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Real Questions from Fox News to President Trump

June 26, 2017 at 4:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

BuzzFeed compiles questions that Pete Hegseth of Fox News asked President Trump in a recent interview.

Here are some of the better ones:

HEGSETH: Mr. President, you face resistance on this bill; but, of course, you’ve faced resistance on the entirety of your agenda. Who’s been your biggest opponent? Has it been Democrats resisting? Has it been fake news media? Has it been deep state leaks? What’s — when you think about it, what holds it up the most?

HEGSETH: How frustrating is it to have former president Obama there, out there leading the resistance?

HEGSETH: Some people might say it’s – the level of anger is unprecedented, but it’s also unprecedented for a former president to come out the way President Obama has. He came out on Facebook recently, you may have seen it, he said you bill, Mr. President, “Not a healthcare bill, it’s a massive transfer of wealth; it’s going to harm Americans. It’s mean.” What do you say to the former President…

HEGSETH: I opened up the failing “New York Times” and “The Washington Post” this morning. No mention at all of this bill that you’re signing today. For veterans who are so passionate about this, it’s such a historic bill, are they going to cover this? And if they don’t, why don’t they cover it the way they cover every breathless scandal in the media today?

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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