Trump turned fire on Fox News during a rally in Pennsylvania

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The U.S President Donald Trump has turned his fire on Fox News during a typically rambling rally speech in Pennsylvania. He threatened to have his attorney general investigate Democrats and FBI for treason and joked regarding serving 5 terms as president. Trump was in the northeastern state on Tuesday to campaign for Republican congressional candidate Fred Keller, ahead of a special election. Trump asked the crowd, “What’s going on with Fox, by the way”? “They’re putting more Democrats on than Republicans. Something strange is going on at Fox, folks! Something very strange”! His remarks made the crowd to loudly boo the right-wing television network.

The president had earlier blamed Fox News of moving to the losing side in a series of tweets posted on Sunday. Trump appeared angered by the cable network’s decision to screen a televised town hall event featuring Pete Buttigieg. The mayor of South Bend (a city in Indiana) is an increasingly popular Democratic primary candidate. Trump wrote, “Hard to believe that Fox News is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete. Fox is moving more and more to the losing side in covering the Dems. They got dumped from the Democrats boring debates, and they just want in. They forgot the people who got them there”.

The president also expressed increasing frustration with Fox News over recent weeks, in spite of the network’s consistently pro-Trump stance. Trump tweeted on 16^th April, “So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on Fox News”. It was due to the cable network hosted an event with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. During Monday’s rally the president also criticized Democratic front-runner Joe Biden. The former vice president was born in Pennsylvania but later moved to Delaware as a child. He represented the latter state in the U.S senate for over 30 years. Trump claimed, “I guess he was born here, but he left you folks”.