Trump slams Fox News for airing Harris border visit

Former President Trump slammed Fox News in front of a crowd of supporters at a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday, ripping the news outlet for airing Vice President Harris’s remarks after visiting part of the southern border in Arizona on Friday.

“I have to sit there and listen to her bulls— last night. And who puts it on? Fox News, and they shouldn’t be allowed to put it on,” Trump said, adding that everything Harris said “is a lie.”

Harris said that she would secure the border and stop illegal drugs from crossing into the U.S. in her remarks on Friday.

Trump has tried to keep the border a top issue for voters as Election Day nears, consistently hitting the Biden-Harris administration on their immigration policies. Polling also shows that immigration, alongside the economy, are top issues for voters.

Since Harris entered the race in July, Republicans have dubbed her President Biden’s “border czar,” a word some media outlets used after the president asked her to “lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle” and help with “stemming the migration to our southern border” in 2021.

The Trump campaign’s first ad against Harris, after she claimed the top spot on the Democratic ticket in July, bashed her for her role in addressing migration at the U.S. border. 

Harris, however, has touted her record on immigration policy, arguing in a recent ad that she’s tougher than Trump on the issue.

Earlier this week, Trump criticized Harris for the planned trip to Arizona, saying she was only visiting the border for “political reasons.” 

“After almost four years, Border Czar Kamala Harris has decided, for political reasons, that it’s time for her to go to our broken Southern Border,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “What a disgrace that she waited so long, allowing millions of people to enter our Country from prisons, mental institutions, and criminal cells all over the World, not just South America, many of those coming are terrorists, and at a level never seen before!”

At the end of 2023, migrant encounters on the border hit a record high, but border patrol apprehensions this past summer were down by almost half compared to the previous year, as the Biden administration imposed stricter immigration measures. July border encounters were at the lowest in the last four years.

The Hill has contacted Fox News for comment.