NPR CEO Katherine Maher expressed regret during a congressional hearing Wednesday over past statements from her calling President Donald Trump a “fascist” and “deranged racist sociopath.”
The NPR chief also admitted during her testimony in front of the newly formed House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency that the taxpayer-funded outlet made mistakes in its coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the origins of COVID-19.
The posts, which were made before Maher took over as NPR’s chief, were brought up during the hearing reviewing NPR and PBS’s use of federal funds.
“Let me ask you, why did you call President Trump a fascist and a deranged racist sociopath in 2020?” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) asked Maher.
“I regret those tweets,” Maher said during
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