That Q&A event with former President Trump hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) was mostly meh, but now that it’s over and the news media are still moaning about it, let’s look at how they’re lying.
Axios on Friday ran a ridiculous story claiming that a lengthy delay in the event’s start was Trump’s fault for insisting that he not be “fact-checked” on stage, a term that now means being interrupted by trifling reporters who wish to insert their own worthless opinions.
NABJ President Ken Lemon told the site, “[Trump’s team] said, ‘Well, can you not fact check? He’s not going to take the stage if you fact-check.’”
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told me in a text that there was no hold up over “fact checking,” which NAJB had agreed beforehand wouldn’t be part of the Q&A, though the amateur organization ultimately reneged and ended up posting live rebuttals to Trump’s comments on its website. Cheung said that the reason for the “close to 40 minutes” delay was due to “audio/technical issues” that “were fixed by NAJB.”
In that Axios article, Lemon admitted to the “audio problems.”
As for the ever-so-irksome “live fact checking,” Trump was in fact interrupted and disputed multiple times by the event’s moderators. (What’s it called again when you disprove an inaccuracy or false hood?)
When Trump said that presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris “suddenly” claims to be black, Rachel Scott of ABC News blurted, “She has always identified as a black
