Fox’s Bret Baier Fends Off Trump Fans Bombarding Him With Kamala Harris Interview Conspiracy Theories

Fox News anchor Bret Baier fended off a blizzard of conspiracy-minded accusations from supporters of former President Donald Trump over Baier’s upcoming interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

VP Harris has been on a media blitz recently, with a big 60 Minutes interview, lengthy appearances on Alex Cooper’s popular Call Her Daddy podcast, ABC’s The View, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and more last week.

And this week, Harris is on a Black media mini-blitz with extensive interviews on Roland Martin Unfiltered, The Shade Room, and an event Charlamagne Tha God.

But a new twist to that strategy emerged with the news that Harris will sit for a Fox News interview with Baier that will air on Wednesday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report, and is reportedly seeking an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

News of the Fox interview did not sit well with Trump, who lashed out at Baier on Truth Social. It also didn’t sit well with Trump fans, who peppered Baier with accusations in the aftermath — some of which Baier hit back at on X/Twitter.

When Baier announced the interview, Trump super-fan Catturd remarked “Softball questions and no follow up incoming.”

Mr. Turd did not receive the favor of a response, but other Trump fans did:

@hodgetwins: Kamala wouldn’t be doing this interview on Fox unless her team knew they would go easy on her

@MagaMan0000: Yep. @BretBaier will probably pass her the questions.

@BretBaier: No. No he won’t. Thanks for watching.

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@GunDogJay: To get this interview @FoxNews and @BretBaier had to make so many concessions to Harris Team that this interview will be as watered down as they come. Not interested.

@TomBevanRCP: There is absolutely no way @BretBaier agreed to any pre-conditions with the Harris campaign. Knowing Bret, I would expect a tough, fair interview.

@BretBaier: Thanks Tom – there were no preconditions to get the interview. No one has the questions ahead of time —except me. No topic is off the table. And if there is any editing -it will be very minimal for timing and will be editorially the same question and answer- we are pre taping the interview right before my live show Wednesday in Pa. Thanks

@BretBaier: Not true. No concessions. Thanks for watching while you have.

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@robert1berg (tweet deleted)

@BretBaier: Not true. Invited him every week. Thanks.

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@clint1w: No doubt she already has the list of questions, not sure I trust him! And she still hasn’t held a real press conference with real journalists with random unscripted questions, has this ever happened before with any other presidential nominee?

@BretBaier: No one has the questions. Except me. Thanks.

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@Vanessa31560: @BretBaier @FoxNews KAMALA HARRIS needs to answer HARD Questions and pushed back on hard if she deflects. The fact that it’s pre-taped is a concern.

@BretBaier: It will run as-Live – in its entirety. It is taped because they gave us a time just before my show. We plan to run it uninterrupted — and not edited

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@99JWD: Why can’t you do a live interview? This is such an embarrassment for FOX. Anyone associated with this network should be raising these questions.

@BretBaier: Because that was the time the campaign gave us. 5-530p. My show starts at 6p. We are running the interview AS-live. Without edits. Uninterrupted. Without a commercial break. What else would you like to know? Thanks for watching.

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@FreedomForce45: This post is very confusing, is it live , is it taped? “We plan” but we all know, plans change. Basically you are saying (best I can assume) is it’ll be pre recorded and the answers will be edited. Because Fox News is (like others) FAKE NEWS!

@BretBaier: Let’s try again. It will be as-live —not edited – run from beginning to end – no changes – period. We just confirmed there will be no commercials to interrupt the interview. Hence the “plan” before we confirmed that. Thanks for watching.

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@spgtty: You already said it would be edited. Which is true? Will the full interview transcript be released?

@BretBaier: I never said it would be edited. I said it would be taped as-live before my show – You will see the WHOLE interview on @SpecialReport -Unedited. Uninterrupted unchanged. You can have the transcript too if you want. It all will air. Thanks.

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@ivanyvienen64: The issue is not the questions. There are plenty of obvious ones. How would you handle the answers or LACK of answers is what we are concerned about…

This is the one chance to have a real interview don’t waste it

@BretBaier: Ok.

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@Summertimewater: Taped is not live.

@BretBaier: You’re right. It’s not. It’s AS-live 39’mins earlier. Unedited. Unchanged with no commercials. Thanks

The interview will be taped Wednesday, Oct. 16 and air on Special Report with Bret Baier at 6:00 PM ET.

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