{"id":15860,"date":"2025-11-20T05:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-attacks-abc-news-correspondent-in-angry-response-to-sharp-questions\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:20:35","slug":"trump-attacks-abc-news-correspondent-in-angry-response-to-sharp-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-attacks-abc-news-correspondent-in-angry-response-to-sharp-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump attacks ABC News correspondent in angry response to sharp questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/david-bauder\">             <picture data-crop=\"60x60\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><source width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dave Bauder stands for a portrait at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo\/Patrick Sison)\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/b083ae6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1024x1024+0+0\/resize\/60x60!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fdb%2F4c%2Fc9b0fa314f568ccd75afdd603f62%2Fbauder-david.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1763519601000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; President Donald Trump denounced ABC News&rsquo; Mary Bruce as a &ldquo;terrible reporter&rdquo; Tuesday and threatened the network&rsquo;s license to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House.<\/p>\n<div data-align-center>                    <bsp-figure>    <\/p>\n<figure data-openoverlay>                        <a id=\"image-590000\"><\/a>                             <picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><source width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABC News reporter Mary Bruce as a question as President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. Listening from left are Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright and David Broomell, Manufacturing Technology Manager at energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova, listen. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/c0c1a3b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5484x3656+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Ff4%2F2c%2Facedd05e628b85c66bc7d36afd32%2F69ab566b5a1742eaa12439e50461dbc1\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div><bsp-read-more data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption>\n<p>ABC News reporter Mary Bruce as a question as President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. Listening from left are Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright and David Broomell, Manufacturing Technology Manager at energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova, listen. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <template data-bsp-figure-overlay-template>                                <\/p>\n<div data-slidenumber=\"0\" data-slidescount=\"1\">                        <bsp-carousel-read-more data-show-less data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-id data-less-id>                            <\/p>\n<p>ABC News reporter Mary Bruce as a question as President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. Listening from left are Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright and David Broomell, Manufacturing Technology Manager at energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova, listen. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n<p>                        <\/bsp-carousel-read-more>                    <\/div>\n<p>    <\/template>    <\/bsp-figure>                <\/div>\n<p>The network&rsquo;s chief White House correspondent was among reporters let into the Oval Office to question the president and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. She asked Trump whether it was appropriate for his family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while he was president.<\/p>\n<p>Before he could answer, she <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-saudi-crown-prince-mbs-505b32527e58d4bd49d5bc917efb4936\">directed a question<\/a><\/span>  to the Saudi leader: &ldquo;Your Royal Highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. 9\/11 families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office. Why should Americans trust you? And the same to you, Mr. President.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After asking Bruce who she worked for, Trump called ABC &ldquo;fake news&rdquo; and defended his family&rsquo;s business operations in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The president dismissed the U.S. intelligence findings that the prince likely had some culpability in the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi kingdom. He said &ldquo;a lot of people didn&rsquo;t like&rdquo; Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and a Virginia resident.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Prince Mohammed said Khashoggi&rsquo;s death was painful and &ldquo;a huge mistake.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div data-align-center>                    <bsp-figure>    <\/p>\n<figure data-openoverlay>                        <a id=\"image-e60000\"><\/a>                             <picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><source width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain on Dec. 15, 2014. (AP Photo\/Hasan Jamali, File)\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/d243f3e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3000x2000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fd8%2Fe9%2Fe34ff1345773f2d4accb2004cdd5%2F16a815f168b14237a757650396abc7a7\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div><bsp-read-more data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption>\n<p>Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain on Dec. 15, 2014. (AP Photo\/Hasan Jamali, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <template data-bsp-figure-overlay-template>                                <\/p>\n<div data-slidenumber=\"0\" data-slidescount=\"1\">                        <bsp-carousel-read-more data-show-less data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-id data-less-id>                            <\/p>\n<p>Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain on Dec. 15, 2014. (AP Photo\/Hasan Jamali, File)<\/p>\n<p>                        <\/bsp-carousel-read-more>                    <\/div>\n<p>    <\/template>    <\/bsp-figure>                <\/div>\n<p>Trump later criticized Bruce for asking the prince a &ldquo;horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question.&rdquo; He laced into her after a third query, about why the White House is waiting for congressional action to release more details about sex offender <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/epstein-files-congress-trump-house-297a66ce48bd2a67c571bc643e32ef71\">Jeffrey Epstein&rsquo;s<\/a><\/span>  correspondence. &ldquo;Why not just do it now?&rdquo; Bruce asked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the question that I mind,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It&rsquo;s the way you ask these questions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After addressing the Epstein question, he returned to Bruce, saying that &ldquo;people are wise to your hoax.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it&rsquo;s so wrong,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And we have a great (FCC) commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that because I think when you come in and you&rsquo;re 97% negative to Trump. And then Trump wins the election in a landslide. That means, obviously, your news is not credible. And you&rsquo;re not credible as a reporter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div data-align-center>                    <bsp-figure>    <\/p>\n<figure data-openoverlay>                        <a id=\"image-d80000\"><\/a>                             <picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><source width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/edb5ded\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fd1%2F44%2Ff55b7ae861c5e0d157989f1db23e%2F5965c0812d3a4c3ab2f7160b1eee160a\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div><bsp-read-more data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption>\n<p>President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <template data-bsp-figure-overlay-template>                                <\/p>\n<div data-slidenumber=\"0\" data-slidescount=\"1\">                        <bsp-carousel-read-more data-show-less data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-id data-less-id>                            <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n<p>                        <\/bsp-carousel-read-more>                    <\/div>\n<p>    <\/template>    <\/bsp-figure>                <\/div>\n<p>ABC News had no comment Tuesday on Trump&rsquo;s statements, which referred to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who leads the federal agency responsible for licensing local broadcast stations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bloomberg News issued a comment on Trump referring to one of its reporters, Catherine Lucey, as &ldquo;piggy&rdquo; during a question-and-answer session last Friday on Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our White House journalists perform a vital public service, asking questions without fear or favor,&rdquo; Bloomberg News said. &ldquo;We remain focused on reporting issues of public interest fairly and accurately.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>David Bauder writes about the intersection of media and entertainment for the AP. Follow him at <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dbauder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/x.com\/dbauder<\/a><\/span>  and <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/dbauder.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/dbauder.bsky.social<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/media-trump-saudi-arabia-epstein-khashoggi-mbs-6cb0300433689c914250e475c4ae8483\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; President Donald Trump denounced ABC News&rsquo; Mary Bruce as a &ldquo;terrible reporter&rdquo; Tuesday and threatened the network&rsquo;s license to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House. 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