SINCE TRUMP THINKS FOX IS NOW LIKE MSNBC AND CNN, HE MAY HAVE TO BUY HIS OWN MEDIA ORGANIZATION TO GET A FRIENDLY NEWS OUTLET

Donald Trump lays into his once-favorite Fox News for 'trying sooo hard to be politically correct' by interviewing 'sleazebag James Comey and corrupt Adam Schiff'

By Katelyn Caralle

Daily Mail
December 15, 2019

Donald Trump lambasted his favorite news network on Twitter Saturday, claiming Fox News is trying to be more like its 'dying' competitors MSNBC and CNN.

The criticism came after Fox News Sunday announced on its Twitter page Saturday afternoon that it would be conducting interviews with former FBI Director James Comey and Democrat Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.

'Hard to believe that @FoxNews will be interviewing sleazebag & totally discredited former FBI Director James Comey, & also corrupt politician Adam 'Shifty' Schiff,' Trump posted Saturday evening. 'Fox is trying sooo hard to be politically correct, and yet they were totally shut out from the failed Dem debates!'

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez announced last year that Fox News would not be permitted to host any of the Democrat primary debates because he said he only wanted 'neutral' networks and news outlets to host the events.

Fox News, the only major television network that leans right, is one of the president's favored media sources, but he says the outlet is on a bad track.

'Both Commiecast MSNBC & Fake News CNN are watching their Ratings TANK. Fredo on CNN is dying. Don't know why @FoxNews wants to be more like them?' Trump said in another tweet Saturday evening.

'They'll all die together as other outlets take their place. Only pro Trump Fox shows do well. Rest are nothing. How's Shep doing?' he continued, referencing the former Fox News anchor who abruptly resigned in October, Shepard Smith.

Smith was with Fox News for 23 years, since its first broadcast in 1996, but had quickly emerged in the last few years as the black sheep of the network with his anti-Trump perspective.

Last week Fox News announced Smith would be replaced by Fox News host Bill Hemmer in the 3:00 p.m. time slot for the new show, 'Bill Hemmer Reports.'

Chris Wallace, who hosts Fox News Sunday, is on of Fox News' only remaining Democrat-leaning anchors.

On Sunday morning, Wallace interviewed Comey and Schiff amidst the ongoing impeachment inquiry into Trump, which will move forward after the House Judiciary Committee voted last week to approve two articles of impeachment against the president.

Trump calls American media 'fake news,' and often attacks specific networks at his rallies and while taking journalists questions at the White House – especially those he feels covers him unfairly.

He specifically and repeatedly expresses his ire for CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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'I was wrong': Former FBI director James Comey admits he was 'overconfident' when he defended agency's use of surveillance on a Trump aide and describes failures as 'real sloppiness'

Daily Mail
December 15, 2019

Former FBI Director James Comey acknowledged Sunday that a Justice Department inspector general report identified 'real sloppiness' in the surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide and said he was wrong to have been 'overconfident' about how the Russia investigation was handled.

Comey said in an interview on Fox News Sunday that he was wrong when he told an interviewer last year that the applications to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court were handled in a 'thoughtful, responsible way'.

'I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI and Justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. It's incredibly hard to get a FISA. I was overconfident in those,' Comey said Sunday.

The report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that the FBI opened the Russia investigation for a legitimate reason and was not motivated by partisan bias when it did so. But Horowitz also found major errors and omissions in applications the FBI submitted to eavesdrop on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

'Because he's right,' Comey added, referring to Horowitz. 'There was real sloppiness, 17 things that either should've been in the applications or at least discussed and characterized differently. It was not acceptable and so he's right. I was wrong.'

EDITOR’S NOTE: That was only a half-ass confession. Now if Comey would only come completely clean, he would also have to admit he was about the worst FBI director ever.