Trump Lays Into Senior Fox Reporter Who Dared to Speak Out

Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized a senior Fox News reporter who recently took issue with the White House’s move to decide for itself which media outlets cover the administration.

“I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible. She should be working for CNN, not Fox,“ Trump complained on Truth Social about the network’s Senior White House Correspondent, who filled in as host of Fox News Sunday.

Trump added: ”Not surprisingly, I later found out that she’s a fan of the White House Correspondents Association!"

Last month, the White House announced that its own press team would determine who covers the president—a move that the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) strongly opposed.

So did Heinrich.

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“This move does not give the power back to the people—it gives power to the White House,” she wrote on X in response to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“WHCA has determined pools for decades because only representatives FROM our outlets can determine resources all those outlets have—such as staffing—in order to get the President’s message out to the largest possible audience, no matter the day or hour,” Heinrich added.

Trump, who has called the press the “enemy of the people,” isn’t the only high-profile conservative to have taken issue with Heinrich’s work. In fact, complaints have originated from within Fox itself.

After the 2020 election, when Heinrich fact-checked a Trump tweet about voting machine company Dominion that name-checked Sean Hannity’s show, Hannity and then-host Tucker Carlson flipped out.

Fox Reporter ‘Blindsided’ by Hannity’s Efforts to Fire Her‘WHAT THE F*CK?’

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According to documents filed by Dominion in its defamation lawsuit against Fox—which ended up settling for a hefty $787.5 million—Carlson messaged his primetime colleague: “Please get her fired. Seriously...What the f--k? I’m actually shocked...It needs to stop immediately, like tonight.”

Hannity replied that he had raised the apparent issue with CEO Suzanne Scott. “I just dropped a bomb,” he texted his team.

Heinrich’s tweet was deleted and replaced by one correcting Trump in reference to a segment on One America News Network instead.

Heinrich, according to CNN, was “blindsided” learning about her colleagues' discreet efforts to get her fired.

Trump has long fumed over coverage on Fox that he deems insufficiently flattering. Former anchors he targeted at the network include Neil Cavuto, Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace, who ended up doing what Trump urged for Heinrich: working at CNN.

Less common was ire directed at Fox Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume, who came to Heinrich’s defense Wednesday.

“I watched her too,” he wrote on X, responding to Trump. “She plays it straight, covering both sides of a story and has certainly played fair with you. You may have a case against some White House reporters, but not @JacquiHeinrich.”