President Trump surprised many when he walked out of the White House for an impromptu interview with one of his favorite Fox News shows.
Trump crashed the set of “Fox & Friends” at the White House where he reacted to the bombshell inspector general’s report, blasting fired FBI chief James Comey and admitting he may have to get involved in forcing the Justice Department to release all remaining documents related to the probe into his campaign.
President @realDonaldTrump on what’s next now that DOJ IG report has been released pic.twitter.com/otZtfjHQ6H
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) June 15, 2018
“I think Comey was the ringleader of this whole den of thieves,” Trump told Fox News host Steve Doocy.
“If you took a poll at the FBI, [I would win],” Trump told Doocy. “I mean the real FBI, not the scum on top.”
Asked by ‘Fox and Friends’ if Comey should be “locked up,” President Trump says he would never want to get “involved in that,” and then adds that he believes Comey committed criminal acts and “what he did was horrible.”
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 15, 2018
The president reacted to texts revealed in the highly anticipated report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, calling them “vicious” attacks on his supporters. The report not only revealed the political bias of FBI agent Peter Strzok in text messages with his lover, lawyer Lisa Page, but text messages by other FBI employees showed an eye-popping display of disdain toward Trump’s supporters, calling them “retarded” and “poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.”
Trump praised his supporters, saying they are “the smartest, they’re the hardest working, they pay taxes. They’re incredible, they’re loyal.”
But the president admitted that, in the wake of the damning IG report, his plan to stay out of the DOJ probe may change.
“I said on the Department of Justice, I would stay uninvolved. Now I may get involved at some point if it gets worse,” he told Doocy, who then asked him about Republican lawmakers who are pushing for a vote on a resolution forcing the DOJ to stop stonewalling and finally release all remaining documents.
Trump repeated that he had try to stay uninvolved in the process but feels he “may not stay unnvolved because they have to get the documents.”
While the president’s visit with the “Fox & Friends” set seemed unplanned, it was not a complete surprise to the press. Trump hinted he might do so in earlier while livetweeting segments from the show.
Wow, the highest rated (by far) morning show, @foxandfriends, is on the Front Lawn of the White House. Maybe I’ll have to take an unannounced trip down to see them?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
Reporters converged upon him, peppering him with questions as soon as they saw the president emerge.
JUST IN: After tweeting that he might do so, President Trump has made an impromptu walk out of the White House to conduct a live interview with Fox News. pic.twitter.com/Y1l4JJ6ELo
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 15, 2018
JUST IN: President Trump blames Democrats when asked by @kwelkernbc if his administration’s policy to separate children from their parents at the US-Mexico border is inhumane. pic.twitter.com/WvvY84HwJv
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 15, 2018
Reporter: Are you worried that Michael Cohen might flip?
President Trump: “Look, I did nothing wrong.”
Reporter: Is he still your lawyer?
Trump: “No, he’s not my lawyer, anymore.”
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 15, 2018
“You are about to see something on the Fox News that has never happened, that we believe, in the history of White House reporting,” Doocy announced as Trump made his way to the “Fox & Friends” cameras. “And that is the president of the United States is just outside the press room and it looks like he is in route to our location.”
Donald Trump walking down the White House lawn so he can make a surprise live appearance on his favorite TV show is just completely bonkers pic.twitter.com/3VzN44TlKQ
— Amber Jamieson (@ambiej) June 15, 2018
Trump just walked out of the White House, down the driveway and to the Fox camera, where he is appearing live on Fox and Friends from the North Lawn.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 15, 2018
The president even took a shot at his favorite “fake news” network CNN.
President @realDonaldTrump: “You’ve gotta watch @CNN, what a fraud it is.”@SteveDoocy: “They’re listening, they’re right behind you.”@POTUS: “That’s fine.” pic.twitter.com/jGvjFhRRyZ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 15, 2018
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.
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