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Donald Trump’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists started more than an hour late.

Donald Trump almost didn’t take the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists conference earlier this week because he was terrified of being fact-checked.

The former president appeared on stage Wednesday more than an hour late to take part in a conversation moderated by ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor’s political reporter Kadia Goba. 

Trump quickly complained about the delayed start, saying it had taken half an hour for the NABJ to get their sound equipment to work. Apparently, he was trying to get ahead of something else. 

While there were some audio problems, “the bigger problem was his threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on. He did not want to be fact-checked, but we could not let him on the stage without fact-checking,” NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios in a story published Friday.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not the first time he's complained about technical stuff. But being a fearful little weirdo about facts getting in the way of his talking points is also on brand.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blaming technical issues is a seemingly reasonable explanation people wouldn't really think twice about as long as it's not an excuse being used all the time.

However, being exposed as lying about that brings every previous reasonable claim into question. Were there actually issues then? Or was it just Trump's fee-fees being hurt because he was scared?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

He likes to blame his going off script on bad teleprompters not working right. He uses it as an excuse to not pay vendors. He's just a creep who likes to use it as an excuse for literally everything he can.

Because he's a weak weird little liar who can't handle the slightest amount of push back.