President Donald Trump typically goes to Fox News to be treated with deference, but in a Thursday interview with host Harris Faulkner, he became clearly uncomfortable when she uncharacteristically challenged him.
Faulkner usually promotes the party line on Fox News, rarely deviating from standard GOP talking points as her colleague Chris Wallace does, on occasion. That’s why it was particularly surprising when Faulkner not only pushed Trump on a difficult issue but corrected his mistaken claim.
“I’m a black woman,” she said, clearly ramping up to something. “I’m a mom.”
Then she brought up what was clearly on her mind — Trump’s incendiary use of the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” at the beginning of the George Floyd protests. Continue reading.