Posted on 09/13/2020 6:41:42 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
CNN’s Jake Tapper abruptly ended an interview with White House trade adviser Peter Navarro following a tense exchange about President Trump’s decision to initially downplay the threat of the coronavirus.
Tapper asked Navarro to discuss a Feb. 7 recording with journalist Bob Woodward in which Trump said the virus is five times deadlier than the flu.
In the weeks following, Trump continued to hold large rallies despite knowing the virus was airborne and deadly. On Feb. 26, he told reporters that the flu was more dangerous than the coronavirus.
“He was misleading the public. Why?” Tapper asked Navarro on Sunday.
Navarro, failing to directly answer the question, laid out the White House’s behind-the-scenes strategy for addressing the virus in early February and praised Trump’s response. Public health experts, however, have largely attributed the United States’ record number of coronavirus cases to the Trump administration’s mishandling of the outbreak.
“You’re not answering my question, Peter,” Tapper interrupted.
The exchange devolved into incessant crosstalk with Navarro accusing Tapper of repeatedly interrupting him and Tapper accusing Navarro of refusing to answer his question:
TAPPER: Why wasn’t the president straightforward with the American people?
NAVARRO: He was straightforward.
TAPPER: No, he wasn’t. ... Just answer the question. It’s a very basic question. ... He was not honest with the American people. You’re not answering the question
NAVARRO: You’re wrong. You’re not honest with the American people. CNN is not honest with the American people. CNN -- you wanna go there?
TAPPER: I said you’re not answering the question. Here’s the thing. Thank you, Peter Navarro. We just played tape, you didn’t answer the question.
NAVARRO: You can’t say that. I answered the question repeatedly. You just didn’t like the answer.
As Navarro continued to defend his remarks, Tapper pulled the plug on the interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
[[[Public health experts, however, have largely attributed the United States’ record number of coronavirus cases to the Trump administration’s mishandling of the outbreak.]]]
This is called manufacturing a narrative.
Childish.
Fake Fapper and his Resting Jake Face...
Dems are trying to make this stick.
Jake the pansy snake.
tell me why you granted an interview to CNN
TAPPER: Why wasn’t the president straightforward with the American people?
Jake, Are you working for the Kremlin again??
If President Dr. Trump was misleading the public, so was Bob Woodward.
So, suck it, Jake Tapper.
Why did Bob Woodward bogart this information until 2 months before the election? Oh. Right. Moolah.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Same stunt Tapper pulled in his interview with Trump in 2016 where he tried to pretend that Trump failed to disavow David Duke. If Jake Tapper is going to devote free airtime to the Biden campaign, CNN should be required to report his salary to the FEC.
Fake Tapper
Fake and his “Resting Jake Face”...
Compromised Jake just following orders
CNN can’t handle the truth.
Hey, Jake....why are you interring in elections???
I would’ve asked him about that.
Skiing is probably 5 times deadlier than jogging.
Jake, you ignorant slut.
Ask Sonny Bono.
Good for Navarro, he didn’t take the bait.
Trump never should have spoken with Woodward who is a professional liar. All his books sell lies from Casey to Belushi to W Bush, that’s how he makes money. Now it’s just another 3-day fire Trump has to put out when he could be talking about Biden, the communist BLM, the violence the unbelievable pedophilia coming out of the Democrat Party in California. He should run against pedofilia, and that California is passing laws for it and the obamas and Susan Rice are promoting it on their Netflix careers. Newsom is signing pedophilia into law.
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