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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump bristled at questions about Whitmer in '60 Minutes' interview before walking out
(Detroit Free Press) LANSING President Donald Trump bristled at questions related to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during an interview Tuesday with CBS's "60 Minutes," minutes before abruptly halting the interview, a recording Trump released on Facebook shows.
After leaving the interview, Trump criticized Lesley Stahl, the veteran CBS reporter who was questioning him, on Twitter.
The interview is scheduled to air Sunday. But late Thursday morning, Trump posted a nearly 38-minute video in Facebook that he says shows his entire interview with Stahl. Trump had earlier tweeted about his plans to release the video, apparently concerned about how CBS would edit the interview.
Stahl asks Trump several questions about Whitmer, who was the planned target of an alleged kidnapping plot recently foiled by federal and state officials.
The president repeats several inaccurate statements about the governor and state. For example, he says the state remains under a lockdown and the governor shut down places of worship, which Whitmer said were exempt from enforcement of her executive orders. Michigan's stay-at-home order was lifted June 1. ............(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/22/whitmer-trump-interview-60-minutes/3728176001/
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Trump bristled at questions about Whitmer in '60 Minutes' interview before walking out (Original Post)
marmar
Oct 2020
OP
catbyte
(34,174 posts)1. Mere words cannot properly convey the level of contempt I feel for that thing.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)2. I'm beginning to think if the man ever stopped lying...
His head would fall off or he would burst into flames.
Something drastic would happen.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)3. "Several inaccurate statements." Fuck that. Call them LIES
He LIED
He is a LIAR
"Several inaccurate statements." What horseshit.
Still. Years on in.
They won't just write that he LIED.
What the actual fuck.
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)4. Joe will go there tonight as well
I hope.