Donald Trump Jr. sparred with an MSNBC reporter during a heated interview at the Republican National Convention, blasting the liberal network as “clowns” and telling the journalist to “just get out of here.”
Donald Trump’s oldest son got into a tense exchange with reporter Jacob Soboroff on Monday, the first day of the convention in which the former president was formally nominated as the party’s presidential pick.
Trump Jr. first took exception when Soboroff asked him what a second term under Trump, 78, would look like and suggested he was a “divisive figure” in his first term in the Oval Office.
“I don’t think he was a divisive figure at all,” Trump Jr. insisted. “I think the media created divineness around him. They lied about Russia, Russia collusion, they said that he was a traitor, they went after him in every which way possible.
“If the media actually starts being an honest broker, talking about the things that he did, the prosperity he brought, the peace deals that he signed around the world rather than the disaster that we’re living right now I think you’d do everyone in the country a big favor.”
Soboroff then asked Trump Jr. if his father would attempt to separate migrant children from their parents after crossing the border, which led to a testier exchange.
Trump Jr., who was standing next to his brother Eric Trump, sister Tiffany Trump and fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, appeared to link the Obama administration to the same immigration tactic, leading Soboroff to cut in, “You know they didn’t do that, sir.”
When Soboroff asked the same question, Trump Jr. tore into him.
“It’s MSDNC so I expect nothing less from you clowns,” Trump Jr. said. “Even today, even 48 hours later, you couldn’t wait, you couldn’t wait with your lies and with your nonsense.
“So, just get out of here,” Trump Jr. concluded with a wave of his hand.
Trump Jr.’s father — who arrived at the convention a day after surviving an assassination attempt — has made immigration policy a major theme of his campaign following a flood of migrants crossing illegally into the US under President Biden.