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CNN's Jake Tapper Praises Biden and Torpedoes Trump Over Interviews: No Rapid-Fire Falsehoods, No...
CNN’s Jake Tapper Praises Biden and Torpedoes Trump Over Interviews: No Rapid-Fire Falsehoods, No Attacks, More Substance
By Tommy ChristopherDec 4th, 2020, 9:48 am
CNN anchor Jake Tapper contrasted his interview with President-elect Joe Biden and those he has conducted with outgoing President Donald Trump, noting that unlike Biden, Trump would tell a high volume of falsehoods, frequently attack interviewers, and “doesn’t really know what he’s talking about” on substantive issues.
On Friday morning’s edition of New Day, co-anchors John Berman and Alisyn Camerota quizzed Tapper about his recent interview with President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, their first joint interview since winning the White House.
Camerota asked Tapper to compare the experience with that of interviewing Trump, noting that to interview Trump, “you really had to be up on everything because it was an unpredictable experience and you had to make sure that you held his feet to the fire if he was going to make some sort of claim that you knew not to be true.”
Tapper noted that “outgoing President Trump” — a designation Tapper used throughout the segment — “hasn’t given CNN an interview since he became president. So I don’t know what it’s like to interview President Trump, I know what it’s like to interview candidate Trump.”
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