President Trump tore into CNN and ABC reporters while departing the White House en route to Clemson, South Carolina, on Wednesday, calling them “dummy” and “stupid” before trashing the outlets.
Trump smoked both reporters as they tried to frame his Russian prisoner release, for which Trump said the US gave nothing in return, as an exchange.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Trump announced the release of Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired American English teacher and U.S. military veteran from Michigan.
“Stephen Hubbard, taken four years ago by Russia during the Biden Administration, was just released from prison, at the request of President Donald J. Trump, made directly to President Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation last week,” Trump wrote.
Trump further said the United States “was not required to give anything in return” in what he called “an unprecedented situation for Russia.”
Trump also highlighted his temporary waiver of sanctions on Russian diesel exports in a Truth Social post this morning, writing, “Numerous people, who requested that sanctions be immediately imposed on Russia, have called to apologize to President Trump in that they didn’t know that he was negotiating the release of Stephen Hubbard, a truly big and important deal for the U.S.”
He continued, “If sanctions would have been placed, certainly those negotiations would have come to a complete and total halt.”
Trump then slammed his critics while speaking to reporters about Hubbard release at the White House earlier. We have a gentleman coming home from Russia that they’ve been after for years. He was captured or taken during the Biden administration. Wouldn’t have happened if I were president, but he was taken,” Trump said. “And we were in the midst of negotiating, and a lot of stupid people said, and people that don’t know how life works, they said, why aren’t you putting Russia sanctions or all this in the midst of a negotiation to try and get a long-term hostage back from Russia?
When interrupted by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who asked whether Trump gave anything to Russia for Hubbard’s release. “So, you did give something in exchange,” Collins said, and Trump went off.
“You don’t know anything. I mean, you fake news CNN,” he said, emphasizing that “if you would have put those sanctions on or whatever you want to call them, you could forget about him. You’d never see him again. He’d be back in jail for 25 years.”
Trump further added that negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine are “very delicate,” but “we are maybe close to a deal for the first time in a long time.”
When Collins interrupted again, attempting to press him further on whether the waiver of sanctions is an “exchange for Hubbard’s release,” Trump fired back, “You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a dummy. You’re a low IQ person. You’re a dummy, and you work for CNN.”
“Let me tell you, if I’m negotiating to get a man back, a man that we wanted back for years, a man that was a prisoner in Siberia or some place in Russia, and we’re getting him back because of me — it should have never happened, but he should have been brought back during Biden because he was there during the Biden,” Trump continued. “The negotiation would obviously come immediately to an end” if he reimposed sanctions on Russia.
Trump then received the exact same question from an ABC’s Karen Travers, and he said, “Are you a stupid person? Who do you work for?”
After she responded ABC, Trump said, “You’re a stupid person, and by the way, your network is the worst of all.”
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Trump similarly went off on reporters during an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person?” he asked the Independent’s Andrew Feinberg during a hilarious exchange.
“I actually think there’s something wrong with you,” Trump added.
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