Trump Calls For Next Debate to Air on Fox News Not ‘Biased’ ABC After Biden Exits Race

Donald Trump on Sunday once again sought a change of venue on the basis of bias, this time for a debate not a trial, as he called for the second presidential debate of 2024 to be moved from ABC News to Fox News Channel.

Trump took to his Truth Social app several times on Sunday to comment on President Joe Biden withdrawing from the Democratic ticket, and in two of those posts he argued for a change to the network hosting the debate.

Trump complained that ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos are biased against him, suggesting Fox News would not be biased against him — a sentiment that he does not always share with himself.

“My debate with Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the history of the United States, was slated to be broadcast on Fake News ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, sometime in September,” Trump wrote. “Now that Joe has, not surprisingly, has quit the race, I think the Debate, with whomever the Radical Left Democrats choose, should be held on FoxNews, rather than very biased ABC.”

In a subsequent post to Truth, Trump brought up the first debate, which started the cascade of calls for Biden to step aside, and suggested the Republican party should be “reimbursed for fraud” because ” everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President?”

“Just askin’?” he … asked?

In earlier messages on the app Trump also suggested Biden faked Covid so he could get out of the election, and joined a chorus of other GOP voices in saying that Biden is not fit to finish out his term as president, either.

ABC and Fox News did not respond to immediate requests for comment.

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