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Former president Donald Trump intends to skip the first Republican presidential primary debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday and instead plans to post a prerecorded interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that will be released that night, according to a person briefed on the matter.

Trump advisers said the interview had already been recorded. It is not yet clear where the interview will appear. Carlson has started a show on X, formerly called Twitter, but Trump sees the platform as a rival to Truth Social, which he helped create.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He refused to sign the required agreement that everyone who participated in the debates will support the eventual nominee.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so, he isn't really 'skipping' it.. he's not wanted there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't qualify for the debates.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Because he wouldn't agree to support the eventual nominee if it's not him.

It's a requirement for the debates according to the top comment in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, he’s wanted. Both Fox and the RNC have been trying to convince him to go for at least the last month.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol he can't even do it live on-air because they know he'll slip and say something incriminating.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

This is 100% his lawyers keeping him on a short leash.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lmao, called it! As soon as they announced the "interview", I said

letting tv cameras you don't control show the nation see how fat, sallow, and stressed you look, or hearing the dementia-and-pill addled word salad come out of your mouth.

I wouldn't be surprised if they pre-recorded it, either.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I remember reading that and agreeing lol

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump is use to being able to lie and not have people correct him. He also likes people agreeing with him.
Trump is terrified of Christie. I don't think "fat" jabs from Trump with stop Christie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Dude looks like he gets puffed out opening an umbrella, I'd love to see him try

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

A taped video. Where they have cut out the failures and bumblings that would expose Trump as the idiot that he is. Even with a friendly journalist like Tucker, who will only ask pre-approved questions. And hope that Trump remembers the correct answers his lawyers taught him, or they'll have to retake the scene.

Way more interesting that whatever junk they broadcast would be the (complete) blooper wheel.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Taped? What a lazy coward.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Oh my God that's so pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump knows Tucker will give him easier questions most likely.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Trump knows Tucker will give him easier questions most likely.

I'd bet big money that Tucker will give him only the questions Trump has written for him to ask, AND that the wording and other details will make it very clear this is so. I'm looking forward to being amused by the clips from it that will show up the next day.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Q: Mr Trump you were the best president everyone says it, the other day someone came to me and said that Mr Trump was the best president, perfect President, just like his phonecalls were perfect - they tried to say it wasn't a perfect phone call, crooked Hillary and sleepy Joe said it wasn't perfect but it was a perfect phonecall, was it a perfect phone call? Everyone says it was perfect except sleepy Joe's son Hunter's laptop...

A: the election was stolen by very bad men, very bad, not as bad as hunter bidden and crooked Hillary but very bad...

I bet he can't even answer his own questions

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You're missing the party where the man that approached Tucker had tears in his eyes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What a pussy lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He's having an interview with the guy who hates him 'passionately?'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I hope is has dj Khaled hype and blow horns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Trump sees the platform as a rival to Truth Social, which he helped create.

Yeah I'm going to need some proof of that. There's no way he helped.