Trump proved once again he is unfit to be president. On Wednesday night, the New York Times published a partial transcript of the interview between Trump and White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush. During the interview, as he did with President Obama, Trump accused former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice of an unknown crime.
Here are a few excerpts. Trump starts out claiming Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings said Trump paid him a HUGE compliment.
TRUMP: Elijah Cummings [a Democratic representative from Maryland] was in my office and he said, “You will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country.”
HABERMAN: Really.
TRUMP: And then he went out and I watched him on television yesterday and I said, “Was that the same man?”
It will be interesting to hear how Cummings responds.
Then Trump lit in on Susan Rice and accused then NYT of not covering the “biggest story ever.”
HABERMAN: We’ve written about it twice.
TRUMP: I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story. I think it’s a massive, massive story. All over the world, I mean other than The New York Times.
(Nice little dig at NYT. But they came back.)
HABERMAN: We’ve written about it twice.
TRUMP: Yeah, it’s a bigger story than you know. I think —
HABERMAN: You mean there’s more information that we’re not aware of?
TRUMP: I think that it’s going to be the biggest story.
THRUSH: Why? What do you think —
TRUMP: Take a look at what’s happening. I mean, first of all her performance was horrible yesterday on television even though she was interviewed by Hillary Clinton’s P.R. person, Andrea Mitchell [the NBC News journalist]. Course you’ve been accused of that also.
HABERMAN: Mostly by you, though.
TRUMP: No, no, no. Mostly by a lot of people. So you know, we’ll see what happens, but it looks like it’s breaking into a massive story.
THRUSH: What do you think are — what other shoes are there to drop on this?
HABERMAN: Yeah, what else could we learn on this?
TRUMP: I think you’re going to see a lot. I think you’ll see a lot.
HABERMAN: In terms of what she did and in terms of [unintelligible]?
TRUMP: I think in terms of what other people have done also.
HABERMAN: Really?
TRUMP: I think it’s one of the biggest stories. The Russia story is a total hoax. There has been absolutely nothing coming out of that. But what, you know, what various things led into it was the story that we’re talking about, the Susan Rice. What’s happened is terrible. I’ve never seen people so indignant, including many Democrats who are friends of mine. I’ve never seen them acting this way. Because that’s really an affront on them, you know, they are talking about civil liberties. It’s such an affront, what took place.
THRUSH: What other people do you think will get ensnared in this? Can you give us a sense? How far this might extend —
HABERMAN: From the previous administration.
TRUMP: I think from the previous administration.
THRUSH: How far up do you think this goes? Chief of staff?
TRUMP: I don’t want to say, but —
THRUSH: President?
TRUMP: I don’t want to say, but you know who. You know what was going on. You probably know better than anybody. I mean, I frankly think The Times is missing a big thing by not writing it because you’re missing out on the biggest story there is.
Check out the partial interview by clicking here.
Funny how he’s telling the New York Times whom he calls “Fake News” to write up the “biggest story out there.” And of course Trump adds, “The Russia story is a total hoax.” It’s a “hoax” that may ultimately oust him from office or at minimum aid in his removal.
When is the traditional media collectively going to hunker down, get some courage and tell him he’s “full of shit?” New York Times got in some good digs during this portion of the interview, but not enough. Perhaps their objective was simply to further expose him. But Trump exposes his lying, sexist, opulent, arrogant, bigoted, racist, xenophobic, tax-evading, bullying, warmongering, fear-infusing, greedy, ego-driven, predatory... self every single day.
The press can do more and we desperately need for them to call Trump out each and every time he lies. It’s the least they can do after holding his hand and being his free press and echo chamber throughout the entire election. We need them now more than ever to be courageous, and as Meryl Steep so eloquently said during the Golden Globes, we need to support all of media more than ever, as well, when they do call him out. For the first time ever, I bought a subscription to the New York Times and Washington Post to support them and their truth-seeking work, even though I can — as all of us can, get most of their news for free.
Many live for the day when this evil man is removed from office. And he will be removed. He is an embarrassment to this country. He is an embarrassment to the world. He is an embarrassment to the human species.