Wolf Blitzer sat down with Fareed Zakaria to discuss Donald Trump’s apparent confusion on Ukraine that was displayed when he discussed it with George Stephanopoulos last week. It seems the media, or at least parts of CNN are beginning to be willing to call Trump out on garbage that falls from his tongue.
Well worth the watch:
A transcript is below the fold.
Wolf Blitzer: Fareed, Donald Trump tweeted this clarification:
When I said in an interview that Putin is “not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down,” I am saying if I am President. Already in Crimea!
He also said that the people of Crimea would rather be with Russia anyway, so what message does it send when the presidential nominee of a party needs to come back [to] clarify his remarks on such a sensitive and volatile issue?
Fareed Zakaria: Well, there’s a pattern there, Wolf. Every time it is demonstrated that Donald Trump is plainly ignorant about some basic public policy issue, some well-known fact, he comes back with a certain bravado and tries to explain it away with a Tweet or a statement. I mean, he did it on Brexit. He did it on the nuclear triad. He did it, really, on how US debt markets work. He thought that Tim Kaine was the governor of NJ, and now with this.
It’s sort of amusing, indeed, to watch how, how is he going to pull it off this time – what is he going to, you know, argue. Usually he adds that the press hates him. But there is a term for this kind of thing. This is the mode of a bullshit artist, and, you know, sometimes it’s amusing, it’s entertaining if the guy is trying to sell you a condo or a car, but for a president of the United States, it’s deeply worrying.