{"id":2678913,"date":"2026-10-08T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-president-issues-defiant-response-to-trumps-criticism-its-what-we-do\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:43:17","slug":"fox-news-president-issues-defiant-response-to-trumps-criticism-its-what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-president-issues-defiant-response-to-trumps-criticism-its-what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News President Issues Defiant Response to Trump&#8217;s Criticism: &#8216;It&#8217;s What We Do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffox-news-president-issues-defiant-response-to-trumps-criticism-its-what-we-do%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2678913&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Fox News Media President Jay Wallace&#8217;s response to President Donald trump&#8217;s criticism of the network&#8217;s interview content. Wallace defends the network&#8217;s journalistic choices, noting that airing diverse programming is part of their role, even if it displeases some viewers or politicians. Specifically, he cites a recent interview conducted by Fox host Martha MacCallum with Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, which Trump criticized as too soft and biased against Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>Wallace views such interviews as examples of Fox providing varied perspectives that may differ from the expectations of its core audience. The controversy prompted complaints from the White House and Republican operatives, who expressed concern that favorable coverage of El-sayed could help him appear more moderate. Notably, El-Sayed\u2019s campaign benefited from frequent advertising on Fox News, and polls suggest he is slightly leading in the race, which would make him the first Muslim senator if elected.<\/p>\n<p>the article highlights tensions between Fox News\u2019 editorial decisions and political expectations, especially during an election cycle, with prominent figures voicing concerns over perceived bias and coverage biases toward Democratic candidates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fox News Media president Jay Wallace answered President Donald Trump\u2019s complaint about the network\u2019s interview of a controversial Democrat candidate with a short defense of the booking:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone didn\u2019t necessarily like that,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that\u2019s what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace made the remark in a Tuesday report in the Beltway news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/06\/fox-news-ratings-margin-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>.\u00a0He was talking about Fox host Martha MacCallum\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6406325937112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday sit-down<\/a> with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace called the interview an example of the network airing programming different from what its core audience expects, Axios reported.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had already put the objection in public. On  on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-calls-fox-news-anchor-name-continues-war-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he called<\/a> the MacCallum interview \u201csoftball\u201d and wrote that she never interviewed him that way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA. They have totally lost their way!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FoxNews spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates than they do the good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America, and are making it great again. All they talk about is Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed, with his softball interview by Martha MacCallum, and the like. She never interviews me like that. They don\u2019t show my record breaking Rallies the morning after, but others do, and that\u2019s what MAGA is watching. Fox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA. They have totally lost their way! President DJT<\/p>\n<p>( TS: Oct 6 2026, 9:50 AM ET )\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200b\u200b\u200c\u200b\u200b\u200c\u200c\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200c\u200c\u200b\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200b\u200c\u200c\u200d\u200b\u200c\u200b\u200d\u200d\u200b\u200b\u200d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Commentary Donald J. Trump  Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpTruthOnX\/status\/2107997844573761861?\">October 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>White House officials had already called Fox that day to complain about the MacCallum segment, Axios reported.<\/p>\n<p>These aren\u2019t the first complaints about Fox. Senior Republican operatives contacted Fox producers and executives in early August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/08\/trump-fox-news-tension-el-sayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios reported<\/a>, warning that favorable comments from Jesse Watters could help El-Sayed look moderate.<\/p>\n<p>After El-Sayed beat an establishment-backed Democrat in the primary, according to liberal website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/frantic-trump-aides-secret-calls-to-fox-news-over-dem-star-abdul-el-sayed-exposed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Beast<\/a>, Watters said, \u201cYou gotta respect Abdul because he beat the machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed put that line in a television ad and called Watters an \u201cunlikely validator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans were less worried after an Aug. 24 Watters interview that pressed El-Sayed on ICE, Medicare for All, and Sharia law, Axios noted. But they might have been unsettled the next day when Watters said, \u201cI actually like Abdul. I probably shouldn\u2019t like him, but I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox said that August interview drew nearly 3.4 million viewers, the highest-rated cable-news primetime telecast of the month.<\/p>\n<p>A Fox representative told Axios that Michigan GOP Senate nominee Rep. Mike Rogers was invited on Watters\u2019 show and did not respond.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump: \u201cEl-Sayed was interviewed just a little while ago on a certain network, I won\u2019t tell you which one. They let this guy talk, talk, talk. They hardly fight him at all. Why are they putting these people on our television networks?\u2026They should stop doing it.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/yXsWdgLkS1<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bulwark Clips (@BulwarkClips) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BulwarkClips\/status\/2107257857242517671?\">October 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  From Oct. 1 to Oct. 6, El-Sayed\u2019s ads ran 129 times on Fox News, about twice as often as on ESPN, ad-tracking data cited by Axios showed. Michigan GOP strategist Dennis Lennox told Axios that El-Sayed was \u201con Fox every commercial break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polls have the race close, but El-Sayed ahead by 3.2 points, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/senate\/general\/2026\/michigan\/rogers-vs-el-sayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolling average<\/a>. El-Sayed, a critic of Israel\u2019s government, would be the first Muslim elected to the Senate if he wins.<\/p>\n<p>On MacCallum\u2019s show, he said, \u201cI am going to have conversations with all kinds of folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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