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Trump Is Furious With Chris Wallace Because Wallace Dared to Tell the Truth, ‘People Could Have Been Saved’

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In case you had not heard, Trump is furious with Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday.

Why?

Why is Trump ever mad at the media? Wallace asked some questions of a guest who then gave his expert opinion, one that is pretty-well the consensus of all experts. And that’s just not allowed, because Fox is supposed to be State Television:

That didn’t go over well:

Which then itself makes national news, because people agree it is not healthy to have a president who cannot take any criticism – even if we all can admit to being a little “late” on this, and even if most adults would find it healthy (in Trump’s position) to say “I regret that I didn’t act more aggressively, to begin with, my choice now is to do all I can going forward.” It isn’t hard.

But Chris Wallace had a brilliant response, from the article in The Hill:

“To which my reaction is always: One of us has a daddy problem, and it’s not me,” Wallace quipped in response when asked about Trump’s tweets during a panel discussion.

That happens to be true, one of the very few “true” things a person will hear on Fox. Trump has a lot of daddy problems, and a daughter problem, for that matter.

It’s not like Fox and Chris Wallace aren’t used to this by now, it’s been an on-again/off-again relationship between Trump and Fox. The bottom line is they are so co-dependent it makes me look like Barack Obama.

The president has attacked the network numerous times over the past year, in February tweeting in response to the network after a guest compared former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s debate performances in the Democratic primary to those of Trump himself.

In August, the president complained that the network was “only getting worse” in a tweet specifically targeting “Media Buzz,” which is hosted by Howard Kurtz.

Unlike Trump’s relationship with his wives, this one is for life, till death do they part. Trump needs Fox’s viewers and people like Hannity and Ingraham, while Fox also needs Trump’s voters for ad dollars.

Unfortunately, if there is to be an odd man out in this situation, it would be Chris Wallace. Though – I have to say, he holds quite a bit of power in this relationship, too. Fox would be humiliated if they fired him, it would be an obvious bow to Trump that even they would have a hard time withstanding. The line between them and OAN would disappear, and it would cost some ad dollars. Meanwhile, Wallace would be seen as a hero to many (not me, necessarily), the one guy who wouldn’t compromise his principals to buckle in to pressure.

I am well aware that Chris Wallace is a smarmy, smug, conservative troll in his own right. But he’s not Sean Hannity, either. We get in trouble when we lump ALL Right-wingers as being equally bad. It will take as many Americans on the “dump Trump” truck as we can fit, to get it done. That means holding our nose sometimes.

Thus, as I hold my nose, I say: “Nice job, Chris. You earned some respect today and nice comeback.”

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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