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Trump Abruptly Ends CBS Interview After Wiretap Question

The following article by Glenn Thrush and Julie Hirschfeld Davis was posted on the New York Times website May 1, 2017:

President Trump abruptly ended an interview with John Dickerson, the host of “Face the Nation,’’ in the Oval Office. Here’s a look at other times he cut short interviews. By CHRIS CIRILLO on Publish Date May 1, 2017. Photo by Al Drago/The New York Times.

WASHINGTON — President Trump marked his first 100 days in office by attacking the news media with a calculated fury not seen since the beginning of his administration — while rewarding the journalists he allegedly loathes with long, newsy chats in the Oval Office, Air Force One rides and meals.

Mr. Trump’s split-personality approach to the press was on particular display on Saturday, when he skipped the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner to blast the news media in front of a friendly rally audience in Harrisburg, Pa., and then sat down with John Dickerson, host of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” for a wide-ranging conversation. Continue reading “Trump Abruptly Ends CBS Interview After Wiretap Question”

Fact-checking the Trumpian spin on ‘surveillance of Trump’

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website April 4, 2017:

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The Trump White House is determined to turn questions about Russian efforts to sway the presidential election into a probe about whether the Obama administration improperly spied on Trump campaign officials. This line of attack is consistent with President Trump’s March 4 tweets falsely claiming that President Barack Obama tapped his phones at the Trump Tower during the election.

On April 3, Trump seized on a three-day-old report recycled on Fox News — that a “very senior” intelligence official “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of people affiliated with the Trump team — to insist that should be the real focus on the Russia probe. This is entirely different from Trump’s original claim about phone taps during the election, but the White House often acts as if it is similar. Continue reading “Fact-checking the Trumpian spin on ‘surveillance of Trump’”