Fox News anchor Bret Baier sided with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl in his feud with President Trump.
Karl and Trump have been trading shots since a confrontation during a White House press briefing on Monday. In a Tuesday interview with Dana Perino, Baier came to Karl’s defense.
“The president, you know, pushes back very hard on things that he perceives as an attack. I think, you know, Jon Karl is not a third-rate reporter. He’s been around. He’s the president of the White House’s Press Correspondents Association,” Baier explained.
He continued, “Those give-and-takes are the president in his element, and I think we’re going to see more of that. We’ll see if we see it today. He was a bit salty yesterday, it seemed, to some of those questions at the press briefing.”
During the exchange on Monday evening, Trump told Karl he would “never make it,” adding, “You’re a third-rate reporter, and what you just said is a disgrace.”
On Tuesday morning, Karl responded to the incident, saying, “He can insult me all he wants. I don’t care. What matters is getting to the bottom of what is happening with the federal response and how people should be responding to this crisis.”
