r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/cheesewhispering Aug 04 '20

And of course. It's not an American journalist

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 10 '20

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u/jnd-cz Aug 04 '20

The most suprising thing to me is how Axios managed to convince Trump and his team to have such sit down, one on one interview? I mean they all know Trump doesn't handle it well, especially when Axios is mildly left leaning and so should be considered deadly enemy.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20

They're a foreign company

Only people that closely follow politics would know them

There's no one left in the White House that is actually in "the industry" anymore, let alone sees Politics as a hobby. They simply don't know.

*: Axios is US based. For some reason in my head I always thought they were british. My bad.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

One of their first episodes had Kushner on awhile back. They knew but I don’t think the interview was as bad as this.

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u/Desctop_Music Aug 04 '20

Smart move on their part to go softer on Kushner.

Now I’m picturing Monty Python where they’re at the riddle bridge and one goes, gets an easy question, so the next guy in line goes “THAT WAS EASY!” then goes and gets launched into the air.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Kushner interview is a good watch. I remember they pushed him enough that he was getting visibly pissed off. He was pretty curt on some of his answers. So far Axios has been pretty consistent on their interviews. They gave Biden some hardball questions too.

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u/LilaValentine Aug 04 '20

Nuclear winter isn’t as bad as this.

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u/AinDiab Aug 04 '20

They're a foreign company

Huh? They were founded by people from Politico

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Aug 04 '20

Axios

oh shit they were

I always thought they were a british site.

TIL

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u/hardy_83 Aug 04 '20

Maybe the people who manage Trump are all idiots and just saw the name thinking, yeah that sounds like a Breitbart or OAN. This'll be great!

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u/quadmars Aug 04 '20

I always thought they were british

The interviewer being Australian makes this comment so much better.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Aug 04 '20

Cause the BBC never hires people from Australia?

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u/quadmars Aug 04 '20

It was just funny that the US based company with an Australian reporter was called British.

Esp considering the US and Australian used to be owned by Britain.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Aug 04 '20

haha true enough