'Homie going to prison': Critics react to 'disastrous' Trump interview with Fox News' Bret Baier
By: Sarah K. Burris (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)
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A meandering interview between Donald Trump and Fox host Bret Baier ended with even other Fox hosts struck by the "incoherent" moments.
"How much did Joe Rogan pay Bret Baier to debate Donald Trump," asked former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. It's a reference to Joe Rogan's demand that Joe Biden debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Jon Favreau made the obvious point that Trump's lawyers were likely unhappy that Trump was saying such things on television because it would make their defense even harder.
"This is next level of 'I would like to report a murder.' Bret Baier did a great job firing back," said Jonathan Ford.
"If mookish insecurity could generate a heat field, Bret Baier would have already been immolated sitting this close to Trump," quipped "The Atlantic's" Tom Nichols.
Activist and writer Goldie Taylor pointed to the video of Trump saying he had the right to have the boxes and said flatly: "Homie going to prison."
Her other observation was about the recording in which Trump admits he could have declassified a document but couldn't now that he wasn't. Trump went on to tell Baier that he never even saw the document he is on tape showing to people.
"Something is truly wrong with this man," Taylor said.
RepubNowDem on Twitter, commenting on Tomi Lahren's posting of a Biden video, argued, "this is all just to deflect from Trump's disastrous interview on Fox."
George Conway joked: "It seems like deputy special counsel Bret Baier filleted the defendant today."
Devin Duke wondered, "Are they going to send their minions to go harass Bret Baier at his home now too?" It refers to a number of pro-Trump people threatening or swatting those who disagree with them in person.
Rep. Eric Swallwell (D-CA) posted the clip of Trump confessing to taking classified documents.
"Well that's that. Trump just confessed to Fox News that he stole and shared classified materials," he tweeted.
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Trump has lost it. NO ONE with a modicum of intelligence who loves America could possibly consider voting for Trump after this interview. Give credit to Bret Baier, he conducted the interview that should have occurred at the CNN town hall. It was utterly devastating to Donald Trump.
I LOVE IT! I was watching MSNBC dissect this inteview - O'Donnell kept referring to him as Defendant trump. LOL!
Waddayamean? I know of several people on NT who have said that they would.
TRUMP TALKS
Trump shrugs off large number of his former Cabinet officials who don't want him reelected
Former President Donald Trump addressed some of the federal criminal charges against him in an interview Monday with Fox News anchor Bret Baier. Trump also clashed with Baier over his false 2020 election claims and insisted that for all the former top officials in his administration who oppose his reelection, there are more who "love" him.
Baier pointed out that Trump claimed in 2016 he would surround himself with "only the best and most serious people," then noted that many of those people don't support his bid for a second term or actively warn against it. Trump's own vice president and United Nations ambassador are running against him, Baier noted. Neither of his defense secretaries or secretaries of state support him, and former Attorney General Bill Barr, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper have suggested Trump is a danger to national security.
Baier also read some insults Trump has fired off at Barr , former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and other top officials in his administration. "So why did you hire all of them in the first place?" he asked. "For every one you say, I had 10 that love us," Trump responded, without offering names.
Baier asked Trump about the 37-count indictment accusing him of willfully hoarding national security secrets and obstructing the government's demands to get them back. "Criminal defendants usually avoid speaking publicly about details of any charges in their case, for fear of their remarks being used against them," The New York Times noted.
But Trump acknowledged keeping classified documents after the National Archives asked for them back and after the government subpoenaed them, and he did not deny asking employees to falsely claim he had returned all the records. "Before I send boxes over, I have to take all of my things out," Trump told Baier . "These boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things," like "golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes," and "I was very busy, as you've sort of seen."
Trump also claimed that despite prosecutors having audio of and perhaps witnesses to him showing off "secret," evidently classified Iran battle plans at his Bedminster club, he was just talking about a stack of "newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles."
Trump's "answers on the matters of the law seem to me to verge on incoherent," Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said after the interview. "He seemed to be saying that the documents were really his and that he didn't give them back when he was requested to do when they were subpoenaed because, you know, he wasn't ready. ... It was not altogether clear what he was saying" about his right to classified documents, he added, but "I don't think it's going to hold up in court."
Dental abscesses are more popular than MAGA...
Citation or it's more "but Trump" bullshit. It gets old real fast. And makes the claimant look foolish. One may think it's funny but it's stale as hell. Get some new material.
Nice try. Don't see anything about abscesses. Soooooo it's bullshit and you admit it.
Do you honestly demand a citation "proving" the factual basis of a sarcastic remark?
Why dont you "prove" that Biden was shaking hands with an invisible person when he extended his hand towards the audience after a speech last year?
Where the fuck is the /s tag John?
And the invisible handshake is on video. He was expecting someone to be there and they weren't but, as is his usual, he carried on anyway. Then turned around and found real people.
I thought it was funny. As dumb as I am, even I can see it was sarcasm. Like when I say I would rather hammer nails in my eyes than vote for trmp...it's just me spouting off
First of all, the idea that Biden was shaking hands with no one has been completely debunked. There were people sitting in the direction he hand gestured to, about 10 feet from where Biden was at. We can know he was gesturing to the audience because in the extended video of the event he can be seen walking to the other side of the stage and making the same gesture to the people who were sitting on that side.
So, PROVE that Biden was shaking hands with no one. There is no EVIDENCE of that, just right wing fantasies.
As far as what JBB said, it appears, clearly, to have been a sarcastic remark for which no "proof" exists or is necessary.
“…even I can see it was sarcasm.”
Obvious to most…chalk it up to:
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
boo hoo hoo, put a mic and camera in his face and watch your hero incriminate himself even further...
Don't care what he does. He's no hero of mine. I am not the one obsessed and enamored with his mere existence like some around these parts.
Do you really need a sarcasm tag?
No but some people think they are cute making up stuff that they probably actually believe. Just pointing that out.
Side note, I thought sarcasm was supposed to be funny and fact based? So we are told when an article by The Babylon Bee shows up.
It's quite obvious that you actually are.
It was a joke, Jim. Based on opinion. Lots of people make them, and expect their audience to get them.
I know. I post all those pro Trump articles and bring him up in every seed..................../S
And Jim is not JBB's target audience.
He’s been less popular than a root canal since 2016. Happy now?
Makes it even funnier that he beat Hillary, then, doesn't it?
LMAO!
And she conceded, like every other losing candidate in modern US history other than your hero Donald Trump.
Then joined a lawsuit over results in Wisconsin and called Trump an illegitimate President. "Conceding" is a meaningless act, as anyone old enough to remember Al Gore should know.
Trump isn't my hero.
No need to get mad because I merely pointed out how Trump beat Hillary.
I guess the poll would indicate that she polled lower than Trump, lice, root canals, hipsters, jury duty, the DMV and Nickleback.
Not sure her concession has anything to do with the poll, but it is an unsurprising change of subject.
Maybe you can relate her concession to the poll?
That was just a deflection instead of pointing out how Hillary fared worse than Trump in that poll since she couldn't beat him!
Funny.
I'm glad you can see the humor in Hillary losing to such a man.
That was in May of 2016 FFS when he started scaring the shit out of almost all democrats. And you say "since"? I call bullshit and "no value". He got elected that year didn't he?
Keep digging.....................
How stupid! A citation for an insult against the former 'president'?
Get some new material.
How dumb can you get?
So why the endless defense of the indefensible?
man? No
It's not Hal who is digging. Or do you have lastworditis?
That's what he did on the Bret Baier interview - he's such a fucking moron.
MSNBC dissected his 'responses' and O'Donnell only referred to him as Defendant trump
lol
He lost the popular vote.
He may have been more popular than cockroaches and hemorrhoids, though, so he has that.
Well you got the first two letters right. But you are describing satire.
Are you completely incapable of following a conversation or just trolling? I was replying to my friend Hal, and never mentioned Hillary Clinton.
Actually it was Putin who beat Hillary using many years of targeted propaganda directed towards American far right-wing news and web sites. Even a few moderates and centrists came to believe these oft repeated lies and innuendo from Putin's propaganda machine.
Amazing that Putin could influence otherwise Hillary supporters.
This nonsense gets funnier by the day.
The cognitive dissonance to believe some of the things you read here are astonishing.
You may be overestimating the intelligence of the Hillary voter.
It's amazing how totally clueless some right-wingers are. They have no idea what is actually happening in the world, and they're not capable of being educated.
Right wingers as you put them we’re already going to vote for trump no matter what, so you just admitted that democrat Hillary supporters are so stupid that they fell for false propaganda. Exactly how stupid are democrats?
It's common knowledge that Hillary and Putin have hated each other for many years. Long before she was First Lady and Sec. State.
It's also common knowledge that Putin has an extensive Propaganda machine that he uses against his own people as well as foreign nationals. A man named Vladimir Solovyov is Putin's chief on-air propagandist. The Internet Research Agency (IRA), also known as Glavset and the Trolls from Olgino is Putin's online propaganda machine.
I must suspect anybody who denies these facts as being a Russian bot or at the very least being susceptible to Putin's propaganda machine.
That's a typical losing straw man argument, pretending someone said something they didn't then trying, and failing miserably, to make a point about it. But if that's the level of your discourse then you just admitted republicans are fascists and hate America. Exactly how much do republicans hate America?
How do you explain Hillary’s March 2009 presentation to Russian Foreign Minister Lavroy with a red Reset button?
Even impeccably left wing sites like the nation recognize how shoddy and amateurish the Russian interference was in 2016
the IRA’s biggest success in 2016 was organizing an anti trump March after he won.
Republicans would only be fascists if they supported fascists. Your ignorant comment only proves your original point. A large portion of democrats aren’t very bright and buy into the propaganda bullshit they are fed.
Putin wasn't president at the time. It was Dmitry Medvedev.
Hillary and Obama were just hoping for better Russian relations.
Another miserable fail by you, but your comment definitely proves your point that a large portion of republicans are fascists and hate America.
Was there any doubt in 2009 that Putin was replacing Medvedev?
Even if one accepts your point that a large portion of current Repubs are fascists (and I don’t), what do you assume that they hate America?
Confirming your original post wasn’t necessary. Non-democrats got it the first time.
Read the comments again, and direct your question to the appropriate person.
Because Putin told him that in a Facebook post.
It's unnecessary for you to keep repeating yourself, but you're hell bent on proving your point that many republicans are fascists and hate America. You've made your belief clear. We all understand you.
You're racking up a string of failures. Unlike you, I don't get my news from Facebook. You've admitted that Facebook is your sole source of information. I've never had a Facebook account.
That's not how she lost the election.
She lost the election because she spent 25 years alienating people through her barely shrouded disdain for blue collar Americans.
Wow, you also proven another fact, if some democrats repeat a lie often enough they start to believe it.
Wow, you've also proven another fact - republicans are often the source of lies and misrepresentations.
See you are repeating the same lie, over and over.
You are repeating what you said, which is the same lie you've been telling, over and over.
And now you believe what you wrote, confirming exactly what I said.
You don't believe anything you wrote because you know it's all lies. Everyone else knows it, too. [deleted]
And then when their lies are pointed out they resort to personal attacks. Predictable.
I've been pointing out your lies and I suggested something to help you. You should take the advice instead of constantly making personal attacks. It's a bad look.
You're wasting your time. You're up against a MAGA standard operating procedure, mirroring. A MAGA simply reflects back whatever they're accused of. Imperturbably. Indefinitely. This behavior jas nothing to do with debate. It is pure trolling. You can do nothing about it.
It's like the unfunny memes all over the Internet: they're happy to waste their time (and everyone else's) on the off chance they'll trigger a lib.
That's what they live for: triggering libs.
And now projection, classic behavior.
Never voted for trump, so MAGA is a lie, and another classic maneuver, calling for help from an associate when trying to shout down a message you don’t like. And you feel MAGA is an insult so the scripted pattern of insults when you have nothing else continues. Predictable.
Obviously, the comments I've been responding to are a total joke. It's pure entertainment.
"Scripted".
It's funny, right? Pathetic, of course, but kind of funny.
Of course it’s scripted, you have to for people unable to think on their feet, like Biden at press conferences.
Still posting ignorant comments.
Yes you are and everyone can read them.
Not even original, do you have an original thought or comment to make.
You sound desperate. Sad.
Have a wonderful life.
I can't imagine he would be required to spend even a day in a jail or prison. Either he will be under Mar a Lago house arrest with a GPS anklet or in a padded cell in a mental institution.
Is the Jon Favreau mentioned in the article the one who acted in "Chef"? Loved that movie.
Different guy. This Jon Favreau is a political pundit and podcaster who once worked as Obama's chief speechwriter.
Weird that these 2 guys have the same name. It's not a common name like Mike Smith
Not looking to peachy for the maga muffins today, cause Trumpcan'not lie this one away. Just drag it out forever
maga muffins
lol
you crack me up iggy
now I want a peach muffin - is there such a thing?
You can make one!
True! But I'm lazy.
lol
Take an english muffin and slather peach preserves all over it. There! Now you have a peach muffin!
Note to self - add english muffins and peach preserves to shopping list.
In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, some Dem dummies think that Trump will end up being the nominee.
That's not going to happen since sufficient numbers of Republican voters will wake up by primary time to reject him.
Then the lefties will be stuck with Biden facing, most likely, DeSantis. They will be totally fucked if the Repubs gain a couple Senate seats and keep the House.
What evidence is that?
sufficient numbers of Republican voters will wake up by primary time to reject him
Like last time? MAGA doesn’t even care if Trump grabs them by the pussy.
That’s why joe Biden won’t let Brett Baier, or any credible journalist, interview him. Can get rough when there’s no scripted questions and the “journalist” isn’t actively working to protect the interviewee.
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I am sure you have documented proof that Biden used that as an excuse? We'll wait.
Joe's handlers would most likely only agree to an interview if they have control of the questions and would only take the interview with certain journalists.
Joe is a walking disaster almost every time he speaks extemporaneously vs. sticking to the script.
Of course he does, Sean would never make things up....HEAVY SARCASM!!!!!!!
Instead of yet another boring ole substance free personal attack, why don't you surprise everyone by trying to make an actual argument sometime?
Lol. That's some A+ partisan hackery right there. You know you can't defend Biden's documented record of avoiding interviews with Baier (who requests one every week) so you deflect to some ridiculous demand instead. Boy, you sure showed everyone... well nothing. But when you are a partisan hack with nothing to do but shill for Biden, what else can you do?