As bad as this was, Harris Faulkner spent probably half the time filibustering, or leading Trump into a filibustering answer. She bailed him out over and over and it was really fucking obvious. Fox needs to give her a raise, because she kept that from being much worse, but also just shot the little credibility she had left.
Everyone should see now that Harris Faulkner is a propagandist, not a journalist. Always has been, but this made it even more obvious.
That was one of the big goals Trump had coming in and the only one he succeeded at. He's been working his base for a bit that ABC isn't reliable and it hasn't gotten traction, because it's fucking stupid. This will give it some traction, even though it's even stupider now.
If anything, she was easy on him. Them's fighting words and she had every right to slap the shit out of him, ex-President or no. Very professional of her to not react to his provocations.