Sometimes a president will sit down for an interview that reaches a relatively small audience because he wants to speak directly to that particular audience. Sometimes, it seems, a president sits down for an interview reaching a small audience because the person conducting the interview is one of the hosts of his favorite morning cable-news program and that president knows that he can make obviously false claims without the host offering any pushback.
So it was that on Wednesday morning, President Trump called in to “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade’s radio program, where Kilmeade offered Trump the opportunity to do a spoken-word version of his various tweets. On subject after subject, Trump reiterated obviously untrue arguments and Kilmeade waited patiently to move on to the next subject.
