{"id":44498,"date":"2020-03-21T14:17:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44498"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:12:43","slug":"trump-loves-him-some-whiffleball-questions-from-radical-right-wing-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44498","title":{"rendered":"Trump ‘Loves’ Him Some Whiffleball Questions From Radical Right-Wing ‘Reporter’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day, another White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. These daily events serve no purpose other than to provide Trump with a forum to repeat his lies and disinform the public. And there is no plausible reason for him to be there except to satisfy his craving for ego-strokes<\/a><\/strong> now that he can no longer hold his traveling cult rallies.<\/p>\n

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Saturday’s briefing was just a rehash of previous episodes where Trump leads a chorus of hallelujahs by sycophants paying tribute to his heroic awesomeness. In the course of his remarks Trump describes every alleged achievement as a never before seen breakthrough in human endeavors. Suffice to say that none of his barely coherent ramblings provide useful, factual information. The entirety of his presentation is an exercise in glassy-eyed happy-talk that painstakingly avoids the unsettling realities that the American people know all too well. After listening to Trump one might think that there was no pandemic crisis going on at all. Everything is fine and getting better.<\/p>\n

In order to promulgate that deceit, Trump made a point of calling on Jenn Pellegrino, a “reporter”<\/em> from the far-right, conspiracy factory, One America News Network (OANN). Her question, and Trump’s response, did nothing to advance the public’s well-being. physically or mentally. But it give Trump another opportunity to attack his perennial foes in the media (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Pellegrino:<\/strong> This morning the Washington Post ran a story suggesting that you delayed taking action on the virus in January and February. Dr. Fauci has indicated that your action in the Chinese travel ban helped America immensely. What do you say to the Washington Post?
\nTrump:<\/strong> I love whoever you’re with. Cuz I think that’s such a nice question. I think the Washington Post covers us very inaccurately, covers me very inaccurately. I saw the story. I think it’s a disgrace. But it’s the Washington Post and I guess we have to live with it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story that they are obliquely referencing is one wherein the Post revealed that U.S. intelligence had warned him<\/a><\/strong> as early as January about the coronavirus and it’s potential risks, but that he disregarded the warnings. The Post reported that even though Trump’s advisers told him that “the system was blinking red […] they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So without putting the question into context, Trump complimented the Trump-fluffing reporter and her flagrantly biased network. Then went on to insult the Post without ever citing anything in their story that was inaccurate. Trump later noted that China had ejected the Post from the country, which he seems to think bolsters his position. Is that because he thinks China is so well regarded as a beacon of press freedom? And let’s not forget that Trump ejected the Post<\/a><\/strong> from the White House and other government offices.<\/p>\n

Trump’s response to this question is especially notable considering how different it was from his response to a question he received the day before<\/a><\/strong>. Peter Alexander of NBC asked Trump “What do you say to Americans who are watching right now who are scared?”<\/em> Whereupon, Trump jumped on him like a rabid jackal, calling Alexander a “terrible reporter”<\/em> and the question “nasty.”<\/em> But Pellegrino’s question asking “What do you say to the Washington Post,”<\/em> drew Trump’s “love”<\/em> for “such a nice question.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The lesson here is that reporters are safer asking Trump what he has to say to news organizations that everyone knows he hates, than they are asking what he has to say to the American people. That’s because he cares more about attacking those who dare to tell the truth about him, than he does about the citizens of this country, a majority of whom voted against him. And it’s his indifference – and even hostility – to the people he is supposed to be serving, that has resulted in the disastrous way he has bungled the nation’s response to the worst pandemic in generations.<\/p>\n

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n