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4:45Now PlayingDuring the second Republican debate last week, President Biden's campaign ran ads attacking Donald Trump and touting the improvements that Biden has brought to America. Trump was furious, and he's now begging Fox News to stop airing these ads from his political opponent. He's also demanding that they stop doing the debates, but it was the ads from Biden that really got under his skin because millions of people were watching. Farron Cousins explains what happened.
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folks, Donald Trump is very sad, not just sad about, you know, losing his business licenses in New York. He's not just sad about all the other legal problems. He's, he's sad because Fox News has been hurting his little feelings recently. I mean, as I talked over the weekend, you know, Donald Trump was sad that Fox News is actually being nice to other Republican candidates. But he's also super sad that during the recent Republican debate last Wednesday evening, Fox News actually ran negative ads from the Biden campaign against Donald Trump. How dare they like that? That's mean. Don't you know that Fox News? Here's what Trump put on truth, social. The second Republican primary debate on Fox News had the lowest viewership since 2016. Their overall ratings are down 30%. Fox needs maga, they just don't know it yet. Stop with the bad debates and negative ads no more.
Get your act together before it's too late. D J T I I, I really, I like the part where you signed your own post on social media. I mean, it, it was coming from your account, but you signed it anyway, just so everybody knew. Like, just so there's no question. It's from D j t. Um, no more negative ads. No more. He says, because they hurt his feelings, because President Biden's campaign did a very smart thing. They knew that you were gonna have millions of people watching this debate on Fox News. They know they got lots of money. So like, you know what? Let's put an ad out. Let I, I think they actually did two ads and they did one in Spanish because of course, the, uh, debate was also broadcast on Univision. So they did, they did a smart thing, right? Like, we know we've got a captive audience.
We know these are people who are maybe on the fence about who they're gonna vote for. Let's see if we can get any of 'em into our camp. And Fox News. Of course, even though they are the, like, highly partisan, they were like, eh, money's money, right, we don't agree with you. We don't even like you. We're gonna continue to push for your impeachment, but if you wanna give us money to run an ad, hell yeah, we'll take your money. We'll run that ad. And that's what makes Donald Trump mad. He, he thinks that if you're a conservative outlet, then buy God. You shouldn't be taking money from those gosh darn woke liberals in Washington, dc. But Fox News is a business. Fox News actually has fiduciary duty to do what's best for their shareholders. And what's best for their shareholders is to make sure that the network makes as much money as possible. Not push a political agenda that gets as many Republicans elected as possible,
But make as much money for the shareholders of the network as possible. That is literally legally called fiduciary duty. And that's what they have to do. So, Donald, you can beg and whine and cry all you want. They're not gonna stop. And yeah, the ratings for the second debate were well below what they were for the first debate. Uh, I, I think more than 3 million viewers tuned in, uh, more than 3 million more tuned into the first debate than the second debate. Uh, but it still got millions of viewers may not have been obviously the highest debate in the history of politics, but it pulled in a hell of a lot of ad dollars for Fox News. So no, they're not gonna stop doing it. They're not gonna stop running Biden's ads. They don't care that you got your feelings hurt because again, he is not just calling by the way, for, for them to stop running the Biden ads.
He's calling for all the debates, like, don't run anymore of these debates. Why? Uh, because a lot of the people up on that stage, even ones who hadn't done it in the previous debate, decided to take some shots at him to call him out for his horrific record. So the debate hurt his feelings. The commercial breaks were hurting his feelings. I mean, my God, Donald Trump was just sad throughout the whole thing, start to finish. And Fox News won't do a thing about it. 'cause even if they love Republicans, the one thing they love more is money.
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