This guy has no more “friends” left.
January 28, 2019 - 08:51 AM EST
[SIZE=7]Fox News anchor defends colleagues after Trump criticism: ‘This is NOT right’[/SIZE]
BY AVERY ANAPOL
Fox News Channel anchor Julie Banderas on Monday fired back at President Trump after he tore into a pair of Fox News reporters over their coverage of the government shutdown.
“This is NOT right,” Banderas tweeted. “I stand by my colleagues [John Roberts] and [Gillian Turner]. They don’t deserve this. No reporter does.”
“They are doing their jobs and reporting the facts,” she continued. “They are not opinion journalists and deserve the respect from the [White House] they cover.”
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The tweet came in response to a Sunday tweet from Trump that said Roberts and Turner “have even less understanding of the Wall negotiations than the folks at FAKE NEWS CNN & NBC!”
The president’s tweet targeted Roberts and Turner for their coverage of the border wall negotiations and came after Trump agreed on Friday to reopen the government after a 35-day partial shutdown. The funding lapse was triggered by Trump’s demands for more than $5 billion in border wall funding.
In the same tweet, Trump also pointed to a pollshowing a 19 percent increase in support for him among Latino adults from December to January.
Trump regularly criticizes CNN, the New York Times and other outlets over coverage of his administration that he deems negative, referring to the reports as “fake news.”
But the jab at Fox News was rare for the president, who has appeared on the network for several interviews and often praises the network’s hosts and ratings.