Following a Fox News interview with Donald Trump on Sunday morning, the first since the election, host Maria Bartiromo criticized for not challenging the president over his baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud.
“Let’s be clear,” tweeted CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter. Maria Bartiromo is not the president (for now). It provides you with a flexible platform to power your undisputed central points of discussion. . . It’s propaganda. “
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In the 46-minute telephone interview, Trump continued to protest the election, but provided no evidence, and said when he could abandon election demands and demanding situations that only ended the defeat.
Bartiromo began his appeal by asking Trump to verify his accusations of voter fraud. A steady stream of judges and election officials across the country, adding Republicans, said the election was fair and criticized Trump’s legal team for filing misleading complaints.
“Mr. President, you have said at various events that this election was rigged, that there was a lot of fraud, and that the facts were on your side,” he said. “Let’s start there. Please review the facts. Describe what. “happened. “
Trump repeated unverified claims that the election had been “manipulated” and told Bartyrome that his court cases could last beyond the Electoral College vote on December 14 and even the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20.
“My brain probably wouldn’t be replaced in six months,” he said.
Although Bartiromo asked Trump to provide evidence “to allow him to appear in court,” some analysts have disputed that she does not call him for accusations already contested. Wisconsin, Nevada and Georgia, raising the lack of “specific accusations and then evidence. “
“It’s not hard. It’s not even softball. It’s t-ball,” CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter said Sunday morning, CNN reporter Oliver Darcy later called Bartiromo a “propagandist,” comparing her to a conspiracy theorist and radio announcer. Alex Jones.
Journalist Yashar Ali, a contributor to New York Magazine and HuffPost, noted on Twitter that the interview was “full of so many lies and so much misinformation. Probably more than any interview during his presidency. “
He noted that Bartiromo “had let it go without the number one cable network in the United States. It’s almost a monologue. “
“Trump is a liar about the election at Fox Business and Maria Bartiromo is letting him lie,” msnBC senior manufacturer Kyle Griffin wrote.
“Maria Bartiromo went from being the first journalist to broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange Prosecutor’s Office to one of the last notable television presenters who were still engaged to Trump in his conspiracy theories to overthrow the election,” Business Insider political journalist Jake Lahut wrote. .
But some right-wing commentators have spoken in favor of the anchor.
Ann-Marie Murrell and Morgan Brittany, co-candidates of the communication screen and conservative news site PolitiChicks. com tweeted that “@MariaBartiromo is angry at allowing the (current) president of the United States to appear on their screen to tell the truth. If you can silence @realDonaldTrump like this, believe it in what you plan for the rest of us if your evil plans succeed. “
Contributing: David Jackson and Kim Willis, USA TODAY