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Trump Opens Fire on Fox News For 'Crazy Bernie' Town Hall: Bret Baier Was...
• https://www.mediaite.com, By Joe DePaoloPresident Donald Trump tore into Fox News on Tuesday for its town hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
In a morning tweet, the president weighed in on the hourlong town hall with Sanders, which aired on Monday night — even taking aim at Fox News anchor Bret Baier, one of the event's moderators.
"So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on @FoxNews," Trump wrote. "Not surprisingly, @BretBaier and the 'audience' was so smiley and nice."
Trump also took a swipe at the network for hiring Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile as a contributor.
"Very strange, and now we have @donnabrazile?" He wrote.
Fox News assembled a diverse audience for the Sanders town hall. According to Baier, it included "a lot of Democrats," as well as Republicans, independents, democratic socialists and conservatives. That resulted in a number of Sanders proposals — like Medicare for all — receiving uproarious applause from the audience. Certain questions, like Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum's probing of the proposal to allow felons to vote, were booed by the audience.