Trump Drops Interview Right After Whining About Harris’s Coverage
Donald Trump abruptly backed out of yet another prearranged interview, notifying CNBC that the network’s anticipated sit-down interview with the Republican presidential nominee, scheduled for later this week, would not be happening.The schedule change was revealed by Squawk Box’s conservative-leaning host Joe Kernan, who specified on air Tuesday that “Trump canceled.”Sources that spoke with The Daily Beast noted that the former president had initially accepted the invitation to speak on the business network. Three hosts anchor Squawk Box, one of whom is Andrew Ross Sorkin, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump since his initial 2016 campaign.Instead, Trump has relegated his TV appearances to friendlier, more sycophantic networks, including Fox News, whose anchor Maria Bartiromo interviewed the former president over the weekend. Bartiromo did not interrupt or correct Trump when he claimed that the real Election Day threat is the “enemy from within” while suggesting that the military should forcibly involve itself in handling the election results.“We have some very bad people,” Trump said on Sunday. “We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the—and it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”But the sudden cancellation echoes Trump’s refusal to appear on 60 Minutes last week, defying a long-held preelection tradition, stretching back to 1968, in which both U.S. presidential nominees participate in sit-down interviews to discuss the finer details of their policy stances.During its Monday night broadcast last week, CBS News’s Scott Pelley said that Trump backed out of his scheduled interview with 60 Minutes at the last minute on the basis that they “would fact-check the interview.” “We fact-check every story,” Pelley said.Meanwhile, Trump has ranted and raved about Vice President Kamala Harris’s media appearances, repeatedly accusing the Democratic presidential nominee of both doing too much and too little by way of press coverage, including actually following through on last week’s 60 Minutes interview.
Donald Trump abruptly backed out of yet another prearranged interview, notifying CNBC that the network’s anticipated sit-down interview with the Republican presidential nominee, scheduled for later this week, would not be happening.
The schedule change was revealed by Squawk Box’s conservative-leaning host Joe Kernan, who specified on air Tuesday that “Trump canceled.”
Sources that spoke with The Daily Beast noted that the former president had initially accepted the invitation to speak on the business network. Three hosts anchor Squawk Box, one of whom is Andrew Ross Sorkin, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump since his initial 2016 campaign.
Instead, Trump has relegated his TV appearances to friendlier, more sycophantic networks, including Fox News, whose anchor Maria Bartiromo interviewed the former president over the weekend. Bartiromo did not interrupt or correct Trump when he claimed that the real Election Day threat is the “enemy from within” while suggesting that the military should forcibly involve itself in handling the election results.
“We have some very bad people,” Trump said on Sunday. “We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the—and it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”
But the sudden cancellation echoes Trump’s refusal to appear on 60 Minutes last week, defying a long-held preelection tradition, stretching back to 1968, in which both U.S. presidential nominees participate in sit-down interviews to discuss the finer details of their policy stances.
During its Monday night broadcast last week, CBS News’s Scott Pelley said that Trump backed out of his scheduled interview with 60 Minutes at the last minute on the basis that they “would fact-check the interview.”
“We fact-check every story,” Pelley said.
Meanwhile, Trump has ranted and raved about Vice President Kamala Harris’s media appearances, repeatedly accusing the Democratic presidential nominee of both doing too much and too little by way of press coverage, including actually following through on last week’s 60 Minutes interview.
