President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News, calling the broadcaster “fake news” and refusing to answer a question from one of its reporters in retribution for a controversial JD Vance interview.
On ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos cut off the vice president for not answering questions about Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, reportedly accepting a $50,000 bribe last year.
At a White House briefing on Tuesday, Trump made a point of not answering a shouted question from an ABC reporter, saying, “You’re ‘ABC Fake News.’”
He added, “I don’t take questions from ‘ABC Fake News’ after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States.”
Earlier in the briefing, Trump called Stephanopoulos a “nasty person,” and said it was “inappropriate to cut off a highly respected vice president of the United States mid-sentence.”
