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From the Washington Post this morning:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/06/trump-took-a-question-from-a-reporter-he-considered-hiring-and-used-it-to-bash-the-media/
President Trump spoke for about seven minutes during a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on Thursday before an interpreter opened the session to questions from journalists. Without hesitation, Trump called on the Daily Mail's David Martosko, who was a candidate to become White House press secretary before withdrawing from consideration two weeks ago.
I have to ask about this, Martosko said, after starting on the subject of North Korean nuclear deterrence. Since you started the whole wrestling thing, what are your thoughts about what has happened since then? I mean CNN went after you and has threatened to expose the identity of a person they said was responsible for it. I'd like your thoughts on that.
Yeah, I think what CNN did was unfortunate for them, Trump replied. As you know, now they have some pretty serious problems. They have been fake news for a long time. They've been covering me in a very, uh, very dishonest way.
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What a scene: The president of the United States, on foreign soil, awarding a reporter he considered hiring the first of only two questions available to American journalists at a joint news conference then using the occasion to bash other media outlets.
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spanone
(135,873 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)his birther bullshit about Obama. Groper Don the Con makes up shit all the time and assumes everyone else does the same.
Lock him up!
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Yeah. Fuck Yeah! Fake News.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)"What CNN did was unfortunate.."
That's like saying "If you hadn't been bad, I wouldn't have had to punch you in the face".
This question was clearly staged and Trump was prepared for it. In his warped mind, he's never at fault.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)"I fabricated a fake story about Obama's birth. I have a fake voter 'integrity' commission to support the fake notion that I won the popular vote."
All he does is lie and engage in psychological projection.
Wonder how much they paid that flack to ask that bullshit question?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)When will the people close to him care enough to get him professional help?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)No surprise that they would ask about a wrestling meme video.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Or the NY indictments that are sure to come down.
Real justice. Fake news. Right.