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- Fox News’ Laura Ingraham suggested Tuesday night that President Donald Trump was ambushed by voters who asked timely questions during an ABC News town hall.
- Trump was questioned about everything from why he downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic to his stance on insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions.
- The president groped through town hall, came off unprepared, and repeatedly pushed false information.
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Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham accused ABC News of ambushing President Donald Trump Tuesday night after his disastrous city hall performance during which voters asked him basic questions.
“The president loves to mix with everyone, but this is an ambush,” Ingraham said.
Undecided voters in Pennsylvania questioned Trump on a number of issues, including why he decided not to follow a national mask mandate amid the coronavirus pandemic, his take on the racial divide in the US, and his position on protections from pre-existing diseases. Trump was also asked why he downplayed the threat of COVID-19 to the public.
—Torabi Tool (@Acc) September 16, 2020
The president often stumbled over his responses, offering blatantly false information to voters. Trump, for example, suggested that it was former Vice President Joe Biden’s responsibility to implement a national mask mandate. But the Democratic presidential candidate has not been in government since January 2017, and the coronavirus outbreak began less than a year ago.
“A good question is, questions, like Joe Biden. They said, ‘We’re going to do a national mandate on masks,'” Trump said. “But he didn’t, I mean, he never did.”
—Torabi Tool (@Acc) September 16, 2020
The questions asked of Trump Tuesday night were pertinent and touched on issues that affect virtually all Americans.
But Ingraham, who like other Fox News opinion presenters tends to throw softballs at Trump during interviews, insisted the city council was created to deliberately make the president look bad.
“Why did the president decide to do this, to open up a room basically full of resistance to Trump?” Ingraham said about the city council and the undecided voters who participated in it.
Rather than criticize Trump’s apparent lack of preparation and loathing for events, Ingraham described the city council as a Democratic plot against the president.
“The DNC could have put it all in, too,” he said.
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