‘We’ve Got The Tapes’ – Trump Slams CNN, Sun Interview As “Fake News”
- ‘We’ve Got The Tapes’ – Trump Slams CNN, Sun Interview As “Fake News”
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
In one of the livelier presidential press conferences in recent memory, President Trump slammed the media after reporters refused to stop asking questions about his interview with the Sun (in which the president repeatedly criticized Prime Minister May’s “soft” approach to Brexit, warning it would kill the much anticipated US-UK bilateral trade deal).
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In one particularly memorable moment, Trump refused to take a question from a CNN reporter and instead declared that “CNN is fake news. I don’t take questions from CNN”. After arguing with the reporter for a minute, Trump said he’d turn to “a real network” and called on John Roberts, the White House reporter with Fox News.
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And in response to a particularly tough question from an NBC News reporter – whom he slammed as “dishonest” after she asked the president whether his actions had left him at a disadvantage ahead of his meeting with President Putin – Trump threatened to have Sarah Huckabee Sanders get the tapes from the Sun interview and play them back to prove that Trump didn’t say what the Sun – a Murdoch tabloid – reported.
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