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Trump Rips Fox News at Rally One Day After Calling Into It

FRENEMIES

The former president decided to spend some time on Sunday airing his grievances on the network—a day after he phoned them.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump spent some of his precious final moments in the 48 hours before the election that could propel him back to the White House airing his grievances at the network working to get him there for not broadcasting his lies about the election he lost. “If you even mention the fact that there‘s cheating in an election, they turn you off,” Trump told a crowd in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Sunday. “I mean, this is supposed to be one of our brave, very brave networks. I won‘t mention which, but you could imagine.” Trump was ostensibly referring to Fox News, the conservative network he‘s made both hero and villain throughout the final months of his campaign. He‘s complained in recent weeks of Fox News airing Democratic attack ads against him and for featuring Kamala Harris’ press secretary Ian Sams, but that hasn’t stopped him from appearing alongside hosts like Sean Hannity, Harris Faulkner, and on Saturday, calling into Fox & Friends for 30 minutes. Fox News typically clarifies Trump’s 2020 election lies after the network had to pay $787 million in a legal settlement for platforming them.