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Trump delivers another blow to Fox News: 'Fox isn’t working for us anymore!'

President Donald Trump let loose on Fox News on Wednesday, saying the network "isn’t working for us anymore" while encouraging his followers to look for an alternative to his long-cherished cable news channel.

In a three-part Twitter attack, Trump escalated his feud that started earlier this year when the network started featuring more Democratic commentators and hosted a series of town halls with Democratic presidential candidates.

On Wednesday Trump tee'd off on Fox News over an appearance by Democratic National Committee spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa.

"Just watched @FoxNews heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox. Terrible considering that Fox couldn’t even land a debate, the Dems give them NOTHING! @CNN & @MSNBC are all in for the Open Border Socialists (or beyond)," Trump wrote.

In a wide-ranging interview on the 2020 election with Fox News anchor Sandra Smith, Hinojosa took multiple swipes at the president, his field operation in 2016, and policies like border separations — but what seemed to provoke Trump was a reference to polling that shows him losing to Democratic front-runners in several battleground states. [More truth, more kryptonite]

"Fox hires “give Hillary the questions” @donnabrazile, Juan Williams and low ratings Shep Smith. HOPELESS & CLUELESS! They should go all the way LEFT and I will still find a way to Win - That’s what I do, Win. Too Bad!" Trump continued, "I don’t want to Win for myself, I only want to Win for the people. The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!"

Both Smith and Williams have landed in hot water with Trump in the past for critical coverage of the escalating trade war with China, references to unflattering polling numbers and other perceived transgressions. Trump tweeted in early August that the network is "different from what they used to be."

Some Fox hosts have closed ranks behind their employer in the face of Trump's criticism. "Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you," tweeted Brit Hume, a longtime political analyst with the network who has called out Trump in the past.

Hinojosa hit back at the president later Wednesday morning in a tweet of her own.

"Thanks for watching. It’s pronounced So-Chi, you know, like the city in Russia," she wrote.

"I don’t want to Win for myself, I only want to Win for the people. The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!"

Big RR wrote:What amazes me is that there are people who would clearly prefer to listen/watch/read "news" made by someone "working for us" as opposed to relatively objective news (or at least news not propaganda, even if it is favorable to your "side"). One can argue about how some reporting is slanted, but to actually go out and look for a news outlet that is "working for us" is idiocy at the very least. Just make up your own stories and pretend its news.

Fox News Reporter Says Trump Called Him Into Oval Office to Argue He Was Right About Dorian Threatening Alabama

Fox News White House reporter John Roberts said President Donald Trump called him into the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon to argue that he was right about Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama.

During the meeting, Roberts explained in an internal Fox email obtained by CNN, Trump argued that he was correct in claiming that early projections of Dorian showed it would impact Alabama. "He stressed to me that forecasts for Dorian last week had Alabama in the warning cone," the reporter wrote. "He insisted that it is unfair to say Alabama was never threatened by the storm."

Roberts believed that the president was "just looking for acknowledgment that he was not wrong for saying that at some point, Alabama was at risk ⁠— even if the situation had changed by the time he issued the tweet." He said the president also used maps and visuals in a bid to prove his point.

Trump has faced immense backlash in the past 24 hours for displaying a map in the Oval Office of Hurricane Dorian's path that appeared to be shoddily altered to include Alabama in the storm's trajectory.

The president appeared to have been doubling down on a tweet he shared on Sunday, where he alleged that Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama were all states in the impending storm's path. Moments later, the National Weather service responded on Twitter by refuting the president's claims and assuring Alabama residents that they would not be affected by the storm.

Roberts was among the many reporters who condemned the president's use of the altered map on Wednesday. "This is a forecast track that the president held up from last week where it looked like the hurricane was going to slam into the Florida coast maybe even across the peninsula and get into the Gulf of Mexico," he told host Bret Baier during a Fox News segment yesterday afternoon.

"You can see somebody with a Sharpie or some other writing instruments added a little bit to the cone of uncertainty, which was not a part of the official forecast, which included the Florida panhandle and parts of Alabama," Roberts continued, before concluding that Alabama "was never part of the official forecast."

A White House aide familiar with Roberts' Thursday meeting with Trump told CNN that the president had also criticized Fox News anchor Shephard Smith over his unfavorable coverage of the Alabama map. Trump wanted to "hit back at Shepard Smith," the aide said.

After Roberts pushed back against the president's argument by noting that Dorian trajectory did not include Alabama when he sent out the tweet on Sunday, the president "seemed to agree that the forecast track had moved," the reporter wrote in the email.

"But he was adamant that at some point, Alabama was at risk," Roberts added. "He also reminded that on occasions in the past, forecast tracks have changed dramatically."

LJ, the video you linked was blocked by FUX News.