“Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?” she asked.
Trump snapped and accused the reporter of being “insubordinate.”
“You know, it’s not the question that I mind, it’s your attitude,” he responded. “I think you are a terrible reporter. It’s the way you ask these questions.”
He continued, “You start off with a man who’s highly respected, asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question, and you could even ask that same exact question nicely.”
Trump then went on to say, though it’s unclear what he meant: “You’re all psyched. Somebody psychs you over at ABC, they’re gonna psych it,” before adding, “Uhh, you’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.”
Trump then repeated the now-familiar line that he “had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein” and claimed that he “threw him out of my club many years ago.”
Epstein himself would seem to disagree with that assessment of their relationship. In newly released emails, the late sex predator said Trump “knew about the girls” and surmised that Trump is “the dog that hasn’t barked” because ”[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him.”
The president concluded his rant by calling for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to take away ABC News’ broadcast license.
Trump intervened to call ABC “fake news” and whine that the press was “embarrassing our guest.”
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