Gretchen Carlson Spills Why Trump's 'Piggy' Attack Strikes Her 'At The Core'
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The former Fox News host weighed in on the president's "despicable" language toward female reporters.
Ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson took on President Donald Trump on Tuesday after video surfaced of him verbally attacking a female White House reporter and referring to her as “piggy” following her question about the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Carlson — in a post to X — shared a clip of what she referred to as the president’s “disgusting and degrading” treatment of Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey, treatment that the White House defended by accusing the reporter of behaving in an “inappropriate and unprofessional way towards her colleagues.”
“It strikes at the core for me since I faced similar shame,” wrote Carlson, the winner of the 1989 Miss America pageant.
“One of my Miss America celeb judges William Goldman wrote an entire book calling me ‘Miss Piggy’ saying I had been too fat to win ― at 105 lbs.”
Carlson was a vital figure in the #MeToo movement after filing a lawsuit against then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment in 2016, the same year she left the network. She went on to receive a reported $20 million settlement and an apology from the company.
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