Former President Trump labeled Fox News’s Shannon Bream as “naive” Wednesday, after she pushed back on his attorney’s assertion that his criminal hush money trial was in some way directed by the White House.
Bream said in an interview with Trump attorney and spokesperson Alina Habba that President Biden is “not responsible” for the trial, pushing back on her false claims that the case is politically organized from the top.
“I never knew Shannon Bream was so ‘naive,’” Trump said in a Truth Social post Wednesday, calling the idea that Biden isn’t involved in the case “stupid.”
“Not only is he involved, he is virtually leading it, and all of the other Trials as well — Meaning, his people, because he’s not mentally sharp enough to lead anything!” he continued. “Just take a look at the DOJ/White House Thugs involved, and everything else.”
The former president added, “Biden is incompetent, and feels that Weaponization is the only way he can win. He’s counting on the Shannon Breams of the World to get him there. Bad day for Shannon!”
Bream noted in the interview with Habba that the former president’s criminal hush money case is led by New York prosecutors, not federal prosecutors, meaning even if there was political influence on the case, it would not come from Biden.
“It’s a state trial,” Bream explained. “It’s [Democratic Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg. Whether you think there’s a political motive for him, it’s not connected to the DOJ. … I mean, the feds passed on these election charges.”
Federal prosecutors previously passed on charging Trump over the allegations that he illegally covered up hush money payments made in the weeks before the 2016 election to hide an alleged past affair, which he has denied.
The former president has pleaded not guilty in the case, in which he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, and his political allies have repeatedly said that the charges against him are political and meant to keep him from winning a second term in the White House this fall.
A jury in New York began deliberating a verdict in the case Wednesday morning.
Trump also faces two criminal cases — one federal, one state — over his efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, as well as a federal case over his retention of classified White House records, and refusal to return them, after the end of his term.