Baier Denies Charges He Colluded With DOJ Against Trump
Under criticism for allegations that he communicated with the Department of Justice (DOJ) before interviewing former President Donald Trump, Fox News anchor Bret Baier is denying that there was any collusion.
The highly-publicized face-to-face interview between Bair and the former president drew millions of viewers to the troubled network, but it also drew condemnation.
The interview at times became confrontational, with Baier at one point telling the former president that “you lost the 2020 election.”
Critics believe that Baier, by essentially reading from the recent indictment, cross-examined the former president. Special Counsel Jack Smith may well use Trump’s words taken from the Fox News interview against him, and that’s without having to ask the questions himself.
Baier responded to criticism that he did the work of the Department of Justice for them. One accusation asked if the host had contact with the DOJ to attempt to trap Trump into incriminating himself.
Baier replied online, “I’ll answer that. No. I wrote my own questions. And frankly I didn’t know that I would get much on the indictment questions assuming he might say he couldn’t talk about it.”
