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Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden rejects Chris Wallace interview after Trump calls him ‘incompetent’
2020-07-28
[NYPOST] Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
rejected "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace’s request for an interview, fanning the flames of criticism that the former vice president is afraid to face questioning

"In our interview last week with President Trump, he questioned whether his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, could handle a similar encounter. This week, we asked the Biden campaign for an interview and they said the former vice president was not available," Wallace said on his show Sunday.

"We’ll keep asking every week," he added.

The statement by Wallace came one week after Trump’s wide-ranging interview on his program, during which the commander-in-chief questioned whether the former vice president would be able to handle such hard-hitting questions.

The president told the Fox News host that Biden would be "crying for mommy" if forced to answer the same kinds of questions from Wallace.

"Let Biden sit through an interview like this, he’ll be on the ground crying for mommy. He’ll say ’Mommy, mommy, please take me home,’" the president said.

"Well, we’ve asked him for an interview, sir," Wallace replied.

"He can’t do an interview. He’s incompetent," Trump said in response.

Immediately after that interview, Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield released a statement addressing claims made during the hour-long sitdown.

"For over a year, Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
and his campaign have cycled through the same self-defeating attacks against Joe Biden and have failed to get traction on a single one.

"President Trump gave it yet another go on ’Fox News Sunday’ this morning. He lurched from smear to smear, all while being forcefully corrected on most, including the lie that Joe Biden wouldn’t keep the American people safe and supports defunding the police — which has been fact-checked into oblivion over the last month," Bedingfield said.

She neglected, however, to address the issue of Biden making his own appearance on the program.

One day after his interview with Trump, Wallace told fellow Fox News host Bret Baier that he believed Biden should put himself up to the same scrutiny and sit down for an interview.

"The fact is, the president is out there. He’s out there in this broiling heat with me for an hour, took all the questions," he said in an appearance on Baier’s program last Monday, "You can like his answers or dislike them, but he had answers, and Joe Biden hasn’t faced that kind of scrutiny, hasn’t faced that kind of exposure."

"You’ve got to feel at some point he’s going to come out from the basement. He’s going to have to be more exposed and take questions just as tough as the ones I asked this president."

A spokesperson for the Biden campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Biden has faced criticism in recent months from President Trump and others of avoiding media scrutiny by making fewer appearances and when appearing not taking questions.
Posted by:Fred

#4  ^ twoo, dat. Joe's gonna get Corona'd sometime around sunset. September-ish. Then Wookie to the wescue.
Posted by: Lumpy Mussolini7603   2020-07-28 18:20  

#3  Too early in the morning for your second scenario, Lumpy.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-07-28 09:36  

#2  stalking horse for kamal-Ho

or Da Wookie
Posted by: Lumpy Mussolini7603   2020-07-28 08:15  

#1  Biden's handlers know Wallichinski would lob softballs only and Joe wiffing on them would be a bad look.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-07-28 07:34  

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