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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you need a good laugh at Donald's expense today - watch this from 1990
If we still had Helen Thomas sitting in the briefing room and Barbara Walters in an interviewers chair, it might be/already have been easier to unseat Donald Trump.
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TRUMP: Ive never seen press reporting as I have with regard to me, and I hope the general public understands how inherently dishonest the press in this country is.
WALTERS: As a member of the press let me try to clear up some of the things that you say arent true. My bankers and I worked out a terrific deal that allows me to come out stronger than ever. I see the deal as a great victory. Being on the verge of bankruptcy, being bailed out by the banks? [Crosstalk] Skating on thin ice and almost drowning? Thats a businessman to be admired?
TRUMP: You say on the verge of bankruptcy, Barbara, and you talk on the verge and you listen to what people say
WALTERS: I talked to your bankers.
TRUMP: Well, thats fine. And what did they say? I mean, you know, depending on which banker youre talking to, what did they say?
WALTERS: Several.
[...]
TRUMP: Well, I dont know what the bankers have said. The Plaza is a very valuable property. Everybody told me, oh, you paid too much, you paid too much, now theyre all saying what a great deal he made on the Plaza.
WALTERS: No theyre not.
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If you need a good laugh at Donald's expense today - watch this from 1990 (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2020
OP
Where are the journalists with the facts like Barbara? Honestly this has been a problem since Bush.
The Wielding Truth
Jul 2020
#1
We can not be afraid of our government in a democracy! We need honesty to make it work.
The Wielding Truth
Jul 2020
#4
THANK YOU !!! We hardly get a person who does their oppo homework interviewing these guys
uponit7771
Jul 2020
#10
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)1. Where are the journalists with the facts like Barbara? Honestly this has been a problem since Bush.
They are not doing their jobs. We need go-getters armed with the truth?!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)2. Didn't Chuck Todd say ...
"If I ask tough questions, they won't come back on my show."
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)4. We can not be afraid of our government in a democracy! We need honesty to make it work.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)10. THANK YOU !!! We hardly get a person who does their oppo homework interviewing these guys
underpants
(183,043 posts)3. Barbara: Several.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)6. And then "No, they're not."
cayugafalls
(5,669 posts)7. The full interview is great.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)8. Did anybody else notice that his speech patterns and sounds are very similar to Ivanka?
She must have studied him religiously.