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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,766 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:41 PM Aug 2020

Jonathan Swan Names The Most 'Stunning' Moment Of His Wild Trump Interview

Donald Trump’s HBO interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios contained a number of jaw-dropping moments.

Trump bluntly dismissed the late Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, while offering well-wishes for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, who is in custody and facing her own charges.

But Swan said on MSNBC on Tuesday that the moment that stood out to him was the wild back-and-forth they had on the coronavirus pandemic.

“He is not confronting reality when it comes to the virus,” Swan said. “And he is reaching for data points that are good for publicity or sound good, but are not actually the best metrics for revealing what’s going on in this country.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/jonathan-swan-stunning-trump-moment-062023031.html

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Jonathan Swan Names The Most 'Stunning' Moment Of His Wild Trump Interview (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
That's one way to say it.. ".. he's not confronting reality.." bc Cha Aug 2020 #1
Trump's a lying POS. Is that so hard to say? sop Aug 2020 #2
The Traitor to America should be on trial for genocide.. Cha Aug 2020 #3
His WH enablers also feed him Ilsa Aug 2020 #5
NBC News/Survey Monkey poll: House of Roberts Aug 2020 #4
I'd like to think the other 11% Harker Aug 2020 #11
Swan did a good job of not letting Trump frame the discussion gratuitous Aug 2020 #6
Absolutely! I hope the interview will also help demonstrate how to handle the debates. diva77 Aug 2020 #9
Indeed! MyOwnPeace Aug 2020 #12
NOT "stunning" at all ! stopdiggin Aug 2020 #7
The whole administration is stunningly evil IronLionZion Aug 2020 #8
The bar graphs 45 was displaying in that interview remind me of murielm99 Aug 2020 #10
A Venn diagram would overwhelm him Harker Aug 2020 #14
See? There's the difference! MyOwnPeace Aug 2020 #15
When There Is No Uniform Method On Data Collection DallasNE Aug 2020 #13
One RepubliCon argument that is popular now........... MyOwnPeace Aug 2020 #16
I've heard that one in hushed tones... Harker Aug 2020 #17

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
5. His WH enablers also feed him
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:14 PM
Aug 2020

Bullshit data and colorful, easy-to-read bar graphs to keep him from frothing at the mouth.

House of Roberts

(5,167 posts)
4. NBC News/Survey Monkey poll:
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:13 PM
Aug 2020

Just shown on MSNBC

58% Don't trust Trump about coronavirus
31% Trust Trump about coronavirus

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. Swan did a good job of not letting Trump frame the discussion
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:18 PM
Aug 2020

When Trump claimed that Swan couldn't frame the catastrophe of the pandemic in a way that didn't make Trump look good, Swan just said, "Why not?" Dear reporters: You don't have to adopt whatever assumptions Trump wants to use to make himself look good. You can sign on to reality and analyze reality through facts instead of Trump's self-serving nonsense.

MyOwnPeace

(16,920 posts)
12. Indeed!
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 05:33 PM
Aug 2020

I'm hoping that this interview, as well as the one with Chris Wallace, has opened the eyes of journalists working on covering BunkerBoy. Of course, as one wrote in Esquire recently, "I guess that's why my name isn't on "the list" of who's granted interviews" (while talking about reporters who take a "friendly" stance while talking to BunkerBoy and DO NOT hit him with follow-up questions - questions that push deep into the bullshit being spewed by BunkerBoy - and not accepted by the interviewer.)
And after this fiasco, BunkerBoy may "always be busy working" (meaning: GOLFING!) and not have time for these pesky interviews with people that don't respect or understand his brilliance......

stopdiggin

(11,254 posts)
7. NOT "stunning" at all !
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:41 PM
Aug 2020

Ummm. Sir -- you've been where exactly for the past three and a half years?
This isn't stunning -- this is playbook. And everybody knows it!

murielm99

(30,717 posts)
10. The bar graphs 45 was displaying in that interview remind me of
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 05:11 PM
Aug 2020

the simple graphs I taught to kids in my computer classes years ago. I had some resource room kids who were freshmen. I taught them how to make bar graphs and circle graphs. They had fun, and they learned a little bit of math.

DallasNE

(7,402 posts)
13. When There Is No Uniform Method On Data Collection
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 05:34 PM
Aug 2020

You can't get an accurate measurement. That is why Trump's matrix is invalid. Even with deaths some variance occurs because some people that died from complications have things like pneumonia listed rather than complications of Covid-19 so there is some under reporting issues with death as well. Even then Trump was using data that was a few weeks old and a lot happened in those two weeks.

MyOwnPeace

(16,920 posts)
16. One RepubliCon argument that is popular now...........
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 05:39 PM
Aug 2020

hospitals are claiming every death as being COVID-19 related. That way they get more federal money.
There can't really be that many deaths from a "hoax" - can there?

(DAMNED Hillary probably told them to do that in one of her e-mails!)

Harker

(13,988 posts)
17. I've heard that one in hushed tones...
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:08 PM
Aug 2020

as in, "my cousin works in a hospital, and she says people killed in auto accidents are being listed as Covid deaths."

It's nuts.

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