Donald Trump at The New York Times: Live on Twitter

The New York Times ^ | 11/22/2016 | NY Times

[JamesP81]

The link at the top of this page.

If you are talking about the link to the NYT tweets, I didn't see anything in those mentioning HRC.

[VanDeKoik]

Well right now he cant call for anything.

He has no legal presidential power.

People seriously have to remember that. This is a gray period of forming a government. He wont have any actual power until the end of January.

[ZULU]

Exactly!

[dhs12345]

Lets hope that Hillary’s chances of being in political office are all but gone. We need to destroy her and the rest of the Clinton cartel’s chances of returning and the only way to do this is to finish the job with the Clinton Foundation.

[Cementjungle]

NY times interview that was live blogged.

We're supposed to suddenly believe what the NYT says? It's in conflict with what Kellyanne Conway said on 2 different shows today. I trust her more than what some NYT reporter blogs about.

[mrs9x]

Let’s wait until the guy is actually Commander in Chief. There really is no need to throw blood in the water by saying that he is going to allow the feds to prosecute the Clintons.

[Reno89519]

Agree, let a special prosecutor investigate. That way Trump stays away from it. And, importantly, justice is served.

[proust]

Go back to the tweets, time stamp 1:16, 1:17, 1:18, 1:23, 1:24 pm

[wiseprince]

Trump should not do these types of interviews. They give out one word answers and then get the news cycles to talk about it for a week before they put out the full thing. Just talk directly to the people Trump and let the failing New York times research what you told us. Your message has from day one gotten muddled once the MSM filter is applied

[JamesP81]

He thinks that doing so would be detrimental in the long run for the country, and frankly, I might be leaning that way myself.

Might be some truth in this. I was having this conversation last night with a good friend of mine. It's a political hot potato to be sure. The danger is giving the appearance that you're prosecuting your opponent because she ran against you.

I figure the way to do it is start slow, nail some low level types first. Do that for a while, get a few to turn state's evidence along the way, then nail someone important in the upper tier. Once you've done a couple of those, then go for the top.

[proust]

Just a what if, but what if Trump knows Hillary’s health gives her less than a year? He’d look like a real jerk if he prosecuted her to her death bed.

[JamesP81]

Just a what if, but what if Trump knows Hillary’s health gives her less than a year? He’d look like a real jerk if he prosecuted her to her death bed.

I've also considered this possibility.

[Alberta's Child]

Keep in mind that Trump probably went into this interview woefully unprepared to discuss any matters of substance. We saw a lot of this during the campaign when he’d spend days posting Twitter messages to attack Hillary Clinton over things that he could have addressed much more effectively when she was standing ten feet away from him in a debate, with 80 million people watching on TV.

[MaxistheBest]

“Trump should not do these types of interviews.”

He did this on his own, against some very good advice...he’s back to “primary Trump” where he says anything....this morning he Twittered that the NY Times was a failing dishonest newspaper...2 hours later he’s saying how much respect he has for the paper..

[scbison]

Well Breitbart was saying how great the live blog was becusae it was only stating what was being said and no editorializing.. take what is worth.

[Blue Jays]

President Trump is handling this masterfully.
There is no need for him to "telegraph" sensitive national security topics to radicalized leftwingers in advance of his upcoming January inauguration.
Have confidence his new AG/DOJ/FBI will properly pursue justice without need for secret airplane meetings while parked on the tarmac.

[Mollypitcher1]

You just move from one silly display of emotion to another.

All of this stuff is going to be done. Right now he has to assemble his government and try to settle the post-election situation down.

So take a chill pill and stop with the drama queen antics.
.......................................................
Thank you for what needed to be said. These continual drama queen antics are tiresome......and suspicious.

[grania]

Just a what if, but what if Trump knows hillary....less than a year..

hmmmmm.....could he have made a deal with Bill that keeps her out of the public eye? BC's legacy is at stake, too.

I don't think we should complain too much. DJT single-handedly did what nobody else was able to do....keep the wench from becoming President.

[agere_contra]

He’s going to soft-pedal on that until Obama is no longer President.

Once Obama has lost pardon power then see what happens.

[wiseprince]

I really don’t mind him tweaking the failing New York Times (works for me). The bigger problem is that when he does these interviews they splice it up and highlight what THEY want to highlight. I went to read the tweets after I heard the climate change “switch” but it was completely mis-represented. It’s just Trump giving a non answer and they tried to make it seem like he was completely flipping and that was completely false. Same thing with Hillary, he specifically says he hasn’t taken it off the take but that it’s not something he wants to do. Completely non controversial (He has bigger fish to fry). They made it seem like he let her off the hook. Even during the debate he says, “You know, I didn’t think I would do this and I don’t want to do this but I’m going to appoint an independent prosecutor to blah blah blah....” Now, if I took out one line from the code and wrote it like this

Trump: “I don’t want to do this” regarding prosecuting Hillary.

You have a completely different sense of what happened but watching the video it’s clear what he was saying and doing. The MSM are scum. I just heard Rush’s take on how the media is going to try to take down Trump for 4 years and Trump would do well to listen to Rush and proceed with that in mind (even if he still chooses to engage, he just needs to know what he’s getting into. I think he does)