Trump pulls out of interview after paper questions dubious claims about crime rate
Federal data shows the national crime rate has dropped under President Biden
Donald Trump backed out of an interview after a local paper asked him for data to back up his continued baseless claims that crime is on the rise under President Joe Biden.
The Detroit News reported that Trump’s campaign had agreed to an interview with the former president on Tuesday after a campaign speech. However, the campaign suddenly claimed Trump no longer had time for the interview after a reporter began probing them on crime data.
“The Trump campaign had initially agreed that Trump would participate in an interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday,” state politics reporter Craig Mauger wrote. “But after the newspaper began asking about the Michigan crime data before the event, a campaign aide said the presidential candidate no longer had time for an interview after the speech.”
Pulling out of a scheduled interview as part of a presidential campaign because the interviewer wants you to back up your claim sure is a weird thing to do.
i can't recall a single claim he's ever made that he "backed up" with anything other than "everybody says so" or something similar
Oh he couldn't possibly back up his lies. But I love that he's so terrified of the press asking him to do it that he's running away from them.
I can think of one, around COVID, when his "data" evoked this response
He had sharpy on a map to back up a claim once.
Yet another crime to throw on the pile.
It's illegal to misrepresent emergency weather information.
Drawing a sharpie to make people who were not in the forecasted path of a hurricane panic and seek shelter/evacuate should be a minimum fine/90 days in jail.
Obviously neither happened.
I've seen police show and threaten arrest up over someone using the emergency broadcast tones too loud at a park on a nice day. But (at the time) commander-in-queef gets free passes to do illegal shit at least once a week.
Totally the same legal system for ruling(owning)/non ruling(the poors) classes.
yea, because it's the people who make their entire living being experts on the weather who are wrong, not this blubbering moron who refuses to let his school transcripts be made public
Aren’t the questions usually arranged beforehand? You think that one would prepare in advance.
It was easier to cancel the interview than to provide a source for his claim.
Convicted felon Trump's kryptonite is a followup question.
I really wish this had been more of a thing in the lead up to the first election. Yes um source?
So your source is "trust me bro"?
Pretty much... Weird coward still is a coward
More like "being asked for proof of patently ridiculous and obviously false claims"
If this is all you have to do, then EVERY MEDIA OUTLET should do this. Not even hardball, just "ok can you show me some numbers?"
If that's all it takes to get this chicken shit weirdo to curl up in a ball, then fucking do it. He gets no airtime then other than his stupid rallies commemorating when he was pitted against an octogenarian.
So the key to keep him running away is to have the media actually ask him real questions? Let's keep asking and he'll never be on TV again other than fox.
But that would require media outlets to actually have editorial independence. Sadly those days are long gone.
D'ya Like Dags?
Dags?
Yeah, dags.
Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags. I like caravans more.
"Ma! Get me fookin' Adderall from oot the caravan. Jaysos Chroist. Any o you lads seen General Kelly? I got dags to foire!"
NGL Pikey Trump would have been amazing to watch.
I have too much respect for the Romani people to wish that upon them. Although he is absolutely a born swindler.
Holy fucking shit, I wish mainstream outlets would take notes. Any time Trump talks about crime or immigration or really anything, all you have to do is bring up facts. Quit fucking meeting Republicans in the middle with their lying and bigotry.
I liked this at the end of the article:
30,000 / (365*4) = 20.548
More than 20 per day, everyday… for 4 years. That’s more than 1 per hour if you exclude the hours he was sleeping. And factoring in all his time playing golf instead of working, he pretty much didn’t say anything that wasn’t a lie.
I watched the debate between Trump and Biden and could hardly believe that there were no fact checks at all from the moderators. Sure, it would have been good if Biden had pointed out more clearly that almost every statement Trump made was factually incorrect. But can you really just tell any tall tales in your presidential debates without even mentioning any facts? That seems absurd. Is that the norm for presidential debates in the US? Or is it just that Trump would not have participated if there were fact checks?
Do you think for a second that Trump would agree to a debate with fact checking?
No, but I thought the US public wouldn't let him get away with never engaging in a (factual) debate. That would make him look weak, because that's how democracy usually works. You know, arguments and counter-arguments - that sort of thing.
Trump lies at a rate where fact checkers can't keep up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
This sums it up nicely, and why I think he's like any bully: he picks his fights and only ones he can win.
I don't think so. It's just the same lies he repeats over and over again.
Repeating lies is essential to get the "poorly educated" to believe.
Someone called the Trump Trot.
It would have been best if there was fact checking as part of the debate, but as you speculated, there's no way Trump would agree to that. And, to be fair, it's probably a difficult thing to do live and accurately in timely manner.
However, other news agencies were doing fact checking during and following the debate.
Yes, it's certainly not easy to check facts live. But you can at least be well prepared, especially as the questions are asked by the journalists and they should also know the usual claims made by the candidates. I also don't think it's necessary to check every figure. I just mean that it makes sense to name obvious false statements as such - Trump has made enough of them, and most of them were anything but new. And yes, it is of course also true that there are fact-checks after the fact, but I think that this is often not noticed at all. The presidential debates are an event that many people watch, but unfortunately only a few inform themselves afterwards. That's why I think it's necessary to expose at least the grossest untruths immediately.
The media are owned by the oligarchs and those mostly back Trump. Simple as that.
I can't argue with that.
That is a very weird way to phrase "Old man throws temper tantrum and refuses to do previously agreed upon interview when called out for lying"
As far as I'm concerned, every media outlet that sugarcoats things, or misrepresent things, or otherwise skews the truth about what the MAGAts are up to are 100% in bed with Republicans, and are mouthpieces for the MAGAgenda
He's really banking on the crazies overthrowing the election isn't he?
Honestly yes. Not on the mob of MAGAs, but on states refusing to certify the results.
He is, and they're a lot closer to getting that done than you'd like to believe.
That seems like a really low estimate.
Agreed. There's only so much budget and time they can commit to fact checking this turd. There's real news to report on.
20 per day, certainly he had more than 20 interactions per day
Just so you know, trump is a known liar. Nothing he says can be taken at face value. Fact check everything.
What a coward
Big strong man can't handle being questioned.
Talking about crime scares him. He's very worried the orange uniform will clash with his "tan".
Dementia DonOLD the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies had to take his snowflake ass and find himself a safe space.
Wish Trump's dad pulled out!
That's pretty weird.
Soft.
"Sir, just to be clear, are you leaving because you have no data to support your claim? Making you a weird, lying sack of shit?"
@MicroWave
All media everywhere needs to just start a “be for real” campaign whenever they’re about to interview him, and perhaps he’ll just self-censor into oblivion…
cc: @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
Someone got me on that scared, scared little man gif? I haven't quite figured them out on Boost, not that I tried terribly hard
Lol shocking
shit they almost got him again
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