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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23108955

“I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.”

As [NABJ president Ken] Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    51·
    9 months ago

    Refuses to go if fact checked. Provides a bullshit excuse for not going, gets immediately fact checked about it.

    Suck it, Damn Old Trump

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      4·
      9 months ago

      It’s so fucking annoying that the propagandists have already brainwashed his base into believing that fact checking is just “media lying” so they actively want Trump to refuse any fact checking…

      We see it for the shit it is, and they like it. It doesn’t hurt him at all.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      Trump won over a sizeable amount of black voters (or arguably Biden lost a historical amount; likely both) as well as Hispanic voters. Racists are not likely to change their vote from Trump. Racialized people who began leaning towards Trump might if his racism is spotlighted, and that seems to be exactly what’s happening.

      Trump is the leading candidate for president of the United States. He already has a platform and is going to make the front page. Stop being obtuse.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    13·
    9 months ago

    Kinda off topic, but I appreciate how nice and clean Axios is without an adblocker, and how concise and bait free the articles (mostly) are.

    I don’t know how they stay sane and still make money, when the rest of the internet is worse than the Idiocracy TV.

    • Bgugi@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      It’s not quite the self-report that you think it is. Refusing to accept fact checking is a rational decision in the hypothetical framework that the participant is being honest and the checker is unreliable or dishonest.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    9·
    9 months ago

    I can find some comfort that at least inviting both candidates was the norm and the invite extended to Trump wasn’t a special one.

    However, if anyone there was expecting anything other than the Trump campaign causing problems and blaming the hosts for it, I don’t know what to say to them.

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    5·
    9 months ago
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  • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Huh. “Audio issues” must mean " I said things and they didn’t instantly accept them as facts".

    What a way that live.