Fox News Host Pushes Back at Trump’s Effusive Praise for China

It’s not often that Donald Trump receives push back from one of his sycophantic interviewers on conservative media. But it happened at least twice during his sit-down with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.

When the former president said he had “unbelievable people” in his administration, Bartiromo told him he made “plenty of personnel mistakes,” citing FBI Director Christopher Wray as one example. But it was Trump fawning all over China that seemed to really catch her off-guard.

“I want China to do great, I do. And I like President Xi a lot. He was a very good friend of mine during my term,” Trump said at one point.

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