Donald Trump bashed Fox News, his on-again-off-again favorite news network, on social media Wednesday, proclaiming that “nobody can ever trust” its reporting.
Trump’s screed appeared to be in response to former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan’s appearance on the network over a week ago, when he said Trump was unfit for office.
“Nobody can ever trust Fox News, and I am one of them, with the weak and ineffective RINO, Paul Ryan, on its Board of Directors,” the presumed GOP nominee for president wrote, using the acronym for “Republican in name only.”
“He’s a total lightweight, a failed and pathetic Speaker of the House, and a very disloyal person,” the former president continued.
A representative for Fox News didn’t immediately return a request for comment on the former president’s remarks.
Ryan’s criticism during his June 11 appearance focused on Trump’s character.
“If you put yourself above the Constitution, as he has done, I think that makes you unfit …