Trump rages at ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, demands network 'pay' him more as payout
WASHINGTON, DC: Donald Trump is demanding that ABC News fire Donna Brazile after she criticized his administration.
The president also insisted the network cough up “more” cash on top of the multimillion-dollar settlement it had already paid him.
The tirade hit Truth Social on Sunday, August 31, just hours after former DNC chair Brazile took her turn blasting Trump on 'This Week'. She ripped into his controversial move to yank Secret Service protection from former Vice President Kamala Harris, slapping it as “petty” and “vindictive.”
She also went after his trade game, warning that his tariffs had “created a level of uncertainty that the American people can’t afford.”
Trump calls Donna Brazile 'dumb as a rock'
That was all Donald Trump needed to tee off.
“Why does Fake News ABC’S This Week With George Slopadopolus have Low IQ ‘commentator’ Donna Brazile on the show?” Trump raged in his post. “Wasn’t she totally discredited when she gave Crooked Hillary Clinton the questions to a Debate??? Wasn’t she FIRED by Fake News CNN for so doing???”
The commander-in-chief went on to demand ABC cut loose both Brazile and fellow panel regular Chris Christie.
“Why would ABC ‘News’ hire such a dumb retread? Check out her disastrous interview with Megyn Kelly from years ago – A total Classic!!! Donna is dumb as a rock, and a liar besides,” he wrote. “She, and Sloppy Chris Christie, should be fired from a highly discredited ABC Fake News. They just paid me $16,000,000 for ‘inaccurate’ reporting, now they should pay me more!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.”
The $16 million 'fake news' check
Donald Trump was referring to the eye-popping $16 million payout he squeezed from ABC after 'This Week' host George Stephanopoulos falsely claimed he was “found liable for rape” in the E Jean Carroll civil case.
The network even made a rare on-air apology and agreed to toss in funds for Trump’s presidential library. But the 47th president clearly thinks they still owe him.
He’s also been going after the broader media, accusing outlets of ganging up on him.
Just last week, he branded ABC and NBC “the most biased” networks in America and even floated the idea that the FCC should yank their broadcast licenses.
Donna Brazile’s rocky road, Chris Christie in the crosshairs
Donna Brazile, 65, quit as interim DNC chair in 2016 after hacked emails revealed she slipped debate questions to Hillary Clinton during the primaries.
CNN booted her shortly after. By 2019, she’d reemerged on ABC as a contributor and has been a regular face on Sunday shows ever since.
On Sunday’s broadcast, she blasted him for pulling the Secret Service off Harris.
“This is petty, this is vindictive, and it makes the American people less safe,” she said.
When it came to tariffs, she doubled down. “Donald Trump’s tariffs have created a level of uncertainty that the American people can’t afford," she alleged.
Christie, meanwhile, remains Trump’s favorite punching bag. The former New Jersey governor and onetime ally has been trashing him regularly on ABC panels. Last month, Trump even threatened to push for a renewed federal probe into Christie’s role in the 2013 “Bridgegate” scandal.
Brazile declined the New York Post’s request for comment.
