Another sterling interview

Trump had a TV interview with Leslie Stahl.

During his interview with “60 Minutes” that was broadcast Sunday night, President Donald Trump regularly dodged questions and criticized the media’s dishonesty when interviewer Lesley Stahl pushed back on his non-answers.

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Stahl pressed Trump on what his immigration policy actually is multiple times before Trump bemoaned that the “60 Minutes” interviewer was treating him differently than she had treated Obama.

“I disagree, but I don’t want to have that fight with you,” she said.

“Leslie, it’s okay,” he said. “In the meantime, I’m president and you’re not.”

  TPM

[Trump] rejected the notion that his 2016 presidential campaign coordinated with the Kremlin to interfere in the contest against Hillary Clinton.

“Do you really think I’d call Russia to help me with an election? Give me a break,” Trump said. “They wouldn’t be able to help me at all. Call Russia. It’s so ridiculous.”

  Politico

How old is he? Seventy or seven?

Trump called climate change a hoax in November 2012 when he sent a tweet stating, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” He later said he was joking about the Chinese connection, but in years since has continued to call global warming a hoax.

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Trump [told Stahl] he doesn’t want to put the U.S. at a disadvantage in responding to climate change.

“I think something’s happening. Something’s changing and it’ll change back again,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a hoax. I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s manmade. I will say this: I don’t want to give trillions and trillions of dollars. I don’t want to lose millions and millions of jobs.”

  TPM

In a news conference in July 2016, Donald J. Trump made a direct appeal to Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and make them public.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said, referring to emails Mrs. Clinton had deleted from the private account she had used when she was secretary of state. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

  NYT

But did Leslie remind him?

I have no intention of actually listening to that interview.  I can't stand the sight of him or the sound of his voice. There's also a transcript, which I'm also not going to read.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

There isn't much to analyze about the interview that we didn't know going in. On the page, it reads like somebody cut an interview transcript into tiny strips and threw them up in front of an electric fan. On video, he looks like he's surprised that every word Stahl says to him is in actual English. This will not matter to the people who go to his rallies to get their freak on. And it will not be a surprise to anyone who doesn't.

He knows very little and claims to know everything. He can't get from a subject to a verb without turning an ankle, or from a capital letter to a period without inflating his self-esteem to the point where there is a genuine possibility that he will float off to Guam.

Well, I don't wanna give you an example. I'm not lookin' to-- in the meantime, nobody's been able to do what I've been able to do. Remember that. When you look at taxes, you look at regulations, you look at-- making deals with other countries. Nobody's been able to do anything like this. Actually, most people didn't even try because they knew they didn't have the ability to do it. But it's a very deceptive world. The other thing I've really learned is I never knew how dishonest the media was. I-- I-- and I really mean it. I'm not saying that as a sound bite.

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I think the economy's bringing people together. It was very polarized under President Obama, unbelievably polarized under President Obama. I can see the country uniting. I can see it.

  Charles P Pierce

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