ABC Information has a blockbuster interview with the President of america airing Tuesday. However neither of its famous person journalists can be doing the primetime tête-à-tête with Donald Trump, Web page Six has discovered, due to their bitter histories with POTUS.
Trump’s White Home agreed to do the piece to mark the conclusion of his first 100 days in workplace. However insiders say that it was clear — a technique or one other — to some concerned within the talks that it simply wasn’t gonna occur with “ABC World Information Tonight” anchor David Muir or chief political correspondent George Stephanopoulos sitting throughout from him.
Trump has despised Muir since September of final yr after his debate in opposition to Democrat candidate Kamala Harris, which was hosted by ABC Information and moderated by Muir and colleague Linsey David.
The pair forcefully fact-checked Trump and had been accused of lobbing softballs at Harris whereas grilling the Republican candidate.
Trump fumed afterward that the talk was “one in opposition to three,” known as Muir “not legit,” “an actual light-weight” and “pretend information,” and even steered that he ought to sue the anchor. He added that Muir’s “hair was higher 5 years in the past.”
Trump slammed the anchor — who has fronted ABC’s flagship information present since 2014 — over the incident once more simply earlier than his January swearing-in, calling Muir “so unhealthy” and alleging that Muir had misstated crime statistics when fact-checking him.
The president will as a substitute be interviewed by ABC’s senior nationwide correspondent Terry Moran.
A TV insider advised us, “It’s nuts that it’s not Muir. And giving it to somebody that folks have barely heard of? A primetime unique with the President?”
In the meantime, the Disney-owned community additionally agreed in December 2024 to settle a defamation lawsuit that Trump filed over remarks that Stephanopoulos made concerning the judgement within the author E. Jean Carroll’s case in opposition to Trump. (Stephanopoulos was stated to be incensed by the pay-out).
