#Joe Biden rejects Chris Wallace interview after Trump calls him ‘incompetent’

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden rejected Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace’s request for an interview, the host said on his program.

“In our interview last week with President Trump, he questioned whether his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, could handle a similar encounter. This week, we asked the Biden campaign for an interview and they said the former vice president was not available,” Wallace said on his show Sunday.

“We’ll keep asking every week,” he added.

The statement by Wallace came one week after President Trump’s wide-ranging interview on his program, during which the commander-in-chief questioned whether the former vice president would be able to handle such hard-hitting questions.

The president told the Fox News host that Biden would be “crying for mommy” if forced to answer the same kinds of questions from Wallace.

“Let Biden sit through an interview like this, he’ll be on the ground crying for mommy. He’ll say ‘Mommy, mommy, please take me home,’” the president said.

“Well, we’ve asked him for an interview, sir,” Wallace replied.

“He can’t do an interview. He’s incompetent,” Trump said in response.

Immediately after his interview, Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield released a statement addressing claims made during the hour-long sitdown.

“For over a year, Donald Trump and his campaign have cycled through the same self-defeating attacks against Joe Biden and have failed to get traction on a single one.

“President Trump gave it yet another go on ‘Fox News Sunday’ this morning. He lurched from smear to smear, all while being forcefully corrected on most, including the lie that Joe Biden wouldn’t keep the American people safe and supports defunding the police — which has been fact-checked into oblivion over the last month,” Bedingfield said.

She neglected, however, to address the issue of Biden making his own appearance on the program.

One day after his interview with Trump, Wallace told fellow Fox News host Bret Baier that he believed Biden should put himself up to the same scrutiny and sit down for an interview.

“The fact is, the president is out there. He’s out there in this broiling heat with me for an hour, took all the questions,” he said in an appearance on Baier’s program last Monday, “You can like his answers or dislike them, but he had answers, and Joe Biden hasn’t faced that kind of scrutiny, hasn’t faced that kind of exposure.”

“You’ve got to feel at some point he’s going to come out from the basement. He’s going to have to be more exposed and take questions just as tough as the ones I asked this president.”

A spokesperson for the Biden campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.