Neil Cavuto for hosting Ian Sams, Senior Spokesman for the Harris campaign, on his show earlier today.
“How much time does Ian Sams, Senior Advisor to Lyin’ Kamala Harris, spend on FoxNews?” he openly wondered while accusing Cavuto of having him on the show “unopposed.”
Sams’ appearance saw him try to divert attention from tensions between President Biden and Kamala Harris by discussing the protests on January 6th.
Sams also reiterated a false claim that Trump hasn’t had a mainstream media interview in over a month, part of the Harris camp’s attempts to portray him as “hiding” from the public.
The GOP nominee just appeared for an interview with Maria Bartiromo on the same network as Baier and Cavuto on Sunday.
“Neil Cavuto has one of the worst shows on Television—and the worst rated on FoxNews,” said Trump. “The people on Fake News CNN are better!”
While we wouldn’t go that far, very few left-leaning networks are willing to give Trump or people in his orbit air time to push their policies and platforms the way Fox does with Democrats. When they are given air time, Trump supporters are typically browbeaten by a panel of three or four opposing viewpoints.
THE LIE: It’s been a month since Donald Trump did a mainstream media interview.
THE TRUTH: Trump was on Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
This is real rich coming from Kamala Harris who hasn’t held a press conference in 85 days. pic.twitter.com/fn2HI50paq
— KamalaHQLies (@KamalaHQLies) October 14, 2024
Baier has previously raised the ire of Team Trump after the network decided to call Arizona extremely early for Biden during the 2020 presidential election.
Fox, you may recall, put Arizona in the win column for Biden well before other mainstream networks were willing to concede.
Baier discussed the call made by Fox in leaked text messages between him and former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. Carlson was irate over the network’s call.
“See if there’s any way I could help calm viewers down,” Carlson pressed. “When Trump loses, he’s going to blame us. That’s going to be very bad.”
Baier replied that he would urge election night executives to slow their calls going forward. But after Arizona, the damage was already done.
“We have been pushing for answers,” Baier said. “I have pressed them to slow. And I think they will slow walk Nevada. The votes don’t come in until tomorrow.”
Trump declined an invitation to debate on Fox News later this month, with Baier and Martha MacCallum as moderators.
“There will be no rematch!” he insisted.
