Donald Trump Calls for ‘Everybody at ABC’ To Be Fired After Debate

Donald Trump has called for “everybody at ABC Fake News” to be fired after his presidential debate against Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
The Republican candidate posted on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday evening expressing his dissatisfaction with the network.
“People are just starting to give me credit for having a GREAT DEBATE. The Voters and Voter Polls showed it, but the Fake News Media wasn’t giving the credit that was due. Now they are seeing the results with independent Voters, Evangelicals, and more—and saying, WOW!” he wrote.
“Remember, I wasn’t debating one person, I was debating three. They should fire everybody at ABC Fake News, whose two lightweight ‘anchors’ have brought disgrace onto the company!”
Trump claims he was unfairly fact-checked by anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis. He was fact-checked five times during the debate while Harris was never fact-checked.
The moderators stepped in when Trump, while discussing late term abortion, falsely claimed that Harris’s running mate Tim Walz has said that “execution after birth is OK.”
Moderator Davis pushed back by correctly pointing out that “there is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
During a discussion on immigration, Trump was fact-checked by co-moderator Muir after repeating a false viral claim about Haitian immigrants abducting and “eating the dogs,” “eating the cats” and “eating the pets of the people that live” in Springfield, Ohio.
“I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio, and ABC News did contact the city manager there,” Muir said. “He told us they had no credible reports of pets or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals in the immigrant community.”
Trump objected to Muir’s fact-check, arguing that the baseless claim was true because he had “seen people on television” making the claim, before suggesting that the denial was “a good thing to say for a city manager.”
Muir fact-checked Trump again minutes later after the former president claimed that crime rates are “through the roof” but down in the rest of the world.
“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says that overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country,” Muir said, prompting Trump to claim that the FBI statistics are “defrauding statements.”
Muir fact-checked Trump again, after the former president falsely claimed that there was “so much proof” that he did not legitimately lose to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“We should just point out here as clarification … 60 cases in front of many judges, many of them Republican, looked at it and said there was no widespread fraud,” Muir said.
Muir fact-checked Trump one last time when he suggested the Ukraine war started because Harris did a poor job of negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “That’s the kind of talent we have with her,” he said. Harris was never sent to negotiate with Putin and has never met Putin.
In a separate post Wednesday night, Trump quoted Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt who explained how Harris lost the debate due to, in his view, failing to make a case for why the American people should trust her.
“She lost the debate last night! She lost it because the onus is completely on her,” Trump posted. “The onus is entirely on her to make the case as to why people should trust her, and she failed to do it last night!”
Despite Trump’s insistence that he won the debate, a significant majority of Newsweek readers, Newsweek writers, many analysts, and even Republican strategists declared it a Harris victory.
Trump has posted on his Truth Social account several screenshots of polls by right-wing news sites, including Newsmax and The Daily Caller, which reported that a large majority of respondents thought Trump won.
Newsweek has contacted Trump’s campaign via email for comment outside working hours.