President Donald Trump took the bait
Jan 25, 2018, 6:34 AM | Updated: 8:39 am
President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
(AP Photo/Michael Probst)
As prestigious as it is, the White House can be a tedious beat for a reporter.
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The facilities are cramped, everyone’s reporting the same story, and you rarely get anything substantive. But Donald Trump has changed all that.
“Anything can happen at the Trump White House, OK?”
Like, for example, you could be in the White House Chief of Staff’s office getting a routine background briefing, when suddenly the door opens.
“Who comes in? The President of the United States Donald Trump — and just stands in the doorway.”
Was he bored, was he lost, was he lonely? We don’t know. But in any case, Major Garrett starts asking questions along with everybody else, and gets the president to say he’s willing to be questioned under oath by Robert Mueller!
“Oh I would do an under oath.”
Under oath! In which case any lie would subject him to perjury. Which was one of the two impeachment charges brought against Bill Clinton.
“The President of the United States took the bait and said, ‘I would do it under oath.'”
What president does that? That’s the big untold story here. The press doesn’t hate Donald Trump. He is the Golden Goose.
For a reporter, it doesn’t get any better than what happened Wednesday.
Well, unless the president’s lawyer were suddenly to appear in the same doorway with a roll of duct tape, but now I’m just getting greedy.
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