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Interview questions too critical - Trump reacts rigorously

2022-01-14T11:48:05.024Z


Interview questions too critical - Trump reacts rigorously Created: 01/14/2022, 12:35 p.m By: Felix Durach Former US President Donald Trump simply hung up on the subject of election fraud in a telephone interview. © SAUL LOEB / AFP Donald Trump's split relationship with the media was also evident on Tuesday when the former US President simply hung up in a telephone interview. WASHINGTON DC -


Interview questions too critical - Trump reacts rigorously

Created: 01/14/2022, 12:35 p.m

By: Felix Durach

Former US President Donald Trump simply hung up on the subject of election fraud in a telephone interview.

© SAUL LOEB / AFP

Donald Trump's split relationship with the media was also evident on Tuesday when the former US President simply hung up in a telephone interview.

WASHINGTON DC - Former US President Donald Trump appears to be positioning himself to run as the Republican nominee for a second term in the White House in the upcoming 2024 US presidential election.

More than a year after the 2020 election, the 75-year-old is still struggling with his defeat by the Democrat Joe Biden, whom Trump had often defamed as a bad candidate and failure during the election campaign.

Donald Trump: Ex-president continues to cling to voter fraud narrative

This is another reason why Trump wants to prove himself again in the upcoming US presidential election and get Biden out of the Oval Office after just one term. The Republican's strategy began on November 3, 2020, the day of the election, when Trump questioned the official election results and called for counts to be stopped in various states. Even in 2022, the former US President is sticking to the narrative that the election victory was stolen from him. A claim that is still being propagated by various conservative and Trump-related media, where the 75-year-old is also a welcome interview guest.

However, it is all the more remarkable when Trump accepts an interview request from a medium that is much more critical of the ex-president.

The last time this happened was on Tuesday when the former US President gave a telephone interview to the independent radio station npr.

The 75-year-old was also asked by moderator Steve Innskeep about the narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

The journalist's statements apparently made Donald Trump so angry that he broke off the interview without further ado.

Trump speaks in a radio interview about "corrupt elections" - moderator accuses him of making false statements

However, a transcript of the interview was released on the radio station's website, which was recorded in advance of the show. After Innskeep had first asked Trump about the current corona situation, he finally steered the conversation to the past election. The moderator confronted Trump with the statements made by Republican Senator Mike Rounds, who recently spoke out against Trump and asked him to accept the election results. Inskeep asked Trump if he saw it as a downside that Republicans were still talking about the 2020 election instead of looking ahead.

"I think it's an advantage, because otherwise they'll do it again in 2022 and 2024," was the response from the ex-president, who again described the lost election as "corrupt".

In the course of the interview, Trump then made the claim that there were more votes than voters in the state of Pennsylvania.

A statement that Inskeep immediately revealed to be false.

The moderator even accused the 75-year-old of deliberately spreading this false statement among his voters, even though official reports would prove the opposite.

Because of critical questions: Trump simply hangs up on the phone interview – “He’s gone.

OK"

But Trump then stubbornly continued to spread his narrative and hardly let the moderator have a say.

A particular thorn in the side of the ex-president was his successor.

“How could Biden not even get 20 people to an event?

How could it be that when he spoke somewhere, no one came and suddenly he got 80 million votes?

Nobody believes that, Steve," Trump said.

Innskeep countered that many voters may have voted against Donald Trump rather than for Joe Biden.

A statement that probably made the camel overflow.

Campaigning below the belt: Donald Trump and Joe Biden in their TV duel in the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election. © Jim WATSON / AFP

Trump then ignored several attempts by the moderator to steer the interview to another topic and finally simply hung up with the words "Thanks Steve, I appreciate that".

In the last entry of the interview transcript, Innskeep merely states with surprise: "I have one more question (...)... He's gone.

OK."

It's not the first time that the 75-year-old has ended an interview early because he didn't like the critical questions.

During his time as US President, Trump regularly refused questions from certain newspapers or news portals, which he described as “fake news”.

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Source: merkur

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