Overview
- Confronted outside the White House, the president dismissed PBS White House correspondent Liz Landers as a “rotten reporter” after she challenged his claim that the 2020 election was rigged.
- Liz Landers’ question referenced recent federal actions to obtain 2020 election records in Arizona, with related seizures also reported in Georgia.
- Landers noted that Bill Barr, the president’s 2020 attorney general, concluded there was no measurable voter fraud that would have changed the election outcome.
- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said she provided requested records and reiterated that a roughly 10,000-hour state inquiry found no evidence of widespread fraud in Arizona’s 2020 election.
- The exchange fits a pattern of the president insulting women journalists who press him, with recent targets including CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and CBS’s Nancy Cordes.