(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) ABC News anchor David Muir—the debate moderator who infamously bickered with future President-elect Donald Trump in September—was caught using clothespins to make his fire jacket appear custom-tailored while covering the California wildfires.
Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, one of the Pacific Palisades residents who was displaced by the raging inferno, wrote that Muir was “pathetic” after a viral clip showed him briefly turn to the side during Wednesday’s broadcast, exposing the clothespins that held his clothes tight to his body.
Typical for @DavidMuir.
Also pathetic. https://t.co/ip5ac3jxAC
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 9, 2025
Conservative pundit Mike Cernovich called Muir a “makeup wearing mofo,” suggesting the “snacky” reporter was more concerned with his looks than the devastation surrounding him.
Social-media influencer Paul A. Szypula wrote, “Just in case your opinion of @DavidMuir wasn’t already low enough” after accusing him of trying to look “more svelte on camera.”
ABC’s David Muir, who moderated the one debate between Trump and Harris, is caught using clothespins on a fire jacket to make himself look more svelte on camera.
Just in case your opinion of @DavidMuir wasn’t already low enough.pic.twitter.com/RdPjHzfPMp
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 9, 2025
And Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, revealed that Muir “reportedly is called ‘Zoolander’ at his gym because of his vanity”—a reference to the 2001 Ben Stiller comedy poking fun at flighty male fashion models.
ABC News propagandist @DavidMuir was the one who got his "fact" "checks" wrong in the presidential debate. He reportedly is called "Zoolander" at his gym because of his vanity.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 9, 2025
During Trump’s only presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis smugly “fact-checked” the Republican candidate repeatedly, including over points where their information was later proven to be inaccurate.
The list of people in the media claiming that crime is falling is endless.
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DAVID MUIR: President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country
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David Muir, “Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript,” ABC News, September 10, 2024.… pic.twitter.com/pug0x91NO0— Crime Prevention Research Center (@CrimeResearch1) September 14, 2024
They likewise ignored blatant falsehoods and exaggerations from Harris, making it appear to uninformed viewers as though Trump were a serial liar and Harris were the voice of reason and stability.
However, evidence—including a sworn affidavit—emerged afterward exposing the fact that ABC News had colluded with Harris’s campaign to avoid asking her difficult questions and to only “fact check” Trump.
Breaking – Here is the ABC whistleblower affidavit stating how ABC arranged a bias, anti-Trump debate. There are several pages after the verification page that were specifics about the job the whistleblower did and a transcript of the recordings he had made. pic.twitter.com/JM9vvXbxok
— Thera (@Tamor12) September 15, 2024
Although Muir brushed off the scandal as “noise,” the network saw its viewership drop significantly, and it eventually was forced to lay off at least 75 employees.
Trump, on the other hand, went on to win the election in a landslide, and he was further vindicated after ABC News settled an unrelated defamation lawsuit with him for $15 million over false claims made by anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Soon-to-be First Son Donald Trump Jr. was among those who weighed in on Muir’s latest display of fakery.
“David Muir, the supposed moderator of my father‘s presidential debate, who instead chose to be a participant, is so vain that as people in Los Angeles are losing everything, he used clothes pins to make his fake fireman’s jacket more form fitting,” Trump Jr. wrote. “Sick!”
David Muir, the supposed moderator of my father‘s presidential debate, who instead chose to be a participant, is so vain that as people in Los Angeles are losing everything, he used clothes pins to make his fake fireman’s jacket more form fitting.
Sick! pic.twitter.com/0jXW4OPfkq— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 9, 2025
Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.
