Mediaite reports:
Fox News cut away from former President Donald Trump’s rally speech right as the 2024 candidate began praising his interview with Tucker Carlson and blasting the network’s ratings on the first GOP debate. It wasn’t until the former president began talking about his appearance on Carlson’s show, 13 minutes into his speech, that the network promptly cut away.
“You know, they’re wasting a lot of time with these ridiculous debates that nobody’s watching,” Trump said about Fox.
“Their last debate was the lowest rated debate in history. That’s a good compliment. Now, what was I doing — I was someplace else, wasn’t I? I was doing another interview. We had 271 million people listening to the Tucker Carlson interview. That’s an all-time record,” Trump said.
Read the full article. Trump’s oft-repeated claim of the 271 million viewers has been widely debunked as inflated by as much as 100 times the actual figure.
Fox News Quickly Cuts Away From Trump Speech After He Rips Into Network and Touts Tucker Carlson https://t.co/pb7oZAkrMm
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