(Note the above is a fake.... not a real tweet. But who knows.... on August 8th it may become a real tweet.)
Speaking of Trump's demand for no fact checking: Now We Know Why That Disastrous Trump Event Started So Late https://newrepublic.com/post/184510/trump-disastrous-nabj-event-late-fact-checking Donald Trump’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists started more than an hour late. Donald Trump almost didn’t take the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists conference earlier this week because he was terrified of being fact-checked. The former president appeared on stage Wednesday more than an hour late to take part in a conversation moderated by ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor’s political reporter Kadia Goba. Trump quickly complained about the delayed start, saying it had taken half an hour for the NABJ to get their sound equipment to work. Apparently, he was trying to get ahead of something else. While there were some audio problems, “the bigger problem was his threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on. He did not want to be fact-checked, but we could not let him on the stage without fact-checking,” NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios in a story published Friday. The NABJ had arranged for Trump’s interview to be simultaneously fact-checked online in collaboration with Politifact. At one point, Trump’s team requested that the NABJ not post fact-checking to its social media accounts, or allow the moderator to discuss the fact-checking on stage, according to Lemon. “Our whole team stood our ground,” Lemon told Axios. At one point, things got desperate. “I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking.... [W]e couldn’t compromise on that,” Lemon said. But as Lemon drafted his statement, Trump finally walked on stage, Lemon said. Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told Axios a different story. He said that Trump’s team waited “for close to 40 minutes while audio/technical issues were fixed by NABJ.” Trump used his contentious appearance to launch racist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, including questioning her race as the crowd booed him. Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, gushed to NOTUS Thursday, lauding Trump for being so brave about the whole event. “He actually goes into hostile audiences, he answers tough questions, he pushes back against them, but he actually answers them, and how nice it is to have an American leader who’s not afraid to go into hostile places and actually answer some tough questions,” Vance said. However, it’s clear Trump is distinctly unwilling to go into hostile audiences, and was left scrambling for a way to back out when he knew his words would be held to account. His team ended up cutting off the event, which was scheduled to last an hour, after just 34 minutes. If his seething response to ABC’s Scott is any indication, Trump can’t take a tough question at all.
Trump has always hated being fact-checked during interviews or debates. He's very open about it too. Yet, I was surprised he even agreed to do that interview with NABJ because they told him he would be fact-checked. I think he did it because he thought he could bullshit and intimidate those women and their audiences into not speaking up when he spun one of his LIES instead of just answering the questions honestly without intentionally trying to look like he's a victim again especially when he's talking to women. Further, Trump believed his campaign team that minorities in Urban communities would vote for him because they had forgotten about his treatment of women of color in business. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...racist-comments-maga-republicans/74626968007/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nabj-kamala-harris_n_66ac1174e4b050952a702026 Just as importantly, Trump's behavior with the NABJ will be similar to his behavior in a debate with Harris because even if they agree the moderators will not do fact-checking. In contrast, Harris will do her own fact-check of Trump's lies. It was something Biden didn't do in the first debate as if Biden was in shock. It was inevitable. It was a woman who successfully sued Trump for millions of dollars when he defamed her. It was another woman who helped the prosecution in getting Trump convicted of 34x felonies. It's women who are now fact-checking his lies in real-time in front of a TV audience. It will be a woman who is a former prosecutor that he'll be in a debate for the U.S. Presidency of the United States of America... She's now stalking Trump as if he's a wounded animal in which some in his inner circle from 2016 - 2020 are waiting for a chance to testify against Trump after taking immunity deals in the remaining criminal trials. Simply, Harris is waiting to do more than just fact-check him...she wants to expose him to the Independents out there that are still undecided. It's something that Biden was not up to the task of doing whereas those women of the NABJ were able to do in an interview with a convicted felon trying to slither back into the White House like a prowler. Trump is fucked wrbtrader