Trump says he regrets not 'going after' ABC moderators during debate: 'I wish I did'
Former President Trump expressed regret for not going after ABC News anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis during last week's presidential debate.
"I think my only regret is that I wanted to be elegant, and I didn't want to go after the anchors. I wish I did, in a way," Trump said during an appearance Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "Gutfeld!"
"I was very unfairly treated by the anchor. I'm not fans of those guys anymore – and his hair was better five years ago," Trump quipped, referring to Muir, adding, "That happens with the clock."
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Critics railed against Muir and Davis for repeatedly fact-checking Trump during the debate while going easy on Vice President Kamala Harris.
"They didn't correct her once, and they corrected me- everything I said, practically," Trump said.
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The former president knocked the "fake news" for its fawning praise of Harris' debate performance, accusing her of producing a "word salad" during her first response after she was asked whether Americans are better off financially now than four years ago.
"If I were Winston Churchill- he was a great debater, by the way, and an elegant debater. If I were Winston Churchill, they would say, 'Well, he was okay, but he wasn't special tonight,'" Trump said.
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Trump also addressed Sunday's assassination attempt against him, joking to Fox News' Greg Gutfeld, "I always said golf is a very dangerous game."
"The Secret Service did a great job," Trump later said. "They saw the barrel of a gun. A big gun. And it came out through bushes. How many people would see that?"
Trump also praised the woman who spotted would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh fleeing from the scene and took photos of his license plate, calling her a "heroine."