As of: March 18, 2024, 1:05 p.m
By: Christian Stör
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Donald Trump gives a speech during a rally in Vandalia, Ohio on March 16, 2024.
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Donald Trump appears thoughtful on Fox News.
His answers remain confusing.
First mystery: Putin's role in Navalny's death.
Washington, DC – Donald Trump was actually in his element.
He has always scored well
with interviews on
Fox News .
He was planning to do that again now.
Around seven and a half months before the US election in November, the conversation seemed to be the ideal opportunity to get in the mood for yourself.
This time, however, not everything went as planned.
His answers sometimes seemed too strange and awkward.
Donald Trump comments on Putin and Navalny in Fox News interview
On the one hand, there were his statements about Vladimir Putin and Alexei Navalny.
When moderator Howard Kurtz asked whether he held the Russian president responsible for the Kremlin critic's death, Trump only managed a somewhat vague answer: “I don't know, but maybe.
Possibly.
I could say probably.
I don't know." Navalny was still a young man, statistically speaking he could have lived another 40 years.
“So something unusual happened.”
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny died in a prison camp in Siberia in mid-February.
The circumstances of his death are still unclear to this day.
According to authorities in Russia, he collapsed while walking around the prison yard.
His widow Yulia Navalnaya believes that her husband was murdered in the camp.
US President Joe Biden has also blamed Putin for Navalny's death.
Former President Donald Trump has not yet wanted to commit.
When Kurtz pressed him and said that nothing happens in Russia without Putin's approval, Trump again evaded a clear answer: “I don't know.
This cannot be said with certainty.
It definitely looks like something very bad has happened, doesn't it?” That settled the issue.
“Vermin” and “poisoned blood”: Trump defends his rhetoric on migration
Moderator Kurtz did not treat Trump with kid gloves in the interview.
Kurz once turned to the Republican and wanted to know why he used words like 'vermin' and 'blood poisoning' when discussing migration?
The press immediately pointed out that this was the kind of language Hitler and Mussolini had used.
Trump defended himself by saying he was unaware of this rhetoric.
Whether Trump actually had no idea about the language of the 1930s remains to be seen.
In any case, he now knows the objections.
But they don't stop him from continuing to talk about migration in this way.
He also made it clear why he was doing this: “Because our country is being poisoned.” Then he spoke, among other things, of long-term murderers who “will all be released in our country.”
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When it comes to abortion, Trump sees the Democrats as the “radicals”
In the interview, Trump also spoke out in favor of a nationwide ban on abortion.
However, he did not say from which week of pregnancy the ban should apply and what exceptions he is planning.
Trump avoided a clear position, saying only that he would make a proposal “soon.”
At the same time, Trump claimed that the Democrats were the “radicals” on this issue who supported “abortions in the seventh, eighth and ninth months” or even “after the birth of the child”.
Kurtz then corrected that no MP supports the killing of a newborn and that abortions of pregnancies in the third trimester are very rare.
These are absolutely exceptional cases where there is a medical indication.
Trump reiterates his claims of election fraud
At one point, Kurtz wanted to know from Trump what fundamental thing people in the country weren't understanding about his campaign.
Trump took the opportunity to once again talk about his favorite topic: the alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“So, you know, in the end we won,” Trump said of his victory in 2016. “In 2020, we did a lot better.” He got millions and millions more votes then than four years earlier.
“The election was manipulated.” Trump is actually right in his claim that he got more votes in 2020 than in 2016. However, he ignores the fact that Joe Biden was able to improve Hillary Clinton’s result much more significantly.
Donald Trump |
Clinton/Biden |
|---|---|
62,984,828 votes (2016) |
65,853,514 votes (2016) |
74,223,975 votes (2020) |
81,283,501 votes (2020) |
Trump then offered the broadcaster to edit out his answer.
Trump was apparently alluding to the fact that the TV station had agreed to pay voting machine manufacturer Dominion $787.5 million in damages.
Dominion had sued because Fox News had broadcast reports about alleged manipulation of voting computers.
Kurtz interjected that voter fraud had not been proven in court.
“Well, the election was rigged,” Trump insisted.
“It was completely crazy.” It is not expected that Trump will change his rhetoric if he loses in November.
(cs)