‘Set a very bad tone’: Trump targets Aussie reporter
Donald Trump confirmed that after the US President Australian correspondent, Prime Minister Anthony will meet with Albanian in the coming days.
“Your leader is coming to see me very soon,” he said to ABC reporter John Lyons, talking to journalists in the White House before going to the United Kingdom.
Mr. Trump did not specify when and where Mr. Albanian would meet and the federal government has not yet approved the meeting.
The president’s comments came after objection to questions about whether a US president of a US president was in the office as he was in the office.
Mr. Trump said that his children are “conducting the job ..
“I think you are very hurting Australia right now,” he added.
“And they want to deal with me.
“You know, your leader comes to see me very soon.
I will tell him about you.
“You put a very bad tone.”
ABC’s American editor and award -winning journalist Bay Lyons defended the inquiry line.
“As a journalist, our business is to ask questions that an average person is interested in”.
“And I think an average person in Australia will be interested in how a president gets so rich in the office ‘.
“We politely asked them, respectfully. They didn’t shout. They didn’t harass.”
A social media account connected to the White House, Mr. Trump, said that he was a kabar rude foreign news ”.
Federal deputies from the political divide defended ABC, saying that journalists have the right to ask difficult questions.
“Donald Trump asked some of these difficult questions, and this is something we see every day in the Australian media,” Minister Clare O’Neil said on Wednesday to the Sunrise program of the Sunrise program.
“Journalists are there to try to hold politicians responsible and have the right to ask difficult questions.”
Citizens Senator Bridget McKenzie added that this is the “bucket of the year for ABC because it can confirm that a meeting is approaching.
“There is nothing wrong with journalists asking difficult questions,” he said.
When asked if he could confirm the meeting, Mrs. O’Neil said, “We have absolutely intended and two people here,” he said.
However, the liberal senator and former ABC journalist Sarah Henderson said that the national publisher should explain himself.
“It would be useful for ABC to explain this inquiry line at a time when trade, defense and national security are so important in our relationship with our closest ally.”
“Australians should wait for the highest standards of our public national publisher.”
The Prime Minister is preparing to travel to New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in the coming days, where there is a face -to -face possibility with Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump praised Mr. Arnavenes as a “good man, after the two leaders had a fourth phone call at the beginning of September.
The Prime Minister described his call with Mr. Trump as “really warm ..
In June, a face-to-face meeting was planned between the two leaders of the G7 summit in Canada, but Mr. Trump was canceled after returning to the United States early to deal with the Iran-Israeli conflict.
The UN’s “senior week” starts in New York on Monday.
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