President Donald Trump went on the offensive when ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl asked him about a crackdown on so-called “hate speech.”
“You have a lot of hate in your heart,” was part of the president’s response when Karl asked him about Attorney General Pam Bondi going to go after hate speech following the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk last week, Mediaite reported.
The exchange occurred Tuesday morning before Trump boarded Marine One on his way to to depart for London, England.
“And what do you make Pam Bondi saying she’s going to go after hate speech?” Karl asked. “Is that, I mean, a lot of people, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech.”
Trump retorted, “She’d probably go after people like you! Because you treat me so unfairly! It’s hate! You have a lot of hate in your heart!
Would that be appropriate?” Karl asked.
That is when Trump brought up his lawsuit against ABC that resulted in a $16 million payout for the president.
“Maybe they’ll come after ABC. Well, ABC paid me 16 million dollars recently for a form of hate speech, right? Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech, so maybe they’ll have to go after you,” Trump said.
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He continued, stating the “radical left” harmed the country, but it is getting fixed.
“Look, we want everything to be fair. It hasn’t been fair. And the radical left has done tremendous damage to the country, but we’re fixing it.
We have right now the hottest country anywhere in the world. And remember, one year ago, our country was dead,” Trump continued. “And now Washington, D.C., is fixed, and I fix it.”
“The mayor was fine. The mayor, the mayor was just fine, OK? The mayor had the sick city for many years. She’s been mayor for many years,” Trump added. “The one that fixed it was me and my people, and it is so safe. You should take your beautiful wife tonight and have dinner down there.”
“You won’t be shot, you won’t get accosted, you won’t even be looked at incorrectly by anybody,” Trump said. “Washington, D.C., is safe, now we’re going to Memphis where it’s pretty rough, to put it mildly. And then we’re gonna have to go.”
