NPR’s Steve Inskeep was the recipient of Donald Trump’s wrath during an interview on Tuesday when the former President cut the meeting short. Inskeep has sought an interview with Trump for years, and he finally got one, but it only lasted for nine minutes.
The outlet starts its article about the interview by quoting South Dakota Republican Senator Mike Rounds, who was targeted by Trump this week for not denying reality, and admitting that President Joe Biden won the election over a year ago.
“While there were some irregularities, there were none of the irregularities which would have risen to the point where they would have changed the vote outcome in a single state,” Sen. Rounds said on Sunday. “The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency. And if we simply look back and tell our people don’t vote because there’s cheating going on, then we’re going to put ourselves in a huge disadvantage.”
Trump didn’t like that and said that it’s an advantage to remain focused on 2020.
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“No, I think it’s an advantage because otherwise, they’re going to do it again in ’22 and ’24, and Rounds is wrong on that. Totally wrong,” Trump told NPR in an interview Tuesday while regurgitating his widely debunked, fact-free lie.
Trump abruptly ended the interview when Inskeep pressed the twice-impeached disgraced former President about his big lie of a rigged election. According to NPR, Trump quickly got off the phone after being questioned about whether his baseless election fraud claims inspired the Capitol attack on Jan. 6.
The outlet said it asked the former President about a quote from his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, shortly after the election. “This is not a fraud case,” Giuliani told a judge at the time, and the outlet told the ex-president that multiple judges, many of whom Trump appointed, ruled against him.
“It was too early to ask for fraud and to talk about fraud. Rudy said that because of the fact it was very early with the — because that was obviously at a very, very — that was a long time ago. The things that have found out have more than bore out what people thought and what people felt and what people found,” Trump said.
Before ending the interview, the outlet notes that Trump could offer “no evidence of widespread fraud that caused him to lose the election.”
“The tone of the interview changed,” NPR adds. “Trump then hurried off the phone, as he was starting to be asked about the attack on the Capitol, inspired by election lies.”
You can watch the video of the interview below:
What a disgrace. And I want to buy Inskeep a drink. More journalists should confront Trump with his lies.
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