Conservative commentator Meghan McCain criticized ABC News' Martha Raddatz for her handling of an interview with U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance on the network's Sunday program, “This Week.”
“It's just insane that Martha and her producers didn't realize how terrible her line of questioning would be to a normal person,” McCain said. I wrote this on Sunday's X.the platform formerly known as Twitter. “She would feel differently if she lived next door to an apartment complex where Venezuelan gangs hang out.”
McCain, the daughter of the late Republican senator and a leading figure in right-wing media, said Raddatz asked former President Trump's running mate Vance if he supported Trump's statements about the presence of gangs in Aurora, Colorado. He was referring to the question. After the Republican mayor said the claims damaging the city were “grossly exaggerated.”
“The incident was isolated to a small number of apartment complexes,” Raddatz said, noting that the Republican mayor said law enforcement “acted on those concerns.”
“Venezuela gangs have taken over only a handful of apartment complexes in the United States,” Vance retorted. “And the problem is Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris' open borders? America? People are disgusted by what's going on and they have every right to be.”
McCain said Raddatz “sounds like a psychopath. Completely psychotic.”
McCain, a former co-host of ABC's “The View,” has publicly criticized the network in the past, accusing her co-hosts of bullying her during her time on the show.
