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‘Just embarrassing’: Jake Tapper roasted en masse over ‘pathetic’ Trump interview
Trump Didn’t Need a Shout. CNN Handed Him the Room.The Power Was In The ChairThe source is about a televised phone interview in which Donald Trump refused to answer questions, steered the conversation anyway, and faced little pushback from Jake Tapper. That is the basic event. The political fact is sharper: the president was the one with leverage, and CNN behaved like it knew it.Tapper Is Not The Main CharacterA weak interview host is not the central scandal. Tapper’s performance matters because it revealed how easily a major network can surrender its own authority, but the real…
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