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Chris Wallace Trump Interview 19JUL20

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trouble13 said:
Chris Wallace does not seem to like Trump and he is nit picky and argumenitive with Trump but honestly Trumps biggest problem is himself. He comes across as being unprepared for questions that are kinda obvious to be asked. The fact is that Trump does not interview or debate well. Those are not his strengths.
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Yeah, and I bet he doesn't testify under oath well, either.
 
MaryP said:
I am VERY interested in one thing, this is the second time I've heard him talking about it:

In the interview, Trump says the Supreme Court DACA decision gave him great powers that no one knew a President had before. He said he is not only going to change immigration policy, he is also going to eliminate Obamacare and replace it with a better plan. In two weeks. He said it is going to be an amazing two weeks.

Do you have any idea what he is talking about?
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He was joking! Jeez! After all this time, can't you people tell when he is joking? You can't take what he says literally.
 
trouble13 said:
Biden does not debate well either. He may be worse than Trump on a debate stage.

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Your kidding right?

He has been in hundreds of debates in his career, remember how he owned palm?

I don't even remember who Romney ran with...

Trump can't stay on subject for more than ten seconds, and he'll be so coked up his heart will probably pop.

I really thought it would during the Hillary debate when he was too high to be in public...
 
ReubenSherr said:
Lol.

No. Trump nailed him, beginning with pointing out that nearly all his points were based on a skewed poll.

You literally have no idea what you're talking about.

And why is this thread a liberal chat room? That's what the COVID forum is for, people.
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Were is this new health care plan he intends to sign in two weeks? Another BS lie from a man who has zero integrity.

Get used to these words

President Elect Biden

Nov is going to be a slaughter for the GOP.
 
MaryP said:
I found something, finally. Axios wrote about it, citing a legal analysis by John Yoo, who has just finished writing a book about President Trump’s use of Presidential power. Yoo says John Roberts’ recent decision in the DACA case “"makes it easy for presidents to violate the law" using Executive Orders and also makes it harder for his successor to undo it. Yoo’s argument is explained in more detail in a National Review article. I don’t pretend to understand it all.

Trump eyes Supreme Court ruling on DACA as license to skirt the law - Axios

Yoo’s National Review article has been sitting on the President’s desk. His staff say they are taking Yoo’s opinion into consideration but whatever actions they take won’t rely solely on that. They very primly say they want everything they do to be lawful and right.

It’s noted that if the President writes an unconstitutional EO, the Supreme Court could not review it before the end of Trump’s term.

I was surprised it was so hard to find anything on this. None of the majors have picked it up that I can see. But maybe they all think Yoo is a crackpot. The Axios legal expert said it “strains” existing case law and history. I guess we’ll see. If any of you are real Constitutional/legal scholars, have a go at it, because if you ask me the President may just try it. As he likes to say, what has he got to lose?
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Here's another take, from John Yoo, himself. It sounds like he's interpreting that the Federal Court's decision on Obama's DACA set precedence for Presidents to just refuse to enforce existing laws and create new ones overriding them -- giving them unprecedented power to ignore red tape, Congress, and pretty much do anything they want. How on earth Trump translated that to a brilliant health plan, that will be inacted in two weeks, I have no idea, but I could see him getting the idea from his advisors that his dream of absolute power is closer with this interpretation. It sounds more like he plans to to just broadly repeal and throw aside Obama's entire health care act, without congress approval, and ignore any legal enforcement, then replace it with his own idea of a utopia. Same for any other drastic ideas he wants to implement in three months, and supposedly the future administrations cannot refute them, since the Court's would uphold them.

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Even though federal immigration law requires the deportation of the DREAM-ers and their parent aliens, the Court allowed President Barack Obama to refuse to enforce it by simple executive fiats.
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According to Regents, presidents can now stop enforcing laws they dislike, hand out permits or benefits that run contrary to acts of Congress and prevent their successors from repealing their policies for several years.
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Critics would say that this economic deferred action program would violate the law, because the president would not be fulfilling his responsibility to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” But, according to the Supreme Court’s DACA opinion, presidents now can use their prosecutorial discretion to set the enforcement level for any federal law at zero.
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ReubenSherr said:
Because starting from about 10 minutes into the interview, he nailed Wallace on nearly every single question. Wallace got more and more humble as the interview went along, to the point where he was pleading with Trump to like him.
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LOL, you must have watched a different interview .
 
Rexedgar said:
I haven’t seen the entire thing, but I think I have seen enough. Who in the WH thought that this was going to turn out positively for Trump and his campaign?


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That interview was a catastrophe for trump.
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
I can't imagine a rational person watching this interview and voting for Trump.
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they aren't rational. they're people who think that their station in life should be guaranteed above those folks they hate.

the ole South Confederate mindset.
 
joko104 said:
Why Trump would agree to being questioned by a Never-Trumper is difficult to figure out.
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Honest to god, sincerely, I'd love to know what questions, if any, you feel were hardball or unfair questions? I watched the interview all the way through and all of these questions would have been considered fairly softball to literally any other modern president. I've heard lots of complaining by the president's supporters, but I've yet to hear them actually explain why the questions were unfair or too complicated or particularly hard.
 
Trump acts like a talk radio host. That is all he knows how to do. He could care less about the facts and has no desire to educate himself. Whatever he believes or feels is what he will defend and spew forth. There is no desire to go any deeper, its just pure hubris and ignorance being covered up by aggression and bully tactics. This is how Sean and Rush do it to their listeners. Neither of them have a degree, they make up for it by lying through their teeth and steamrolling over opponents. Alan Colmes created Sean in the 90s when he passively sat there letting Sean tell lie after lie without saying a thing. Sean perfected it while pummeling Alan every night. As for Rush, he never had guests so he did not need to defend himself. Trump acts the same way. Its unbelievable sane adults cannot see through this crap.
 
Aletheia said:
Or Hannity, who would say something like, We know liberals are wrong and we are the best, right Mr. President? They make up numbers, but our numbers are the best, right, Mr. President? Trump wouldn't even have to provide any evidence, Hannity, would provide pro evidence for everything he says.

Great job, from Wallace. Never thought I'd be giving a thumbs up to a FOX interview.

Quote of the interview.
"I take responsibility always for everything..."
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Hannity asks real hard hitting questions, like "What is your favorite soup" and "Do you know what color panties Melania is wearing today?".
 
tres borrachos said:
Hannity asks real hard hitting questions, like "What is your favorite soup" and "Do you know what color panties Melania is wearing today?".
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and the one Trump could not answer was when Hannity asked him if he gets a second term what is his priorities.
 
mike2810 said:
and the one Trump could not answer was when Hannity asked him if he gets a second term what is his priorities.
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Now now. He gave a great answer. He talked about never having a sleepover in Washington DC before. Profound!
 
Cardinal said:
That interview was a catastrophe for trump.
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Like everything else, his supporters either think he was brilliant or that Wallace came after him unfairly. ....or a combination of the two. Asked near the end about his legacy, something about being a victim.


Also, did you see the faces of both men? Trump was sweating his ass off and Wallace was calm cool and collected. Who thinks outdoors is a good idea in July DC?
 
ReubenSherr said:
Funny, I had the exact opposite interpretation.

Especially in regard to Wallace lying about being impartial to both political parties.

Trump nailed him when he pointed out that all the "stats" Wallace was using came from a poll which surveyed 22% Republicans, weighted or not. After that, Wallace became much more humble.
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Trump claimed to know the contents of a poll which was being revealed to him for the first time.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Trump claimed to know the contents of a poll which was being revealed to him for the first time.
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And.... it was like 40-some percent Republicans polled in the Fox polls.

But his gullible supporters eat it up anyway.
 
Rexedgar said:
Like everything else, his supporters either think he was brilliant or that Wallace came after him unfairly. ....or a combination of the two. Asked near the end about his legacy, something about being a victim.


Also, did you see the faces of both men? Trump was sweating his ass off and Wallace was calm cool and collected. Who thinks outdoors is a good idea in July DC?
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Yeah, I saw that his response to the question of his legacy was “Me victim.” That was a common theme throughout the interview. Another example that leapt out at me was when he was asked about black people being killed and arrested at vastly disproportionate amounts when compared to white people, and Trump responded, “that’s been going on for decades!” That’s an awfully bizarre answer when you realize he was confirming Wallace’s point. But it stops being bizarre when you realize that the reason Trump responded in that way is because he thought he personally was being held responsible for institutional racism.

There is literally no set of circumstances he doesn’t see as being about himself.
 
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jaypatriot said:
Obviously you don't take exception to some of Biden's plans to ruin the country.
So far, the idea of spending $2 trillion to replace fossil fuels by 2035 is sheer insanity.
Does anyone listen to what Biden is proposing?
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Other countries are far surpassing us in newer and better power sources. Fossil fuels are just really inefficient.
 
Threegoofs said:
And.... it was like 40-some percent Republicans polled in the Fox polls.
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Trump didn’t have access to this poll, it was hours old. The previous Fox poll surveyed 100+ more Democrats than Republicans, I’m assuming that’s where the 22% number came from.

This poll surveyed 46% Democrats, 42% Republicans, 12% Independents.

The actual electorate is 31% Democrat, 30% Republican.

Explains why the Biden margin is narrower than in the previous poll, but these percentages are still nowhere near accurate, especially because many unaffiliated voters chose Trump in 2016. And still too many Democrats surveyed compared to Republicans.
 
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joko104 said:
Why Trump would agree to being questioned by a Never-Trumper is difficult to figure out.
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Yep....but at least he manned up and took those hard questions....now lets see Dementia Joe receive the same kind of interview and the same kind of tough questions and see how he does.

Say a few like these:

Q: Joe, do you remember the tax loophole you and Obama tried to close, called the “S Corporation”? Since leaving office, you and your wife have laundered money through S Corps to save millions in taxes ordinary Americans have to pay. Why the change of heart, Joe?

Or how about this ???

Q:Your son Hunter took a position with a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma, just before you visited Kiev and urged Ukraine to increase its natural gas production. He was paid as much as $50,000 a month despite having no experience in Ukraine or the natural gas industry. Why do you think Burisma hired your son and paid him such massive sums?

Or this:

Your son has announced that if you are elected, he will not work on behalf of any foreign-owned companies and will comply with all regulations “to address purported conflicts of interest, or the appearance of such conflicts.” If his foreign work would be a conflict if you were president, why was it not a conflict when you were vice president?

Or how about his response to Trump shutting down flights from China back in January due to coronavirus

Q: Joe....you called President Trumps shutting off flights from China over corona virus xenophobic....does that mean you would have continued flights from China in spite of the spreading corona-virus from China???

Or.....and I like this one!

Q: Joe, you say you want to transform America...yet you've been in politics for almost 50 years and were vice president for 8 years and have never transformed **** in all those years....and if America needs transforming...why didn't you say so and get started decades ago???
 
Joe Biden refuses to answer any questions from Chris Wallace.
 
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