‘Morning Joe’ Shreds ‘Absolute Jokes’ Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Over Trump Town Hall

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough tore into Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Thursday over their “softball” town hall event with Donald Trump, calling the Fox News anchors “absolute jokes” for “fawning” over the ex-president.

In a transparent counterprogramming move, Trump—who has skipped the GOP debates—held a live Iowa town hall on Fox News at the same time CNN aired its Republican presidential debate between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, Trump’s top rivals for the GOP nomination.

The Wednesday night forum also broke Fox’s effective ban on live interviews with Trump, which had been in place since April 2022 amid his bitter feud with the network and Fox’s legal issues over parroting his election lies—which eventually cost Fox $787 million.

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