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Donald Trump said yesterday at a Mar-a-Lago news conference that he would take a couple of questions.
By the time he finished speaking, he had gone on for an hour.
Trump made news on a dozen topics, a reminder of the freewheeling approach in which even among journalists who can’t stand him, the incoming president is a newsmaking machine who provides headlines around the clock, setting the terms of debate – in a sharp contrast with the reclusive Joe Biden.
Trump also deflected a few questions that he absolutely should not have answered, such as strategy on Ukraine and whether he’d retaliate against Iran.
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I was a bit surprised, though, that he launched an attack on the press, though, since this contradicted his recent remarks about reaching out to even hostile news outlets, as long as they treat him fairly.
This took place two days after ABC and George Stephanopoulos apologized to Trump to settle a defamation, agreeing to donate $15 million to a presidential library or foundation, plus another million bucks to cover his legal fees. This averted what could have been an embarrassing and grueling deposition by its star anchor.
The network’s problem is that Stephanopoulos had repeatedly said Trump had been found liable for “rape,” repeating the word about 10 times, in the E. Jean Carroll civil suit, when the jury held him liable for “sexual abuse.”
While the judge said this would commonly be understood as rape, they are legally different in New York. You don’t agree to 15 million bucks unless you think you don’t have much of a case.
The New York Post editorial board wrote that President-elect Trump did not press ABC host George Stephanopoulos as hard as he could have in a recent defamation case. (Getty Images)
While left-leaning pundits are accusing ABC of “caving” to Trump, the network made a different judgment call.
Trump ripped the media as “very corrupt” and ticked off more…
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