cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23108955
“I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.”
As [NABJ president Ken] Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.
Good for them for outing his bullshit, though him and his “Team” (Cheung) will just lie about it anyway. They called him out for lying, and that’s what’s important.
When he got there, all of a sudden they were black. He hadn’t noticed they were black before
It’s a small thing, but when you watch it he stopped himself from saying “went black” and instead said “turned black”. They’re both pretty bad, but I just think it’s funny that in his mind “turned black” was the way to say it.
Refuses to go if fact checked. Provides a bullshit excuse for not going, gets immediately fact checked about it.
Suck it, Damn Old Trump
Kinda off topic, but I appreciate how nice and clean Axios is without an adblocker, and how concise and bait free the articles (mostly) are.
I don’t know how they stay sane and still make money, when the rest of the internet is worse than the Idiocracy TV.
I mean, we all know that virtually everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth is 100% grade-A bullshit.
But when he says that he is unwilling to participate if he’s going to be fact-checked means that he knows that everything is saying is a lie. He just admitted to it. Nobody who believes that they’re telling the truth is afraid of being fact-checked, especially not to that degree.
He literally was telling the NABJ that he’s not going to participate if he’s not allowed to lie.
It’s not quite the self-report that you think it is. Refusing to accept fact checking is a rational decision in the hypothetical framework that the participant is being honest and the checker is unreliable or dishonest.
