Posted on 08/07/2020 2:12:11 AM PDT by Cronos
...We caught a glimpse of it last month when Chris Wallace of Fox News dismantled Trump’s argument that Joe Biden wants to defund the police. But we saw the complete picture on Monday night when with the help of a few color-coordinated charts the president hopelessly stumbled and bumbled his way through a train wreck of an interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios, which aired on HBO. ... Because the president didn’t have the luxury of calling on another reporter, he was forced to at least attempt to clarify his nonsensical arguments, like why the percentage of the American population that has died due to COVID-19 complications isn’t really that important. He could not do this, of course, and the result was one of the most incoherent, depressing, and flat-out embarrassing interviews of Trump’s presidency.
...jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”
realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.” ... When Swan points out that only 300 people in South Korea have died, out of a population of over 50 million, Trump says, “You don’t know that,” implying the nation is lying about its death rate.
(Excerpt) Read more at au.rollingstone.com ...
That’s from Sam Clements.
Known as Mark Twain.
He was quite the journalist besides being an author of repute.
President Trump doesn’t have dementia. This was just an off day and the interviewer wasn’t listening (the interviewer had his own agenda to make Trump look bad)
“More than three years after Rolling Stone published the most significant false accusation of rape since the Duke Lacrosse hoax...”
Thanks. That reminds me...
Did someone say race hoax?
Tawana Brawley? - white boys
Chrystal Mangum? - Duke Lacrosse team
Michael Brown? - Cops - hands up don’t shoot
Jussie Smollet? - Trump supporters
Bubba Wallace? - Nascar - f’n rednecks
Barack Obama? - Bitter Clingers
and on, and on, and on...
Amplify the lie.
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I really hope that’s the case, but this was a bad interview. I haven’t seen it posted anywhere else so hopefully nobody actually saw it.
Twitter is how a leader keeps in touch with the common people. he shouldn’t stop, or the Dims win
I’m a Trump and Musk fan. I think both should back off some. I dunno, they have to keep in contact but also they both say some bad stuff. Stuff they wouldn’t usually say on camera.
It’s all over the various news outlets. It’s best to read all sides of the story - know what the enemy is thinking
Elon Musk is sleep-walking. He’s probably still able to function on a technical level, but his EQ is blown. He needs to take valium and sleep for 3 days
I check DU quite often. FR and DU are my main political sources. I can’t last more than 2 posts on DU heh..
He did abuse ambien, and I kinda know the feeling.
You must have been watching a different interview. He did just fine, considering the super-combative stance of the 'interviewer'.
He was unusually stumbling over his words in this one. Painful really.
When repeatedly interrupted? Yeah, I can see that. Dementia, my ass. You want dementia, go see uncle Joe.
This is my worry too.
Excuse it all you want, as someone upthread said clearly joe is entirely out of it.
I note you predict Trump’s loss — BADLY, in your words, and further up call us an asylum echo-chamber.
Not sure I trust your take on Trump’s performance. He did fine under the combative, interrupting circumstances.
Troll/stalk somewhere else.
Nossir. :) I love to expose those people who disrespect the forum or exhibit excessive pessimism (in a Never-Trump fashion), intended to bring morale down.
If you are one of those people, I am on you like white on rice. :)
Keep it up and I will do a deep dive on your posts, exposing you. :) :) :)
Creeper. I’ve been around long enough to know your bizarre story. Go ahead, Mr Cancel Culture Karen.
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