Sorry but you say there are ways to ask the questions without being combative and get the answers.
please cite examples of that with Trump or GTFOH with that.
Trump is always combative and lying and lazy in his answers particularly when dealing with a reporter he feels he can bully or walk over.
I don't know your posting to call you a Trump bot or not but you are certainly a Trump apologist here. You have no issue tearing apart Abby for asking proper and rightful questions and you do not say a WORD about Trumps reply. Nice. You belong with Inga saying what Trump says or does ie irrelevant.
We've interacted in the Mayberry. We've usually been in agreement there. Haven't interacted much in the War Room, but we're usually in agreement here from what i've read of your stuff.
But, yea, this? I think people are being too partisan on this issue, and focusing more on Trump's personality.
Trump is an asshole. But the media is not doing a good job.
I haven't read Inga's exact statement, but it's not that I think Trump says is
completely irrelevant. Clearly, he is the cause of the more hostile environment that we're seeing between the media and the White House. But the media should be "untriggerable".
The media is supposed to be impartial. They aren't supposed to get into fights. They are supposed to ask questions and get answers. Information is all they should care about. Let the commentators and opinionists do their thing on their shows, but the guys at the press conferences should be sticking to the facts.
You're looking for some tit-for-tat, or equivalency where I don't think it's really relevant. It shouldn't exist, imo. I don't like Trump's behavior. I'm not a "Trump apologist". I said he's unpresidential, and a disgrace to the office. But that doesn't mean I think that the media should try to match his unprofessionalism. It isn't even effective if they're actually looking for answers. It just gets them some headlines, and that's it.
I see the president as a man, and the media as an institution. In a democracy, we aren't always going to like or agree with the elected leaders, but the press shouldn't change because of them.
And do you really think there isn't a more effective way of these reporters to ask their questions?
Abby was basically asking Trump if he was going to get his new AG to do some shady shit to get Mueller to back off. I mean, really? "Are you going to tell him to reign in Mueller"? That's a shit question. It could have been worded in a better way that wouldn't have gotten Trump to answer the way he did.
AGAIN, I'm not defending Trump--but, the media isn't doing anything to help the situation by asking these poor ass questions.