{"id":118078,"date":"2019-03-07T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118078"},"modified":"2019-03-07T07:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T11:06:40","slug":"trump-warns-democrats-fake-news-channels-banned-from-election-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118078","title":{"rendered":"Trump Warns Democrats: &#8220;Fake news&#8221; channels banned from election debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Donald Trump Threatens to Block \u2018Fake News\u2019 from Presidential Debates<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_118079\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-3-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118079\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118079\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-3-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-3-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP\/Getty<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h3>President Donald Trump reacted to the news that the Democrat National Committee decided not to allow Fox News\u00a0to host any of their primary debates.<\/h3>\n<p>by Charlie Spiering<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood,\u201d Trump replied on Twitter. \u201cThen I think I\u2019ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DNC chairman Tom Perez that the Fox News channel\u2019s close relationship with the president meant that they would not allow the cable news network to host any of their debates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"powr_1\" class=\"a8d padok\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"powr_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/player.powr.com\/iframe.html?account=100010177&amp;player=743&amp;domain=breitbart.com&amp;terms=donald%20trump%20debates%20threatens%20block%20fake%20news%20presidential&amp;uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F03%2F06%2Fdonald-trump-threatens-to-block-fake-news-from-presidential-debates%2F&amp;c=1551956279068\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cJust to be clear, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,\u201d Perez said on Twitter. He said that\u00a0Fox News could not host \u201ca fair and neutral debate\u201d for their candidates.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump indicated that he might not participate in general election debates with establishment media figures.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, NBC\u2019s Lester Holt, ABC\u2019s Martha Raddatz, CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper, and Fox News\u2019 Chris Wallace were\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/4018235\/here-is-the-full-list-of-moderators-for-the-2016-presidential-debates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">selected\u00a0<\/a>by the Commission on Presidential Debates to moderate the general election debates with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just to be clear, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Perez (@TomPerez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPerez\/status\/1103380790354870272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats just blocked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> from holding a debate. Good, then I think I\u2019ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1103446552524345346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/06\/donald-trump-threatens-to-block-fake-news-from-presidential-debates\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/06\/donald-trump-threatens-to-block-fake-news-from-presidential-debates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Threatens to Block \u2018Fake News\u2019 from Presidential Debates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}