Scoop: Trump stalled Black journalists interview over fact-checking

[demmiblue]

Source: Axios

Moments before former President Trump took the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday, the organization's president was called back to address an issue.

Why it matters: Trump did not want to be fact-checked live and was refusing to go on stage, NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios.

"[Trump's team] said, 'Well, can you not fact check? He's not going to take the stage if you fact-check,'" Lemon said.

The intrigue: The Q&A with the GOP presidential nominee was delayed more than an hour before he eventually joined a panel of Black journalists, including ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/08/02/trump-nabj-fact-checking-black-journalists

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[underpants]

1. He said 1 hour. Deliberately stalled 30 minutes. Pulled off the stage after 34 minutes.

[Think. Again.]

5. AND he blamed the delay on...

...the equipment he said the host was responsible for (somehow).

[underpants]

8. The host is responsible for it but remember he's beefed at the setup at his own cheap ass rallies

Twice in a row. One was the podium. I think the other was the teleprompter or sound.

[Think. Again.]

11. No, the ABC journalist who was hosting the interview...

...is not responsible for the equipment.

Not one but two unions would raise hell if she were.

[underpants]

12. Okay. As part of the host organization is what I meant

[Think. Again.]

13. You can see on the interview that...

trump directly blames the ABC journalist hosting the interview personally for the equipment.

[happy feet]

23. No

The setup was contracted operationally to the Hilton hotel's A/V vendor provided.

NABJ works with the provided vendor but was not responsible for any inoperation of the AV.

[mahina]

35. You can both be right.

Once again Trump just flat out lied and assumed nobody would know.

No wonder he was so pissy!

This alone could cost him the election.

[Attilatheblond]

18. And pretended he couldn't hear one member of the panel, complaining about their tech

When he was just refusing to answer her clearly spoken question.

He NEVER takes responsibility for ANYTHING, and always changes subject rather than answer fair questions. Avoids by attacking.

[krkaufman]

20. Alternate reality

Would have been lovely if that “journalist” had stood up and walked over to him and raised her voice to repeat the question, as one might do for an elderly relative with hearing loss. Closing with, “did you hear that, Grandpa?” would have been a bonus.

[happy feet]

24. Yup and stalls for time

hence asking what DEI meant twice

[Attilatheblond]

37. Sometimes, not just a stall, but to interrupt and change the subject

usually with an attack on the person asking the question.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Lemon was warned and his co-Chair resigned after she said that she wasn't consulted about the decision

As my mother would often say - "A hard head makes a soft behind".

[krkaufman]

21. What were they expecting?

How could so-called “journalists” be surprised by any of this? I had to shake my head at the panelist who expressed surprise at Trump directly attacking those asking him questions. Have they all just awakened from 8-year comas?

[BumRushDaShow]

26. I think the bulk of them knew

but you will always have some who probably thought that they could "control the narrative".

Many of us have seen who among that group, are part of the White House correspondents and/or were assigned to a pool that attended any briefings/press conferences (whatever ones they had before completely shutting them down during the latter parts of his time in office) and/or who followed his previous 2 campaigns... and they know better (but obviously weren't listened to).

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Not a scoop. I read that the evening of NABJ.

[gab13by13]

4. Everything TSF does must be staged, scripted.

[tetedur]

7. Yes I wonder if that is the deal for all his "interviews"

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and that would be why no one pushes back when he spouts his stupid lies.

[krkaufman]

22. Not usually an issue

I doubt it’s much of an issue, usually, since he only seems to allow interviews with Fox News and even nuttier outlets.

[Jirel]

6. Spread this EVERYWHERE.

This makes his racism and misogyny at NABJ so much worse.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. YOU CAN'T TELL THEM I'M LYING! IT'S ALL I KNOW HOW TO DO!

traitortrump minus lying equals bad hair

[House of Roberts]

10. MAGAts can't tolerate accountability.

Being held responsible for their lies scares them too much.

[IronLionZion]

14. Facts have a well known liberal bias

that's why Republicans use alternative facts that should never be checked.

[KS Toronado]

15. If he does debate Kamala, lie to him...NO FACT CHECKING

I mean damn he lies all the time and demands to get by with it. Why can't we word agreements with
very fine small print?

[Farmer-Rick]

16. It's amazing how most journalist agree

To selling out the truth. Is that even considered journalism without the facts?

So, it looks like no one agreed to letting pedo Trump lie. (God how I wished they would have asked him about palling around with Epstein.)

He just went on and lied anyway. But at least they were ready to fact check him. He didn't stay long enough to be held to account.

[AZ8theist]

34. If anyone ever asked him about Epstein and child rape....

....he would just whine "That's a very nasty question and you're a nasty person!!"

That's his MO. Simply a vile, imbecilic, pathological lying asshole.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. Get him on the stage and then fact check him anyway.

He'll throw a tantrum and probably stomp off the stage (which his handlers did anyway, halfway through the event). Then he'll whine about "fake news."

What I learned in Journalism 101: "If they don't want you to report it, it's news. If they do want you to write about it, it's propaganda."

[relayerbob]

19. This was all reported in real time

Axios is trying to play the scoop card? Anything for some clicks, I suppose.

[FakeNoose]

25. This just demonstrates that every lie out of Chump's mouth is intentional

When someone "misspeaks" and then later corrects himself, well I guess we can say it wasn't an intentional lie. It was just an error. But with Chump we know it's all intentional, and this is the proof.

He doesn't want to be called a liar to his face, during the interview. No that would be too embarrassing. He wants to insult and berate these Black female journalists to THEIR faces and not get called out.

Why do journalists of any color accept HIS rules? I don't get it, they're allowing Chump to use them and project his bulls**t out to their audiences. And they can't even call out his constant lies. American journalists please STOP giving Chump the free TV time. He has shown time and again that he doesn't deserve it.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Assertion of perceived privilege

We have no antidote

[Jrose]

28. DJt wanted this event to be his unfiltered lie tsunami, like the last 'debate'

[sinkingfeeling]

29. Not a 'SCOOP' by Axios. It was reported 2 days ago....

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/nyt-reports-trump-nabj-interview-delayed-over-his-fury-at-fact-checking-not-audio-issues-as-he-claimed/

NYT Reports Trump NABJ Interview Delayed Over His Fury at Fact-Checking, Not Audio Issues as He Claimed

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. TFG can not deal with facts and fact-checkers

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. TFG refused to take the stage until the conference committee agreed to not fact check him live.

Link to tweet

[Zoomie1986]

32. Hate to say it

But this is a complete fail on the part of NABJ.

Why didn't someone start recording or turning on some mics to go live with that wrangling about no fact-checking?

And why didn't they respond with, 'We gain nothing from not fact-checking. It's what good journalists do. If he's so against honest questioning that he refuses to go onstage, then we will go out there and announce that he's refused to appear, because he doesn't want to tell the truth. So take your scared little boy and run away like the cowards you are, while we go do our jobs with our heads held high.'

*Either* tactic would have resulted in a huge story.

[Zoomie1986]

33. Oh--And I'm sick of the modern media

Letting that idiot control all of the narrative because they care more about future access than about reporting facts.

The US media is so very stupid that they refuse to grasp that they *do not need him nearly as much as he needs them.* Without the media, he's just another two-bit schmuck languishing in obscurity or jail. The media can and does survive without him. They can make him or break him, but he can't do that to them unless they continue to be an accessory to his grab for power. Then they'll learn that someone can break them, in ways they don't even want to think about.

They need to wake up and start doing their jobs. It's been at least 40 years since they've had a clue what it is.

[ShazzieB]

36. Recording that wrangling would have been a nice idea..

...but calling that a complete fail for NABJ seems a bit much to me. Sure, we would all love to have been able to hear a recording of what he was saying backstage, but the interview itself was a complete fail for Trump. He made an absolute ass of himself and has been skewered over it, repeatedly.

Overall, I think the event was a win for NABJ.

[RussBLib]

38. Those 3 women journalists should speak up

...maybe as a group, to make it clear the fact-checking issue is why he started late, not some made-up bs about equipment failure.

Fact-check, indeed.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[D23MIURG23]

39. Stupid fuck didn't even answer their questions.

I don't know even know why it mattered to him. All he ever does is shit on people and lie through his teeth. Anyone w half a brain knows he lies every time he opens his mouth.

[Martin Eden]

40. Not wanting to be fact-checked is perfectly understandable, especially...

...for a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR.