Donald Trumps transition team doesnt trust him to speak for himself

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/22/donald-trumps-transition-team-doesnt-trust-him-to-speak-for-himself/

by Sophia Tesfaye at Salon

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(Trump) :

I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice
6:16 AM - 22 Nov 2016
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Trump eventually relented and agreed to the meeting after the Times made clear that it was actually Trump who tried to change the rules of the meeting, by insisting on the cancellation of an on-the-record segment, which both sides had previously agreed to. The Times reported it was Trump’s transition team that had led him to believe otherwise, for fear he would only embarrass himself in front of the newspaper’s reporters.

“Three people with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s initial decision to cancel the meeting said that Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, had been among those urging the president-elect to cancel it,” the Times reported on Tuesday. According to the newspaper, the Republican National Committee chairman feared Trump “would face questions he might not be prepared to answer”:

It was Mr. Priebus who relayed to Mr. Trump, erroneously, that The Times had changed the conditions of the meeting, believing it would result in a cancellation, these people said.

The news of Priebus’ attempted manipulation of Trump came on the same day that Trump’s former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, pronounced that Trump had suddenly reversed course on a major campaign pledge and would no longer seek criminal charges against former rival Hillary Clinton (a power not even granted the president).


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