Jonathan Swan Trump interview on HBO - he actually challenged Trump to name sources

[Clash City Rocker]

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[North Shore Chicago]

1. Is there anything

right with the orange one? Where are his handlers? We live his delusions, oh my god.

[dem4decades]

2. Swan deserves to be recognized, from the little I saw he pressed Trump.

The rest of the people that interviewed Trump before should be ashamed and those that will in the future should take note.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. +1,000,000

[smirkymonkey]

3. Is there a link to the full interview?

I'd like to see this one. He's such a moron.

And what the fuck is with that hair? Mullet in back, cotton-candy wing in front. He's absolutely ridiculous looking.

And the toilet seat pose? Who sits like that? He's a disgrace.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Full interview is shown on "Axios on HBO" on Aug 3rd

https://www.nexttv.com/news/hbos-axios-features-president-trump-interview

They're just releasing excerpts now as trailers.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Dumb question..HBO Max....is that a different

Service than HBO?

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. I've no idea - I'm in Britain (nt)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. Sorry :). Here it is...

https://www.hbomax.com/do-i-already-have-access/?utm_id=sa|71700000067030777|58700005868654303|p53631644808&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=Cj0KCQjwpZT5BRCdARIsAGEX0zn-3kbk3u33PN7xaXFu1H1Nyv0AJSpAs0JDcGg_WQx8xYFKxIWCRJEaAnvSEALw_wcB

HBO Max is a brand new streaming platform, but you might already have access if you have an active HBO NOW subscription or you subscribe to HBO through a TV or mobile provider. Let’s get you up and streaming!

[PatSeg]

36. Yes, HBO Max has the same shows as regular HBO

but it has more movies and TV shows.

[Silver Gaia]

40. HBO Max is their new streaming app.

HBO on cable is still just HBO.

HBO Max replaced HBO Go (old streaming app for those with a cable subscription) and HBO Now (old subscription streaming app for those without cable). Theoretically. It isn't available (yet) on Roku or Amazon Fire Stick, so a lot of people don't have access, and some things are only going to be available on the app. In short, it's a big, confusing mess!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

46. So bottom line we won't be able to turn on HBO on TV

Cable TV and see interview?

[ProfessorGAC]

56. Yes We Can

I have xfinity.
I just searched the guide.
It airs at 10:06pm on the main HBO channel. HBO HD is on 186, here.)

[pink]

59. I found it hard getting past all the make-up he had plastered on his face.

[smirkymonkey]

53. Can't wait to see it. He looks like he's being shredded in the preview.

I can't imagine he will come off much better in the full interview.

[maddiemom]

15. People who are heavy through the gut sit like that...

and maybe if he DOES wear a girdle?

[NCjack]

4. A better followup question would have been: Wouldn't providing the

scientists the testing numbers, locations, and frequencies they want be the right amount of sampling for them to develop infection control plans?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. Exactly...no one ever says, "What do you think the difference between

Conducting a LOT of testing vs. Conducting the RIGHT amount of testing is?"

Like his style though. It's a quick "what you just said was crazy" style. Without being openly combative. And he knows facts...like mail ins have been used since the Civil War. But the biggest plus on this interview is that trump can't turn his mic off or drown out questioner with helicopter generator noise.

[duforsure]

5. And he claimed he passed the dementia test he took,lol,

Just look and listen to him. He's off his rocker, and it really shows, and many more people are thinking that and running away from him and the GOP for not stopping this lunatic from destroying out country, and hurting it's people. He's nuts.

[sop]

6. Notice Trump didn't answer the questions, he just doubled-down on his bullshittery.

[underpants]

14. He doesn't read the PDB, as if he reads testing manuals.

His staff must be reinventing history and telling him “No, it was 12,000 in Tulsa”

[FakeNoose]

30. Of course, that's his SOP

That's been his S-O-P standard operating practice all along, since way before the virus hit.

Occasionally someone will post an old interview where Chump is BS-ing whomever about whatever. I've seen so many of them but I'm not going to post one here. His standard behavior is to make some bullshit claim (that supports him) and then back it up with vague references to experts or books that don't exist. Of course he can't name any of them, but until now nobody asked him.

[modrepub]

8. Checking sources only applicable

To Democrats. Republicans only deal with straw-men arguments

[DeminPennswoods]

9. MSNBC or CNN or both showed that clip

of Swan pressing Trump to name names.

[djacq]

10. Replace Trump's voice with a 3 year old;

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[AZ8theist]

28. I'm pretty sure this kid is more intelligent than Trump.

[jcgoldie]

11. "Alot of people are saying.."

Is Trumps source for everything.

It means “I made this bullshit up or saw a batshit crazy racist conspiracy theory on OAN.“

[paleotn]

16. Exactly

Fucs News has been doing this same dodge for years. Hell, I can find "some people" who claim the earth is flat and the moon is populated by little green men.

[chriscan64]

19. Right. He needs to be called out on this tactic.

Like Jerry Seinfeld says, "Who are these people?"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

44. And name the top three doctors who endorse hydroxy chloroquine

[uponit7771]

25. +1,

[spanone]

12. first words out of his mouth....LIES....'we had 12 thousand not 6' lyin' MF45

[PatSeg]

38. I know

That's the first time I've heard him or anyone cite that figure. Were we to read the manuals and books to get that number too?

[underpants]

13. I asked Manuel, he doesn't know anything about testing too much

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I need to watch this interview. Still arguing about Tulsa and the Civil War rebut was funny.

[PatSeg]

39. And how do you "read" Manuel?

His body language?

[underpants]

43. You got it.

DU doesn’t allow for accents on the letters.

I heard that joke in Wall-E and always thought it was funny and of our times.

Read the manual? Where’s Manuel?

[PatSeg]

45. I'm a sucker for play on words humor!

The cornier, the better.

[underpants]

47. We went to a Lego store re-opening

People were lined up for blocks.

[PatSeg]

51. Yeah, like that!!!

[paleotn]

17. Keep lying, Donnie...

It's the only thing you're good at.

[Glorfindel]

18. With apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley

The United States of America in 2020

An old, mad, stupid, despised, and lying President;
His children, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Republicans who neither care nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people shot and beaten in th' urban battlefield
By a military, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.

[NNadir]

27. I like it. n/t.

[yonder]

49. +1.

[Illumination]

20. No mature cognizant discussion here! Rump is a failed embarassment!

[jayschool2013]

21. Hillary Clinton never accepted the 2016 results??!!?!?!

Then WTF is this?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. Think she has always acted amazingly about the election. Very hard to

Take given....

[JI7]

23. They need to do more of this. YEah, He wont answer because it's all BS. But at least show him

consistently doing that anytime he is asked simple questions. Expose what a fool he is.

Stop accepting the bs.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. But the typical venue is him shutting your mic off or having

you drowned out with helicopter. Press should set venue rules and they don't.

Why Dipshit agreed to this one unbelievable.

[NNadir]

26. Whenever he lapses into such stupid drivel, reporters should do exactly that. Every reporter.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

41. Now that would be funny. Mirror him. When he says

Something declarative, shout out "Fake News.". Then just make up shit.

I'd really like someone to ask him about bad things that went under radar. Things less partisan. Like "why haven't you paid campaign bills to cities for your rallies?" And "why did you reverse the Obama reg that stopped coal companies from dumping sludge with cancer causing materials into water?"

[czarjak]

31. Do they beat the Bible that you haven't read either?

[Trueblue Texan]

37. Notice how frequently he says...

...”you do know...” or “as you know.” Classic sales and manipulation technique.

[PatSeg]

42. Yes and it can be very effective

Also, "everyone knows", he does this all the time. To his audience, it is a confirmation of what he's saying.

[Marcuse]

48. "I know it and you know it"

[PatSeg]

52. Oh yeah

He uses it when everyone in the room disagrees with him, as if saying it will make it true.

[Skittles]

55. he knows it works on his pathetic braindead supporters

so he thinks it should work on everyone

[yonder]

50. This is great and It's about time. We need to see more

of that kind of questioning, or what he would call rude. His whole life has been one of unchallenged statements because no one would ever dare question "Mr. (The Great Oz) Trump.

[gulliver]

54. Here's Kaitlan Collins asking Trump "Who told you that?" That question is sunshine on Count Trumpula

She asked him twice. It's a fantastic way to nail Trump. He can't answer it, because he's either lying or getting info from a complete loser (like Stephen Miller or the demon seed doctor) and he knows it. It's a question that should just be asked every time he says anything whatsoever.

It implies he's spreading lies, either by making them up or because he's possibly been lied to. It completely shreds him. Lying to the president would be a terrible thing, and someone who did it would have to pay for it. The president making up lies himself? That's just as bad.

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[Cha]

57. KR!

[nuxvomica]

58. Swan is very good at making them squirm

Yet they keep talking to him. Here's a clip from his interview with Kudlow, in which the pseudo-economist tries to blame the higher rate of shuttering for Black businesses as related to the recent "violent protests", the old Blacks-are-hurt-more-by-Blacks canard, to which Swan said "no, this is from April." I'd say never take a canard to a swan fight.

[live love laugh]

60. Questions are like kryptonite to Republicans. nt