Chris Wallace interview faves

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...he captured every nasty, incoherent angle of the soggy cheeto.


the incoherence...

Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller
This is a back and forth that actually happened.

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the killer virus denial...

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins 3h
Chris Wallace pushes back on Trump's inaccurate claim that if there was less testing there would be fewer cases. "Testing is up 37 percent." Trump: "Well, that's good." Wallace: "Cases are up 194 percent. It isn't just that testing has gone up, it's that the virus has spread."

A Worried Citizen @ThePubliusUSA 3h
BREAKING: Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump about the American death count (145,000) as a result of COVID-19, to which he responded: "It is what it is." What other evidence do you need to conclude he is fundamentally unfit for office?

Daniel Dale @ddale8 3h
Chris Wallace told Trump that federal funding for education mostly goes to disadvantaged students (Title I and special education); he asked why Trump wouldn't send more money to help reopening, rather than threaten less.

Trump: "Chris, let the schools open."

Daniel Dale @ddale8 4h
Chris Wallace told Trump that this isn't "embers" as he keeps claiming, this is a "forest fire."

Trump: "No, no. But I don't say -- I say 'flames,' we'll put out the flames. And we'll put out in some cases just burning embers. We also have burning embers."

Erica Werner @ericawerner 3h
Chris Wallace asserts US has 7th-highest mortality rate (based on Hopkins data)
Trump: "I heard we had the best mortality rate!"
Demands charts, papers from aides he insists prove it, tells Wallace he's fake news.
Wallace: "I don't think I'm fake news."
Trump: "Yes you are."

Caz2LA @Caz2La 53m
“I’ll be right eventually. I will be right eventually. You know I said, 'It's going to disappear.' I'll say it again,' the president told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in an hour-long interview. 'It's going to disappear and I'll be right,' he continued.

the racism...

Jim Acosta @Acosta 3h
Trump on Fox News Sunday on renaming Fort Bragg: “We’re going to name it after the Reverend Al Sharpton? What are you going to name it, Chris, tell me what you’re going to name it?”

Daniel Dale @ddale8
Chris Wallace told Trump that the military is in favor of (either the defense spending bill or renaming bases named for Confederates - it wasn't exactly clear in the transcript).

Trump: "I don’t care what the military says. I do – I’m supposed to make the decision."

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod 3h
My favorite part of the very good Chris Wallace interview with @realDonaldTrump:
TRUMP: “Now we have the 1619 project. What is THAT all about?”
WALLACE: “Slavery.”

the meltdown...