Trump walks out on Piers Morgan during contentious interview pic.twitter.com/NKUTBblGDS
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) April 20, 2022
The 30-second clip that Morgan's team released splashed across tabloids and media outlets, taking the lead spot across the Drudge Report with multiple links accusing Trump of having a "meltdown."
In it, Morgan splices several clips together that make it seem like as on-screen graphics and a deep male voice over says that Trump is a "former president in denial" over the 2020 election.
The promo, which calls it "the most explosive interview of the year," pulls a few short clips of Trump calling Morgan "a fool" and saying "this is very dishonest" and "let's finish up the interview," before showing Trump standing up and walking away and saying "turn the camera off."
But that's not what happened--not even close.
Trump spent more than an hour with Morgan, and the way the promo clip cuts together what it calls "Morgan Versus Trump" moments to promote the interview which will air on this coming Monday night is particularly deceptive.
Most of those moments had nothing to do with the election issue at all, and the full audio of the last bit of the interview shows that Trump standing up and walking away and saying "turn the camera off" came after Morgan ended the interview and thanked Trump for a "great interview."
The audio file obtained by Breitbart News, which is about seven and a half minutes long, begins with Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich interjecting into the middle of the interview to tell Morgan to wrap it up.
"We're an hour in," Budowich says. "We need to wrap." Morgan responds by begging for more time with Trump. "Just a few quick questions and then--" Morgan says. "Thank you," Budowich responds.
Morgan next asks Trump to define the meaning of a woman, to which Trump responds by bashing Lia Thomas--the biological male transgender athlete who has been competing in women's swimming events--then Morgan just keeps rolling asking more and more questions.
Check Breitbart for the all of the questions asked here, but they are not about the election of 2020 -- but that's what Morgan deceitfully edited the video to make it appear was asked of Trump before he "stormed off."
Morgan then starts asking another question, this time about his time together with Trump when they co-starred on The Apprentice, and another Trump aide can be heard in the background saying as Morgan begins it:
"Last question." Morgan replies to that person by saying: "Yeah, yeah."
After another minute of back and forth between Trump and Morgan, Morgan asks Trump's team for yet another "last question."
Budowich replies by saying: "You've done last question four times now. I feel like you're lying at this point." Trump interjects and says "very deceptive."
"You've said last question four times," Budowich says.
"I haven't asked about--I wanted to end with your hole-in-one," Morgan says, then asks Trump to describe his recent hole-in-one when playing alongside golf legend Ernie Els.
Trump agrees and says "go ahead."
Then Morgan asks his question, and Trump answers for more than a minute. After that's over, Morgan agrees the interview is over and thanks Trump for a "great interview."
2 comments:
There is no such thing as "bashing" Lia Thomas, the young MAN who is a LIAR and a CHEAT who is blithely STEALING awards in a woman's sport for which HE is not qualified.
Yes, that was not a very good perspective from Ace of Spades.
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