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submitted 3 months ago by solsangraal@lemmy.zip to c/politics@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23108955

"I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking... we couldn't compromise on that."

As [NABJ president Ken] Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago

Good for them for outing his bullshit, though him and his "Team" (Cheung) will just lie about it anyway. They called him out for lying, and that's what's important.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

When he got there, all of a sudden they were black. He hadn't noticed they were black before

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

They became black just for the interview.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

It's a small thing, but when you watch it he stopped himself from saying "went black" and instead said "turned black". They're both pretty bad, but I just think it's funny that in his mind "turned black" was the way to say it.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I suspect the guy is so old, racist, and dementia riddled that he can't tell Nikki Haley and Kamala Harris apart. That would somewhat explain the "turned black" comment.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

110% weirdo words, either way.

"You're turning black just to hurt me!"

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Weird that he didn't notice.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

Refuses to go if fact checked. Provides a bullshit excuse for not going, gets immediately fact checked about it.

Suck it, Damn Old Trump

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's so fucking annoying that the propagandists have already brainwashed his base into believing that fact checking is just "media lying" so they actively want Trump to refuse any fact checking...

We see it for the shit it is, and they like it. It doesn't hurt him at all.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Kinda off topic, but I appreciate how nice and clean Axios is without an adblocker, and how concise and bait free the articles (mostly) are.

I don't know how they stay sane and still make money, when the rest of the internet is worse than the Idiocracy TV.

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I mean, we all know that virtually everything that comes out of Trump's mouth is 100% grade-A bullshit.

But when he says that he is unwilling to participate if he's going to be fact-checked means that he knows that everything is saying is a lie. He just admitted to it. Nobody who believes that they're telling the truth is afraid of being fact-checked, especially not to that degree.

He literally was telling the NABJ that he's not going to participate if he's not allowed to lie.

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's not quite the self-report that you think it is. Refusing to accept fact checking is a rational decision in the hypothetical framework that the participant is being honest and the checker is unreliable or dishonest.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I doubt he’s capable of such a complex thought

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Saying 'nu-uh... you are....' is right up his alley.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Sure, but I was referring to how I doubt he’s capable of thinking of others beyond himself.

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

"I'm right. Everybody who disagrees with me is wrong. 'fact checkers' disagree with me, so they must be lying." Is well within the person woman man camera TV brain.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

I can find some comfort that at least inviting both candidates was the norm and the invite extended to Trump wasn't a special one.

However, if anyone there was expecting anything other than the Trump campaign causing problems and blaming the hosts for it, I don't know what to say to them.

[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

He should’ve just taken the L and 2hrs of news saying he refused to go on due to fact checking, but here we are lol

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Huh. "Audio issues" must mean " I said things and they didn't instantly accept them as facts".

What a way that live.

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

What's worse is that (a) She's a FOX employee, (b) she repeatedly kowtowed to Trump throughout the interview, and (c) she was feeding him softball questions. And he still attacked her, blaming her for the "equipment issues" that nobody else was experiencing. And he kept doing it even after she went along with him about those "equipment issues".

It's like stockholm syndrome with some of these people. He attacks them, they bend the knee, and he attacks them more. And she went on FOX and defended him for it afterwards.

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