Trump Lashes Out At Reporter Who Pushes Back On His Newest ‘Rigged’ Election Lie | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out but once more at one of many girls who covers him as a result of she requested a query he didn’t like.

“PBS NewsHour” White House correspondent Liz Landers requested why the FBI seized election data in Arizona.

“Well, they probably thought the election was rigged,” Trump mentioned, repeating his debunked conspiracy principle concerning the 2020 election, which he misplaced.

“It wasn’t rigged, though,” Landers replied.

“Oh, really?” Trump shot again. “How do you know?”

Landers was prepared with some receipts.

“Your own attorney general in 2020 said that there was not measurable voter fraud to change the outcome of the election,” she reminded him, referring to a conclusion from then-Attorney General Bill Barr, who was appointed to that place by Trump himself.

Trump wasn’t having it.

“You don’t think it was rigged? I think it was rigged,” Trump mentioned. “If you say it wasn’t rigged, you’re a rotten reporter.”

Landers requested the president for proof, however he walked away.

While Trump has at all times had a testy relationship with each female and male reporters, he’s been particularly demeaning towards the ladies who cowl him, notably in current months.

Last month, he known as CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “the worst reporter” and scolded her for not smiling. He has additionally attacked Collins on social media as “always Stupid and Nasty.”

Also final month, he instructed Washington Post reporter Natalie Allison that she had a “very bad attitude.”

Last 12 months, he responded to a query from CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes by asking: “Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?” The president additionally attacked Katie Rogers of The New York Times as “ugly” after she co-authored a report on his lighter schedule as he ages.

In addition, he accused ABC’s Mary Bruce of asking what he known as “a horrible, insubordinate, and just a terrible question,” and insulted Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey with a now-infamous “Quiet, piggy!”