Trump attacks Jacqui Heinrich over Ro Khanna Fox interview
Donald Trump attacked jacqui heinrich by name on Truth Social on Sunday after Fox aired Ro Khanna on The Sunday Briefing. He said Heinrich failed to push back on Khanna and argued that Fox should not give airtime to people he described as liars.
Trump’s Truth Social post
Trump wrote that FoxNews could be listened to all day long and then be obliterated by hearing “SLEAZEBAGS, like Congressman Ro Khanna, ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing,’ LIE, LIE, LIE, AND LIE AGAIN, without any pushback, or competent rebuttal from an anchor, in this case, Jacqui Heinrich.” He added that Fox should not put “SCUM like this on.”
The post singled out Heinrich after the interview had already aired, making her the named target of his complaint about the segment. Earlier on Sunday, Trump had already said Khanna “should not be allowed” on unless he was interviewed by someone capable of disputing his lies.
The Sunday Briefing exchange
Trump said Khanna tried to take credit for the steel industry pouring back into the U.S., while Trump claimed he saved the industry through strong tariffs. He also wrote that the country was “DEAD” during the last administration and is now “hotter than ever before.”
Heinrich was not named in that earlier post, but Trump returned to the subject an hour-and-a-half later with a direct attack on the co-anchor. That sequence tied his criticism to the interview itself and to the way he said Fox handled it on air.
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The Sunday attack fit a pattern. Trump has been regularly bashing recently, and last week he attacked the channel over a segment on Bill Maher’s interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Real Time.
In the Sunday post, Trump also wrote that “MAGA Republicans, who are actually close to 100% of the Party, hate Fox,” though he added that the network has “wonderful contributions” from some anchors and commentators. He also criticized Bill Maher and Hakeem Jeffries in the same post, broadening the complaint beyond Heinrich and Khanna.
For Fox, the immediate issue is not a policy dispute but whether Trump keeps targeting individual hosts and guests by name when he thinks an interview gives his opponents too much room. For Heinrich, the post puts her directly in the path of that criticism after a single segment became the latest flash point.
