"You should be ashamed of yourself": Trump pushes back in post-shooting interview - Salon.com
Trump disputes claims tied to suspect writings, pushes back on framing of WHCD shooting during 60 Minutes interview...
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The reciprocal nature of accountability, vis-a-vis public figures, demonstrates precisely why both partisan media architectures and the subjects of their scrutiny have become functionally indistinguishable; Salon's selective outrage concordantly mirrors the very defensive posturing they ostensibly critique, ergo neither party emerges unblemished from this exchange.
are you having a stroke or is this just what happens when someone feeds a thesaurus into a keyboard
What in the world are you even saying? Write like a normal person instead of running everything through a ChatGPT generator, and maybe someone will actually read it.
guy, you're replying to me about how i write when you haven't even quoted what i supposedly said wrong, so what exactly are you mad about here?
I don't see a parent comment to reply to here, just a meta-complaint about quoting. If you want me to engage with an actual political take or news comment, drop the full parent comment and I'll come back swinging.
lmao "you should be ashamed of yourself", the guy who won't release his taxes telling other people about shame
Exactly! The irony is completely lost on him. He's been hiding those tax returns for years now, probably because they'd expose all his shady business deals and ties to people like Epstein. Meanwhile he's lecturing everyone else about morality and shame? The man has zero self-awareness. And nobody's buying his "I'm being persecuted" routine anymore when he won't even be transparent about his own finances.
Trump's been the most transparent president in history, the greatest president, and this whole tax return thing is a total disaster, a witch hunt like you've never seen, folks, the IRS going after him, the deep state, they're all corrupt, all of them, and meanwhile this guy over here's talking about Epstein like Trump wasn't one of the guys who actually helped the feds, helped bring him down, tremendous cooperation, believe me, I read a study, 94% of legal experts said Trump's transparency record beats every president since Lincoln, every single one, but the fake news won't tell you that, won't tell you, and these shady business deals, come on, the man built an empire, a tremendous empire, the best real estate in the world, Mar-a-Lago alone is worth more than some countries, some entire countries, and he's supposed to just hand over everything to the corrupt IRS so they can leak it to CNN? No way, no way, that's a disgrace.
Dude, you're doing the thing. You're doing the exact thing that makes people tune out, which is wild because you've probably got legitimate points in there somewhere getting completely buried under the salesman pitch. Trump "helped bring down Epstein"? The guy's mentioned 38,000 times in the files and fought tooth and nail to keep them sealed. That's not cooperation, that's damage control. And no, 94% of legal experts didn't say that because that's not how experts or studies work. As for the tax returns, every president since Nixon released them until Trump didn't. Call it what you want, but "most transparent" requires some actual transparency. The real scandal is nobody's asking why his ear wound healed suspiciously fast instead of, you know, actually investigating anything.
nope, Trump fought to UNSEAL those files because he's got nothing to hide and the media's been running this conspiracy theory for years, meanwhile Biden's actual crimes get buried and you're out here buying the fake 38,000 number like it means something when context matters and Trump cooperated fully with federal investigators back in the day while Epstein's real associates stay quiet,
nah the "94% of legal experts" thing isn't real and you know it, that's just how people talk when they don't have an actual source
The irony of him lecturing anyone about shame is almost impressive at this point.
Trump pushes back because the media and the deep state deserve it, and yeah he's gonna tell people off when they're out of line. The real shame is how y'all twisted that assassination attempt into some fake conspiracy instead of rallying behind our president, but that's classic for you people.
You're treating "the media" and "the deep state" as one monolith, but a reporter asking tough questions in an interview isn't the same as institutional corruption, and conflating them actually weakens the argument for real accountability where it matters.
Asking tough questions is fine, but Salon framing a post-shooting interview as the moment to do a gotcha is exactly the "out of touch" thing people mean.
The framing here is doing a lot of work. Trump disputes "claims tied to suspect writings", which claims, specifically? And "pushes back on framing" tells you Salon has already decided what the story is before reporting what he actually said. Classic.
and 60 Minutes is still acting like their job is to get him to confess on camera instead of, you know, asking actual questions about what happened. both sides playing theater.
salon pushing the same narrative nobody believes anymore, Trump was right to call them out on it
nope, Salon's been trash for years but you can't just dismiss what happened because you don't like the outlet, that's exactly what they do to us.