Former President Donald Trump lamented on Fox News’s Gutfeld that he didn’t “go after” ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump said he wanted to be “elegant,” so refrained from doing so.
“I think my only regret is that I wanted to be elegant, and I didn’t want to go after the anchors,” Trump said. “I wish I did, in a way.”
"I think my only regret is that I wanted to be elegant, and I didn't want to go after the anchors. I wish I did, in a way," Trump said on Gutfeld about his debate with VP Harris. pic.twitter.com/CpUcui22v5
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Trump has contended that the ABC News moderators were unfair to him and offered more fact checks to him than Harris. “I thought that was my best Debate, EVER, especially since it was THREE ON ONE,” he wrote on Truth Social after the debate.
While he could’ve avoided “going after” the moderators directly, he did clash with them more than once. At one point, Muir corrected Trump’s claim that the country is undergoing rising crime rates with FBI statistics showing the opposite.
Trump responded: “They didn’t include the cities with the worst crime! It was a fraud!” A new DOJ report showed the FBI statistics had holes because less than half of police departments provided complete crime reports, bolstering Trump’s argument.
In the rest of Trump’s interview with Gutfeld, he touched on a range of topics including his time on Howard Stern’s radio show, immigration, and aliens. On the latter point, Trump recounted a time he spoke with F-22 pilots who were amazed at the speed of alleged round objects they saw fly faster than their crafts.
He also joked about his second assassination attempt in which a gunman nearly had a shot at the former president while he was playing golf. “I always said golf is a very dangerous game,” Trump cracked.
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Trump also noted that the Teamsters declined to endorse Harris or himself, but that a poll of their members favored him. He noted the same at Wednesday’s New York rally.
At the same rally, Trump said he would visit Springfield, Ohio, where he accused people of “eating the dogs” and “eating the cats” in a viral phrase during his debate with Harris. Muir would correct Trump on that, saying the city manager said no such evidence has been found to point to that, leading to another contentious moment.
