Donald Trump Gets Fact-Checked To His Face By Laura Ingraham During Fox Interview

Trump was fact-checked this week in a surprising venue.


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Regarding Donald Trump’s relationship with Fox News, he has historically been welcomed there for friendly softball interviews with Sean Hannity. He’s also gotten very upset when he hasn’t gotten that treatment, such as his famous confrontation with Megyn Kelly in 2015 and his rage when Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden on election night in 2020. For a time early in the primary season in 2023, Trump was reportedly “soft-banned” by Fox News, which stood until it was clear that he would likely win the Republican nomination again.

Still, even after all that, it can be surprising when Fox hosts challenge Trump on the air.

Over the weekend, Trump was interviewed on Fox by Laura Ingraham, long a Trump ally, to the point where she spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2016. The interview took place ahead of the former president’s rally in Butler, Pa., and during the interview, Trump accused Kamala Harris of avoiding North Carolina following Hurricane Helene.

“She shouldn’t be at fundraisers. She’s at fundraisers, and her teleprompter went off, and she didn’t do well with the teleprompter off,” Trump said on Fox. “North Carolina is so bad.”

Ingraham, somewhat surprisingly, interjected to correct Trump.

“She was there today for three hours, I believe,” Ingraham said of Harris, who really did visit North Carolina.

Also in the interview, Trump said that “they’re offering people $750,” referring to the stipend handed out by FEMA following the disaster. Ingraham interjected again, making clear that the $750 figure was “for immediate needs.”

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The interview took place within days of Trump backing out of what CBS said was an agreement to appear on 60 Minutes, in part because he refused to submit to fact-checking, and due to a demand for an apology from anchor Lesley Stahl, about a statement she supposedly made in 2020, about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Kamala Harris appeared for the interview, which aired on CBS on Monday night, which has been customary for presidential candidates since the 1960s.

“60 Minutes fact checks every story it broadcasts,” CBS said in their report about the dispute.

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