Donald Trump: Fox News “Wasted Airtime” With Pete Buttigieg Town Hall

After Fox News scheduled to have South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday night, President Donald Trump criticized the network, saying it was “wasting airtime.”

Buttigieg is among two dozen people competing for the Democratic Party’s 2020 nomination to challenge Trump.

Hard to believe that @FoxNews is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, as Chris Wallace likes to call him. Fox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems. They got dumped from the Democrats boring debates, and they just want in. They forgot the people…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 19, 2019

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….who got them there. Chris Wallace said, “I actually think, whether you like his opinions or not, that Mayor Pete has a lot of substance…fascinating biography.” Gee, he never speaks well of me – I like Mike Wallace better…and Alfred E. Newman will never be President!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 19, 2019

Chris Wallace, the Fox News anchor, has previously praised the mayor for having “interesting, refreshing ideas.”

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The Democratic National Committee announced in March that it would not allow any presidential primary debates in this cycle to be hosted by Fox News, fearing the deep ties between the conservative network and Trump’s White House.

Fox News Senior Vice President and Managing Editor Bill Sammon responded by citing that Wallace along with fellow anchors Martha MacCallum and Brat Baier are “the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters.”