Chris Wallace may have made dad, Mike proud today, despite working for Fox News, as Putin seemed not to realize that many folks can cross-check the veracity of his lies.
This would have gone differently had Trump not decided to support Putin’s denials during the presser.
After President Donald Trump refused to confront Vladimir Putin over Russia’s direct interference in the 2016 U.S. election, Fox News host Chris Wallace decided to do it for him.
In an “exclusive” interview with the Russian president that followed his private meeting with Trump and their shocking joint press conference, Wallace literally held up Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers and demanded an explanation.
Putin appeared to laugh in Wallace’s face as he outlined the charges. When the host tried to hand him the stack of papers, the Russian president would not touch it, indicating that the host could place it on the table between them.
The host repeatedly interrupted Putin, asking how his denials can be true when the charges are outlined so specifically in the indictment. Putin, clearly not used to being interrupted when he speaks, grew increasingly agitated and told the host to be “patient,” saying, “let me finish” in several moments.
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Wallace also asked directly if Putin had “kompromat” on Trump or viewed him as an asset to be “played” given how deferential Trump has behaved towards Russia, most notably at Monday’s press conference. “Do you find President Trump easy to deal with?” he asked. Putin quickly dismissed that notion, insisting that he simply wanted to improve relations with the U.S.
“We don’t have anything on them,” Putin said. “I don’t want to insult President Trump when I say this, and it may come [off] as rude, but before he announced that he will run for presidency, he was of interest to us.”
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More interesting are those folks who like reading “body language”, now that there’s a good dataset of Trumpian nonverbal behavior