Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he “wanted to be elegant” during his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris last week, but he now regrets not “going after” ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.
Trump appeared on Fox News’s late-night show “Gutfeld!” where he was asked about the legacy media’s bias against him. The Republican nominee pointed to the ABC debate and the moderators’ numerous fact-checks against him as an example of the media treating him unfairly.
“I walked off that stage and thought I had the best debate, and I was very unfairly treated by the anchor. I’m not fans of those guys anymore, and you know, his hair was better five years ago,” Trump said referring to Muir.
Trump mentioned being fact-checked by Muir on rising crime rates, saying, “It turned out to be a false attack.” Muir cited FBI crime statistics to push back on Trump’s statement that crime rates across the country are rising. A DOJ report released just days after the debate, however, supported Trump’s claims, revealing that violent crime has spiked under the Biden-Harris administration.
Trump added that the moderators said nothing when Harris repeated the Left-wing lie about Trump’s Charlottesville comments.
“They didn’t correct her once, and they corrected me [on] everything I said practically — I think nine times or 11 times,” Trump said.
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Conservatives blasted the ABC News moderators during and after the debate, arguing that the fact-checks on Trump and none on Harris put the former president in an impossible-to-win fight.
The former president argued that in the days following the debate, more people realized that it “was all word salad” from Harris, adding that no matter how well he debated, the legacy media would claim that Trump “was nothing special.”
“I had people telling me that I’m wrong about things when I’m totally right. I was right about just about all of that stuff, and they were correcting me,” he said. “And 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.”
