President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei and Cabinet officials.
On Sunday, Stephanopoulos spoke to Vice President JD Vance and asked whether a top Trump official, Tom Homan, kept the $50,000 bribe that the FBI taped him accepting.
Over and over, Vance refused to answer the question, asking instead, "Bribe for what?" Vance then lashed out at Stephanopoulos, claiming he was spinning left-wing conspiracy theories. When Stephanopoulos asked what happened to the money, Vance refused to respond, so the anchor threw it to a commercial break.
The Trump administration dropped the investigation of Homan for the incident when entering office.
Trump has clashed with Stephanopoulos, who served in President Bill Clinton's administration in the 1990s. Earlier this year, ABC News settled a lawsuit with Trump over comments from Stephanopoulos.
During his meeting with Milei over the $20 billion bailout of his country, Trump attacked the "fake news" and specifically cited Stephanopoulos.
"We'll take a couple of questions, and I'm sure they'll be incredibly non-hostile, frankly, like JD went through a very friendly interview with George [Stephanopoulos]," Trump said, using a derogatory mispronunciation of the reporter's name.
"He was nice enough to pay me $16 million last time we came — he had to pay $16 million to me. Which is good. It was worth it. It was worth having somebody lie. You get $16 million. That's good," Trump continued. "But JD had a very nasty person interviewing him and we can't let that happen. It's just inappropriate to cut off a highly respected vice president of the United States, mid-sentence. I guess it's one way to win an argument. That was the only way. Certainly, it's a pretty inappropriate."
Trump then refused to take a question from ABC News due to the Vance interview.
