Once upon a time, President Trump appeared to consider Fox News to be a stalwart political ally. However, the station's gradually critical coverage of the administration appears to be provoking his outrage.
Donald Trump has upped the ante of his attacks on Fox News by calling for one of the outlet's journalists, Jennifer Griffin, to be “fired” after she alleged to have gotten hold of information confirming that the president mocked dead American soldiers.
Ms. Griffin, a Fox News National Security Correspondent, tweeted a long thread in which she claimed to have spoken to “two former sr [senior] Trump admin officials” who confirmed that the president “disparaged veterans,” adding that he, “did not want to drive to honour American war dead at Aisne-Marne Cemetery outside of Paris.”
Ms. Griffins also claims that, “according to one former senior Trump administration official: When the President spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, ‘it was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker'.”
In response, Trump issued his own Tweet, saying, “Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting. Never even called us for comment. Fox News is gone!”
Ms. Griffin's comments come hot on the heels of an explosive expose by Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist with The Atlantic magazine, who alleged that knowledgable sources claimed that during a visit to Paris in 2018 Trump refused to pay…
