Trump Walks Out on Interview Ambush

This weekend, President Donald Trump’s sit-down with Meet the Press turned into a walk-off as the President abruptly ended his interview with NBC’s White House correspondent Kristen Welker in Wisconsin after she debated the President’s assertions that the California election and the 2020 presidential election were “rigged” and criticized his “anti-weaponization” fund.

As reported by Fox News:

President Donald Trump abruptly ended a tense "Meet the Press" interview with host Kristen Welker in Wisconsin Sunday after she repeatedly challenged his claims about election fraud, California’s vote count and his proposed “anti-weaponization” fund.

Trump cut off the interview after accusing NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN of being “crooked” during a final exchange over his claims about U.S. elections.

“You’re a one-sided crooked network,” Trump told Welker. “Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.”

The exchange escalated during the final block, when Welker pressed Trump on a proposed $1.8 billion fund intended to compensate people who said they were targeted by the former President Joe Biden administration’s alleged “weaponization” of government.

Welker asked Trump whether he was moving away from the fund after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the administration would not move forward with it.

“Just to be very clear, are you backing off the fund completely as your acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said, or are you looking for another avenue to revive the fund?” Welker asked.

Trump defended the proposal and said people had been harmed by officials in the Biden administration.

While critics may say the President should not have ended the interview so abruptly, Welker’s behavior certainly demonstrates the self-importance of these journalists who think they are the moral authority and that their narratives are the power keeping this country together. That somehow, without them, this country will fall away.

In reality, journalists have let their biases creep in. And when they are called out, they melt down and try to distort how things went down. Even former 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley, who was recently fired for bad mouthing his employer, sat down with The New York Times to tout his journalistic bona fides – even to the point of claiming he’s been “in combat for this country.” I’d be curious to hear how actual military combat veterans would react to that.

President Trump is no stranger to Meet the Press, having appeared on the long-running news program multiple times now, including during his first term when he sat down with Chuck Todd. In fact, this weekend was actually Trump’s second interview with Kristen Welker in this current term. Incidentally, President Joe Biden sat with Meet the Press exactly zero times while he was in office.

But what you’re seeing in the headlines is how Trump “storms out” after getting pushback, as though he couldn’t take the hard-hitting journalism of Meet the Press. The media reports are only spotlighting how the appearance ended, and not everything of substance that came before things unraveled, or the clear frustration that led to Trump finally leaving. 

The President gave a full interview – almost 40 minutes. But they’re making it seem like he showed up, gave them five minutes, and then insolently declared it a waste of his time and walked out. Not the case at all.

The truth is President Trump has been extremely accessible to the media, perhaps even much more so than other Presidents. In return, they continually want to paint him as the enemy of the press.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more discussion of the President’s tense exchange on Meet the Press, as well as more analysis of Scott Pelley’s self-aggrandizing interview. We also discussed the current situation in the Middle East, as the President has called upon Israel and Iran to “immediately stop shooting.”

Watch the full broadcast below: