Tag: Jonathan Swan

‘You don’t really believe that do you?’ Axios reporter’s bizarre interview with Lindsey Graham

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Axios reporter Jonathan Swan famously became a meme during an interview with then-President Donald Trump. During an interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Swan questioned the Trump golfing buddy about the future of the GOP and the former president.

Swan asked Graham about encouraging Trump to run again in 2024 when he made it clear that he can’t believe Graham would do something like that.

“I just don’t understand how you could — you don’t really believe that, do you? You’re just BSing so he doesn’t go off and form a third party?” Swan said, frankly. Continue reading.

Many thought Trump’s Axios interview felt like ‘Veep.’ The showrunner says, ‘We’re being outdone regularly.’

Washington Post logoAlmost as soon as President Trump’s tense interview with Axios’s Jonathan Swanaired Monday night, Twitter accounts started comparing it to HBO’s political satire “Veep.”

“It’s like an episode of Veep but real,” tweeted Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.

“’Oh my god it’s just like VEEP!’ I shouted as I plunged to my death,” tweetedcomedian and actor Billy Eichner.

“Yes, this is like a scene from Veep. Except on Veep this scene would have been rewritten after the table read, because a president being this stupid is too gaggy and unrealistic,” tweeted Sam Richardson, who portrayed the honest-to-a-fault Richard Splett on that very show, which ended last year. Continue reading.

Watch Trump’s ’jaw-dropping’ interview with Axios on HBO

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump was interviewed by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan and the clip aired Monday evening on HBO.

There were a number of eyebrow raising exchanges.

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Trump’s Four-Pinocchio interview on Russian bounties

Washington Post logoTrump rarely gets fact-checked on camera, but here we have a good example of an interviewer pressing and prodding on a sensitive topic.

The president has been dismissive of U.S. intelligence reports that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (A “hoax” or “fake news,” Trump says.)

Follow-up questions in a one-on-one setting can expose the strength or weakness of a claim. When asked about reports that he was briefed on the intelligence, and why he didn’t raise the bounties in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump started dissembling in response. Continue reading.