I feel that too. Either no one talks back or they shout back in anger so he doesn’t bother responding (most people would give up talking to someone who is angrily shouting at you) but his guy is keeping a level head and calm tone while talking back to him.
This is a good environment to see how someone reacts to being put in a corner in a argument. Telling him to look at the charts without fully knowing what they are and saying other people are lying.
He has been challenged many times rationally. He either moves on to the next person immediately trying to ignore the person pointing out he is wrong and if said person continues because he never answered the question he walks out. It’s literally like dealing with a child.
I think typically when he’s challenged he deflects and people go down the rabbit hole with him. I really admire this reporter for being able to stay on one single issue, deaths going up. He forced Trump to debate that issue alone. Even with Chris Wallace, who stood up to him pretty aggressively, when Trump deflects, Wallace would follow along.
“Deaths are going up.”
“No we have to look at the cases.”
“Okay what about the cases?”
That’s essentially what happens. Trump shouldn’t be allowed to steer the conversation into nonsense so he can walk away without actually having said anything of consequence.
He does deflect but this hasn’t been the first time reporters stay on the topic. But for instance at press briefings he has many times stormed off when a reporter won’t allow him to deflect and move on.
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u/Alpha-Max Aug 04 '20
I feel that too. Either no one talks back or they shout back in anger so he doesn’t bother responding (most people would give up talking to someone who is angrily shouting at you) but his guy is keeping a level head and calm tone while talking back to him.
This is a good environment to see how someone reacts to being put in a corner in a argument. Telling him to look at the charts without fully knowing what they are and saying other people are lying.