Mainstream media have reported Trump is angry due to his candidate losing.
QUICK FACTS:
- Former President Donald Trump is pushing back against mainstream reporting that he is angry with his wife, Melania Trump, and Fox News host Sean Hannity.
- Stories have circulated that Trump is frustrated because they encouraged him to endorse Pennsylvania candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz for a Senate seat and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano.
- Outlets cited “sources” who said Trump was angry with Melania and Hannity, as well as aides for misguiding him on endorsements.
- ABC News also went on to point out that 14 of Trump’s handpicked candidates are projected to have lost their election bids, citing a “top Trump adviser” who reportedly said, “This is a sinking ship. We’re not going to beat that.”
- Trump pushed back against the story on Truth Social, saying it was a “fake story” and even called out a New York Times journalist, Maggie Hagaman, as the source of the story, calling her a “third rate reporter.”
WHAT TRUMP SAID:
- Trump told the Pennsylvania crowd at a rally Saturday before the election, “We have tens of thousands of people here. If these people vote for you, Doug, and if they vote for you, Oz, you can’t lose. We can’t lose.”
- In response to the stories about his frustrations, Trump said, “There is a Fake Story being promulgated by third rate reporter Maggie Hagaman of the Failing New York Times, that I am blaming our great former First Lady, Melania, and Sean Hannity, that I was angry with their pushing me to Endorse Dr. Oz.”
- “First of all Oz is a wonderful guy who really worked hard and was a very good candidate, but he WAS LONG IN THE RACE before I ever Endorsed him, they had NOTHING to do with it, he was not a ‘denier’ (his mistake!), & I was not at all ANGRY. Fake News!” the former president went on to say.
BACKGROUND:
- Trump is expected to make a “very big announcement, on November 15. The former president said he would make a “major” announcement at a rally in Dayton, Ohio Monday night, as American Faith previously reported.
- “Two years ago we were a great nation, and we will be a great nation again. Not to detract from tomorrow’s very important, even critical election… I’m going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, Nov 15 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach,” Trump said during his speech.
