Eric Bolling Urges Trump to Sue Fox News Over “Fake” Polls: Media Bias or Legal Case?

In a bold and unex­pect­ed move, for­mer Fox News host Eric Bolling is encour­ag­ing Don­ald Trump to take legal action against his old employer—Fox News—over what he calls “decep­tive and defam­a­to­ry polling.” This lat­est clash between Trump allies and main­stream media high­lights grow­ing dis­trust in polit­i­cal polling and rais­es seri­ous ques­tions about how data is pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic in an elec­tion year.

Bolling, now a host on News­max and active on YouTube, recent­ly used his plat­form to call out Fox News for pub­lish­ing a poll that showed Trump with a 55% dis­ap­proval rat­ing. Dur­ing a seg­ment that has since gone viral, Bolling accused the net­work of delib­er­ate­ly dis­tort­ing the num­bers to make Trump look weak­er ahead of the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.

“You can’t just keep push­ing these skewed num­bers and call­ing it ‘news,’” Bolling said. “If the num­bers are fake and dam­ag­ing, they’re not just wrong—they’re action­able.”

You can watch Eric Bolling’s full com­men­tary here:

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Bolling likened the poll to oth­er high-pro­file media bat­tles Trump has been involved in, includ­ing his ongo­ing law­suits against The New York Times and CNN, where he alleges delib­er­ate mis­in­for­ma­tion and defama­tion. His call for legal action comes as Trump’s team con­tin­ues to wage war against what they describe as “fake news” and polit­i­cal­ly biased report­ing.

Join­ing Bolling in this media offen­sive is Trump’s press sec­re­tary, Karo­line Leav­itt, who echoed his con­cerns. Leav­itt claimed that Fox’s recent poll is just the lat­est in a long line of skewed sur­veys that con­sis­tent­ly under­rep­re­sent Trump’s true sup­port.

“We’ve seen this movie before,” Leav­itt said. “The main­stream media, includ­ing Fox, wants to write a nar­ra­tive of Trump in decline. But the real sto­ry is in the mas­sive sup­port we see at ral­lies, in fundrais­ing, and across the coun­try.”

Despite mount­ing pres­sure, Fox News is stand­ing firm. Anchor John Roberts addressed the back­lash direct­ly, stat­ing, “Here at Fox News, we stand by our polling, as we always have.” The net­work main­tains that its polling is based on rig­or­ous method­ol­o­gy and con­duct­ed by rep­utable firms.

But some con­ser­v­a­tives aren’t buy­ing it. Trump’s senior advis­er Stephen Miller recent­ly crit­i­cized the network’s poll­ster on-air, urg­ing Fox to “fire them imme­di­ate­ly” and warn­ing that con­tin­ued mis­in­for­ma­tion could cost them cred­i­bil­i­ty with Repub­li­can vot­ers.

Trump him­self has tak­en to Truth Social in recent weeks to call out polls he believes are biased, label­ing them “pho­ny,” “fake,” and “a dis­grace.” He has even demand­ed con­gres­sion­al inves­ti­ga­tions into media polling prac­tices.

This isn’t the first time Trump and Fox News have butted heads. Although Fox was a pow­er­ful plat­form for Trump dur­ing his pres­i­den­cy, their rela­tion­ship has frayed in recent years—particularly over cov­er­age of the 2020 elec­tion and its after­math.

As the 2024 race heats up, one thing is cer­tain: the fight over pub­lic per­cep­tion is just as impor­tant as the cam­paign trail itself. Whether Trump takes Bolling’s advice and sues Fox remains to be seen, but the mes­sage is clear—polls are no longer just num­bers; they’re polit­i­cal weapons.