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These interviews are inexcusable. And I don't mean from Trump's end, but the network and interviewer's. Not ONE of the people who have interviewed Trump over the last two years has approached interviewing Trump from anywhere but a position of deference and weakness.
He lies, blatantly, and these people pull bullshit word games where they think they're fucking geniuses tricking him into making these statements that accomplish nothing. In reality? They're cowards who refuse to directly confront a fascist because their income relies on them not doing so. Press him and force him to walk out, and then call him a coward for running away from the American people's questions. Tell him he's lying, and that we all know he's lying. Stop. Playing. Games.
This American press **is** the enemy of the people. But, because they're beholden to capital, not because they're anti-Trump. They normalize Trump, day by day, as they profit off of his destruction of the state.
CNN and the NYT have done more to normalize fascism in the US over the last four years than the last 200 years of conservative thought has.
Comment by Be1029384756 at 15/10/2018 at 09:53 UTC
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I kind of agree. I was bristling at how Leslie Stahl (and others) just let lie after lie float by. The economy is good? How? Wages and jobs suck. Benefits are gone. The stock market has been tanking. His idiotic tariffs are crushing farmers. He quotes trade deficit values as if they're real money. He's shattered deficit and debt records, and is leaving a super-destructive debt bomb that will go off sooner rather than later. He hasn't done any significant deals, the Canada and Mexico deal was done years ago and called NAFTA and he violated it to create a fake crisis to "fix". The latest one has no changes, they just humored his uneducated ass and let him think he'd done something and they changed the acronym. Mexico and Canada are laughing. He never put in the usual work of finding proper justices and then lobbying for cross-aisle support, he just outsourced it to two corrupt liars and then used the nuclear option to plot through two unqualified boobs with the lowest number of votes ever. He hasn't created a single job, his CEO's council of billionaires all walked away on his pro-Nazi comments, his wall is a joke, his administration still has thousands of unfilled positions and the ones he did fill have had unprecenteded turnover of unqualified jackals like Omarosa and Scott Pruitt and a hundred more crooks and idiots.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 23:42 UTC
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The chance for that interview was before the presidency. He choses his interviews and they are screened so he won't get a tough interview Ever. You want to know where the tough interviewers are? Somewhere else. Interviewing Mark Zuckerberg or someone with an interest in appearing transparent