In New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman’s new book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, she writes of (one of many) a rather disturbing incident, in which then-candidate Donald Trump had a massive off-camera meltdown in 2016, over questions being asked of him about Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
However, popular and renowned ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos recently made an appearance on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where host Stephen Colbert pressed the cable news network anchor for more details on one of Donald Trump’s worst hissy fits, asking Stephanopoulos to explain what truly happened in the aftermath of that July 2016 interview.
Mediaite reports on the transcript of the interview between Colbert and Stephanopoulos:
STEPHEN COLBERT: She details how the then candidate, former president, lashed out at you after a 2016 interview you did with him. Why did he lash out at you? Because he lashed out so many ways to so many people. What was the lashing about?
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, it was the interview was the day after the Democratic convention in 2016. I guess it was a Friday. I flew out to Colorado to meet him in some town and we started to talk. And I asked him a question about, remember this Gold Star mother, the Muslim woman whose son was killed in Iraq?
STEPHEN COLBERT: Sure, sure.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And he attacked her and he just went after her. And I was like, I guess the interview is over. He just ended his campaign. But we kept on going. And I started to ask him about his relationship with Vladimir Putin, which he never gave a straight answer. Did he say he knew him? He said he didn’t know. He said he met him. He said he didn’t meet him. So I asked him about three or four times, just, you know, just tell us what the relationship was. And I was just asking factual questions, went three or four times with him. And he finished the interview and he walked out of the door and called over my producer, who had been traveling with one of the embeds traveling with him, and I could hear the yelling in the hallway. Then he had Hope Hicks come back into the room and get me and walk me into the hall. And then he started yelling at me, going on and on and on and on and on, because I asked him about Vladimir Putin, which should have been the biggest tell in the world back in 2016.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Yes.”
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Hindsight is certainly 20/20, but if only we had paid attention then.
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