Hmmm...
That almost makes me suspicious...
George Stephanopoulus, Hillary Clinton Campaign Adviser, never does anything like that without considering and promoting his agenda... AND his agenda is to keep the Clinton’s in power.
Why would he go easy on Trump? Unless he thinks Trump helps Hillary....
Did you watch the interview? If not, try to find YouTube video.
Stephy wasn’t easy on him. He tried to pin Trump to the floor.
Stephy’s mistake was that the more questions he asked Trump about his Megyn quotes (trying to get him to apologize), the more time Trump had to explain his full thought processes at the moment he originally made that comment -— and I actually believe him.
PS: This part of the exchange (Stephy’s opening salvo) is too difficult to transcribe. Must listen for yourself & make your own judgements-—as well as the biased lead-up intro into to the Trump interview.
Then Stephy went on about his relationship with women. “I do want to get on about your relationship with women...” quoting one of Trump’s books: “Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very needy and feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. REAL KILLERS, what did you mean by that?.
TRUMP: I say that with great respect...they are amazing executives. If you say that about a man, it is a great honor,...it is so sad [PC].. and if you say that about a woman, it is also a great honor....
Stephy: ...There is this impression that you have had a history of misogynist statements, that you are anti-women...Isn’t this a problem with you?”
TRUMP: I don’t think so at all, George. In the meantime, I am doing very well in the polls with women... I employ thousands of women... and at top levels.
LOL.
Stephy was the one pinned to the floor.
Then Stephy slides in single-payer comment, but instead of letting him answer, he moves to a Trump book quote from 1999-—1999! about a idea to take down the debt...a ONE-TIME wealth tax of 14.25% of people with a net worth of over $10 mil. In the book, Trump said it would pay off in its entirety our debt of $5.7 trillion.
Stephy: You now say you are against that.
[ROFLOL; Stephy: It’s 2015, and Obama, Dems, and Rinos could care less that the debt is $18 tril and will likely be $20 tril by the time Obama is done.]
What Trump said was: “I was willing to do it...that was a long yime ago, but it was a suggestion. I was willing to do it to see the national debt paid off....Today we are soon going to be over 20 tril.”
Not getting anywhere with that, Stephy said: “You were for it then...; you were for single-payer then, you are not for it now. [notice how slickly Stephy went back to his single-payer comment], How can conservatives trust that you are not going to change again?”
TRUMP: R Reagan was a Dem; in fact he was on the liberal side of Dem. He changed and he did a very good job, and I worked with him and he liked me a lot and I liked him a lot...I have evolved and I have evolved very strongly... I am a conservative and I have tremendous support, but I also have support among Dems.
Stephy: And you have supported Dems more recently in 2006...blah, blah, blah....
So how can conservatives trust you when you gave so much money to their opponents?”
TRUMP:....I was a businessman... I supported everybody...I understand the system. Look at Jeb Bush. He was raised $100 mil more...these are people who want something & they are going to get something. With me, I don’t want anybody’s money...I can straighten out the country without having people..special interests come and say, no, no, no, you can’t do that...”
Stephy ends interview.
He did everything BUT go easy on Trump. Stephy couldn’t get any traction, and Trump pinned him to the floor.
In this match, Stephy didn’t even get a single point.
This was Trump’s best interview of the day. I left much out but hit all the highlights. It is well worth the time to listen to the exchange if you have time.
Pinging a few others since I decided to do a full recap of this interview for Babylon.
Great thread today.
Kabar had an excellent post on criminal illegals in #259-— a topic I don’t think Trump was questioned on today.