Former president Donald Trump answers questions related to Putin, illegal immigration and his use of 'over the top' language in sit-down interview with FOX's Howard Kurtz.
I came armed with a fistful of blue cards, and still didn’t get to half the questions, but Donald Trump made a whole lot of news in our Mar-a-Lago interview. What’s revealing is how he chose to answer the most sensitive questions, or to deflect them, and how various media outlets chose to frame them. Some, like the New York Times, ABC and the Hill, played it straight.
Perhaps,' Trump said. 'I mean, possibly, I could say probably. I don't know. He's a young man, so statistically he'd be alive for a long time…Certainly that would look like something very bad happened.' Keep in mind that Trump has never even mentioned Putin in the same paragraph as Navalny, and now he’s saying 'probably' responsible. Of course, Trump can’t prove it, and neither can I.
guess you could say that – and I’m not letting him off the hook – but the more telling part of his answer came next. I asked the 45th president whether he uses 'over the top' and 'inflammatory' language to drive the media debate, meaning a focus on his words gets news outlets spending days on his turf, on his preferred issue, in the arguments over whether he went too far. And Trump didn’t deny it, saying he wouldn’t limit himself to 'politically correct' verbiage.
Trump was going on about Chinese cars and their impact on the American auto industry. Then he said if he wasn’t elected there would be a bloodbath – in terms of the impact on jobs. Then he went right back to talking about electric vehicles and industry competition. Now some pundits said the mere use of the word bloodbath was like a bat signal, telling his supporters to get ready for violence. After all, he was so Machiavellian that he added, 'That’s going to be the least of it.
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