Infuriating excerpt from a press interview I will post tomorrow, when people are awake. INFURIATING so you may want to wait until tomorrow to read it.
Q I just wanted to follow up on my colleague’s question about Russian interference. Can you pledge to the American people that you will not accept any foreign assistance in the upcoming election?
And on this idea of a purge in your administration, there was recently the departure of your Acting DNI, Joseph Maguire. You replaced him with your Ambassador to Germany, Rick Grenell. Some of your critics have pointed out that Ambassador Grenell has no intelligence experience. How can you justify to the American people having an Acting DNI with no intelligence experience?
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, first of all, I want no help from any country. And I haven’t been given help from any country.
And if you see what CNN, your wonderful network, said — (laughter) — I guess they apologized, in a way, for — didn’t they apologize for the fact that they said certain things that weren’t true? Tell me, what was their apology yesterday? What did they say?
Q Mr. President, I think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours sometimes, if you don’t mind me saying.
THE PRESIDENT: Your record is — let me tell you about your record. Your record is so bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Q I’m not ashamed of anything, and our —
THE PRESIDENT: You have probably the worst record —
Q — organization is not ashamed, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: — in the history of broadcasting.
In my last batch of tweets I posted a link to that presser, including the Nasssty Acosta.