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Trump accuses Fox’s John Roberts of ‘working for CNN’

Fox’s John Roberts become the target of Donald Trump at April 1, 2020’s coronavirus briefing at the White House.

Roberts was starting to ask a question about the administration dismantling a key pandemic team that was part of the National Security Council and how that might have affected the government’s coronavirus response.

Trump cut him off by saying: “We didn’t do that. That turned out to be a false story. What are you, working for CNN?”

Trump has repeatedly lashed out at CNN, calling the network “fake news.”

“No no, I’m pointing out what they have said … what you have said, that’s all,” replied Roberts, who previously worked at CNN and CBS News.

“Fox isn’t so easy either; don’t kid yourselves,” was Trump’s retort before admonishing him for repeating a story “you know is false.”

In 2018, Trump’s then national security adviser John Bolton did, in fact, reorganize the NSC — and eliminated the pandemic team as part of those changes.

Trump has also been grilled on his administration’s cuts to the the CDC and WHO — something he has defended by saying he can ramp up response teams in those organizations on an as needed basis.

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