‘You’re Not Credible’; Trump TORCHES ‘ABC Fake News,’ ‘Terrible Person’ Mary Bruce

After years of playing the role of lead Biden regime apple polisher and undoubtedly being one of the most biased White House reporters, ABC chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce was excoriated Tuesday by President Trump over her questions about Trump family financials and the Epstein files as well as missives to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman about the country’s roles in both 9/11 and the murder of a pro-Qatar columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Trump not only blasted Bruce as “a terrible person and terrible reporter” and “not credible,” but said ABC is “fake news” and “one of the worst in the business” that should lose their FCC license.

Bruce started with questions about the Trump Organization, Khashoggi, and 9/11:

Is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you’re President? Is that a conflict of interest? And Your Royal Highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office.

Trump proceeded to demand Bruce tell him which outlet she works for and, after four tries, she told him ABC News.

 

“Fake news, ABC fake news. One of the worst. One of the worst in the business. But I’ll answer your question,” Trump replied.

Trump spent the next minute insisting he’s had “nothing to do with the family business,” “[t]hey’ve done very little with Saudi Arabia,” and he’s more worried about “mak[ing] American very successful,” but concluded by blasting Bruce for “embarrass[ing] our guest by asking a question like that.”

While such press freedoms don’t exist in Saudi Arabia if Bruce had tried to pull it there (and likely behind a veil), bin Salman interjected to give an answer to both (click “expand”):

If it’s okay, just since she asked, Mr. President, please allow me to answer. You know, I feel painful about, you know, the families of 9/11 in America. But, you know, we have to focus on reality. Reality based on CIA documents and based on a lot of documents that Osama bin Laden, he used Saudi people in that event for one main purpose is to destroy this relation, to destroy the American-Saudi relation. That’s the purpose of 9/11. So, whoever buying that, that means they are helping Osama bin Laden’s purpose of destroying this relation. He know [sic] that strong relation between America and Saudi Arabia is bad for extremism. It’s bad for terrorism. And we have to prove him wrong and to build our relation, to continue developing our relations. It’s critical in the safety of the world. It’s critical against extremism and terrorism. About the journalist, It’s really painful to hear, you know, anyone that been losing his life for, you know, no real purpose or nothing illegal way. And it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation, etc. in Saudi Arabia and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that. And it’s painful and it’s a huge mistake. And we are doing our best that this doesn’t happen again.

Just over 20 minutes later, Bruce came back with the story she and her colleagues are using as a cudgel against Trump, hoping it ends his presidency: the Epstein files: “Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?”

Trump fired back that while he didn’t mind “the question” itself, what he disliked was Bruce’s “attitude” and “the way you ask these questions.”

 

Trashing Bruce as both “a terrible person and a terrible reporter,” Trump rewound to her earlier questions to bin Salman:

You start off with a man who is highly respected, asking him a horrible, insubordinate, and just a terrible question. And you could even ask that same exact question nicely. You’re all psyched....You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.

Trump then addressed Bruce’s question about Epstein with what’s become a standard but important answer that “I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein” and “threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert.”

Citing Democrats like Bill Clinton and Larry Summers having had deep ties with Epstein, Trump said Bruce and her cabal “don’t even talk about those people” because it would go against this “Democrat hoax.”

Trump really lowered the boom when he argued ABC should lose its FCC broadcast license and alluded to studies conducted here at the Media Research Center into positive-negative coverage on the broadcast networks:

[P]eople are wise to your hoax and ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the the perpetrators. And I’ll tell you something. I’ll tell you something. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it’s so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that, because I think when you come in and when you’re 97 percent negative to Trump, and then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means obviously your news is not credible and you’re not credible as a reporter.

Trump even recalled another liberal political figure the press should look into is far-left megadonor Reid Hoffman, who even went to Epstein Island: “I know he spends a lot of money on the radical left...He’s a sleazebag, and those are the people — but they don’t get any press. They don’t get any news.”

Trump closed with another few zingers for Bruce and her “meanness” that are proof she needs “to go back and learn how to be a reporter”: “You’re not after the radical left because you’re a radical left network. But I think the way you ask a question with the anger and the meanness is terrible. You ought to go back and learn how to be a reporter. No more questions from you.”

To see the relevant transcript from the White House media availability on November 18, click here.