Donald Trump goes to war with Fox News complaining that they stopped showing Congress’ police brutality hearing before Republican witness gave evidence
President Trump lashed out on Twitter after watching Fox News Channel cut away from Republican witnesses Wednesday testifying about policing on Capitol Hill.
‘Incredible! @FoxNews just took Congressional Hearing off the air just prior to important witness statements. More like CNN!!! Fox is lost!!!’ the president wrote.
Fox News Channel opted not to show the opening statement of Dan Bongino, a former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent who, more recently, became a conservative pundit and failed Republican Congressional candidate.
President Trump lashed out at Fox News Channel for cutting away from Republican witnesses testifying about policing before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday
Republican witness Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who is now a conservative radio host who has interviewed President Trump, used his testimony to plead with lawmakers not to defund police
Angela Underwood Jacobs, a Republican witness, and Philonise Floyd, a brother of George Floyd, are sworn in during a House Judiciary Committee hearing
It cut away as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was introducing Angela Underwood-Jacobs, a former Republican candidate for Congress whose brother Patrick was killed May 29 in Oakland, California.
‘Pat’ Jacobs was working as a contract security officer for the Department of Homeland Security, guarding the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, when he was shot during the riots following the death of George Floyd.
Bongino and Underwood-Jacobs were witnesses called to testify by House Republicans.
They were testifying alongside Democratic witnesses that included Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, who was put to rest in Houston Tuesday after inspiring two weeks of ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests around the globe.
President Trump made no mentioni of Philonise Floyd’s testimony.
Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, a prominent Capitol Hill ally of President Donald Trump, attacked Democrats for the ‘defund the police’ movement
President Trump was clearly tuned in to the hearing, as he testified his approval of Rep. Jim Jordan’s testimony
But he tweeted about statement’s made by Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and the ranking member of the Democratic-led Judiciary committee.
‘Great statement to Congress by @Jim_Jordan concerning Defunding (not!) our great Police,’ Trump tweeted at 10:33 a.m. ‘This Radical Left agenda is not going to happen. Sleepy Joe Biden will be (already is) pulled all the way Left. Many, like Minneapolis, want to close their Police Departments. Crazy!,’ Trump tweeted
Jordan had attacked Democrats for the recent emergence of the ‘defund police’ movement. Progressives have backed the idea not to scrap policing, but move funds from police departments to social programs. Calling it a ‘defund’-ing initiative, however, has allowed conservatives to quickly criticize it.
‘It is pure insanity to defund the police,’ Jordan said in his opening statement. ‘The fact that my Democratic colleagues won’t speak out against this crazy policy is just as frightening.’
The Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden has said he’s against ‘defunding’ the police, though would be open to using federal dollars to reward and punish police departments.
At 10:56 a.m., Trump sent out his tweet complaining that Fox News Channel had cut away.