President Trump called into Sean Hannity's show on Thursday night. And it was exactly what you expect. "Hi, Sean," the president said at the start of a 45-minute chat.
NYT's Katie Rogers tweeted: "This interview is Mad Libs. 'No collusion.' 'Two lovers, two sick lovers!' 'One-sided witch hunt.'"
Let me add another: "Dirty cops." At times, Trump literally repeated Hannity's nightly talking points back to him. "This was a coup," Trump said, even though it was not. "This was an attempted overthrow of the United States government." He continued a little while later: "This was an overthrow. And it's a disgraceful thing. I think it's far bigger than Watergate. I think it's possibly the biggest scandal in political history in this country. Maybe beyond political."
Trump says "they owe me an apology"
Per Mediaite's Caleb Howe, Hannity asked Trump, "Do you think the news media in this country and their coverage on this, owes you an apology?" Trump: "Well, they do owe me an apology. A big one. They owe YOU an apology." I know it's easy to dismiss this as typical Trump and Hannity shtick, but millions of people absorb it...
"There's no global mute button..."
Former Obama WH aide/CNN national security analyst Sam Vinograd emailed with her takeaway from the phoner: "There's no global mute button when Trump chooses to go on TV and to broadcast that he bases his official statements on 'hunches' and 'wisdom' (propagated by a shadow cabinet of certain media anchors and commentators) rather than on analysis compiled by his own experts. The President has access to the best information in the world, he just chooses to ignore it."
Sometimes the news is what's not spoken...
CNN's Matthew Hoye notes: "The president was not asked about reports that came out today that North Korea forced the US delegation that arrived in Pyongyang to sign a two million dollar invoice for medical care for the release of detained American student Otto Warmbier."
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- Just posted, from the May issue of Vanity Fair: "Fox's Lachlan Murdoch is in a Trump trap," by Gabriel Sherman... (VF)
Source CNN Reliable Sources
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