Fox’s Peter Doocy Straight-Up Asks Trump If He Wants Ex-Intel, FBI Chiefs Jailed
Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy straight-up asked President Donald Trump if former FBI Director James Comey and ex-CIA Director John Brennan should be jailed as a result of a criminal investigation.
A pair of Justice Department sources told Fox News this week that Brennan and Comey are under “criminal investigation,” but furnished limited details.
Doocy was in the press pool at a Wednesday White House photo op with the leaders of several African nations, during which the president took questions from reporters.
The president departed from the norms around commenting on ongoing cases by telling Doocy he’d like to see them “pay a price”:
FOX NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT PETER DOOCY: Thank you, President Trump.
James Comey and John Brennan now under criminal investigation related to the Trump Russia probe. Do you want to see these two guys behind bars?
TRUMP: Well, I know nothing about it other than what I read today, but I will tell you, I think they’re very dishonest people. I think they’re crooked as hell and maybe they have to pay a price for that. I believe they are truly bad people and dishonest people. So whatever happens happens.
Doocy went on to ask several more questions, including one about sunbathing:
PETER DOOCY: And now, a few weeks after the strikes that you ordered on the nuclear facilities in Iran, there is an Iranian official who says, you, President Trump, have done something that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago. As you lie there with your stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit you in the navel, it’s very simple. Do you think that’s a real threat? And when is the last time you went sunbathing anyway?
TRUMP: It’s been a long time. It’s been a long time.
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TRUMP: I don’t know, maybe I was around seven or so. I’m not too big into it. Yeah, I guess, it’s a threat. I’m not sure it’s a threat actually, but it — perhaps it is.
PETER DOOCY: And on one another subject, two Democratic Senators now, Cory Booker and Alex Padilla have a new bill out. They want to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible ID — two Democratic Senators now, Cory Booker and Alex Padilla have a new bill out. They want to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs, and they don’t want CBP or ICE officers covering their faces. Would you ever sign that?
TRUMP: Well, they wouldn’t be saying that if they didn’t hate our country. And they obviously do. I’m surprised that they would do it. Knowing a little bit about them, I don’t know them well. But, these officers are doing a tremendous job. They’re great patriots. If you expose them because of statements like — have been made by Democrats and others on the left, usually, mostly, I think probably exclusively. You put them in great danger, tremendous danger. And it’s sort of funny when people pick it in front of Columbia, in front of Harvard and they have masks on — more than masks, I mean, you can’t see anything, nobody complains about that.
But when a patriot who works for ICE or Border Patrol puts a mask on so that they won’t recognize him and his family, so they can lead a little bit of a normal life after having worked so hard and so dangerously, there’s a problem with that. So they have their — this is why — this is the problem with the Democrats. They have — they have a lot of bad things going on in their heads. They’re — they’ve really become very — they’ve lost their confidence, number one, and they’re really — they’ve become somewhat deranged. I want to do whatever’s necessary to protect our great law enforcement people, and they are right at the top of the list.
PETER DOOCY: And your Agriculture Department also announced this week that they’re going to start limiting Chinese ownership of American farmland. Why do you think that the Chinese have been buying up all this farmland in our country, so close to military installations?
TRUMP: Well, I don’t want to get into that. I have a very good relationship with President Xi. We’re going to see, and I’m going to — they’re going to be making a recommendation to me. But we have a very good relationship, as you know we — they’re paying a lot of tariffs to the United States now. And so, I’m not going to get into that right now.
Watch above via The White House.
