"Jennifer Griffin should be terminated for this type of reporting," the president tweeted on Friday after Fox's national security correspondent supported with her resources
Filling in for Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that weekend, Bret Baier took the chance to accuse President Donald Trump of"cancel civilization" hypocrisy for saying Fox News should fire the reporter who confirmed the explosive story from The Atlantic about his verbal attacks on the U.S. army.
"Jennifer Griffin should be terminated for this type of reporting," the president tweeted on Friday after Fox's national security correspondent supported with her resources which, among other matters, he had explained U.S. service associates as"suckers" and"losers." Trump included,"Never called us for comment. @FoxNews is gone!"
"Have you ever heard the president use any of the speech about veterans, dead or alive, ever being about him?" Baier asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Sunday morning.
Following Mnuchin insisted that the president"supports the army in an unbelievable way," the host pushed back. "The president also says he is against the'cancel civilization,''' Baier said, referring to one of the major topics of Trump's Republican National Convention last month. "But would you think it's right for him to call for the firing of a reporter that has unnamed sources who confirm parts of the story?"
Mnuchin pleaded ignorance, saying,"Bret, I really don't understand anything about that it's not something that I could comment on."
However while Baier and others on Fox have defended their priests , others such as Greg Gutfeld called it a"hoax" and a"scam" after she affirmed it earlier in the afternoon.
Finally, Griffin was forced to defend herself on the air with Neil Cavuto on Saturday. "I feel quite confident with what we have reported in Fox. Not each line of this Atlantic post did I affirm, but I would say that most of the descriptions and the quotes in that Atlantic article, I'd locate people who could confirm, and so I feel very confident in my coverage."
In turn, Cavuto called her "very good reporter" who's"pretty scrupulous when it comes to making sure all the I's are dotted, all the t's are crossed."