I came across a Fox News headline on Threads which claimed that President Trump had answered more than 1,000 questions in his first month back in office.
Needless to say, I was skeptical.
Yet George Condon, Jr. of the National Journal claims that President Trump answered 1,009 questions between January 20th and February 19th as compared to President Biden answering 141 questions over the same period in 2021.
Evidence please. Condon does not provide a link listing the 1009 questions asked, who asked the questions, when they were asked and Trump's response much less the 141 questions posed to Biden. So, unless I see this evidence, I call shenanigans.
But let us assume for argument's sake that Condon is telling the truth and that Trump answered 1009 questions during his 30 days in office versus 141 for Biden in his 30 days in office. It is still all the more reason to want to know who asked the questions, when they were posed and Trump's response and ditto for Biden.
I suspect a significant number of these questions posed to Trump were asked by the Fox News, Newsmax and Gateway Pundits of the world and thus of the softball variety. I also suspect that Trump's response to most of these questions was complete and utter bullshit.
Condon gives the game away when he writes:
On his fourth day in office in 2017, he chided reporters in the Oval Office, telling them, “You’re not supposed to ask questions.” Now, he invites reporters to pelt him with as many as they have.
If President Trump is so prepared to take on all comers, then why is the White House now handpicking who is allowed to ask him questions instead of the White House Correspondents Association?
President Trump could answer 50,000 questions over the next four years. The quantity of questions is no substitute for the quality of questions. The quality of Trump's answers lay in his truthfulness. President Trump answering 50,000 questions means nothing if all we get is 50,000 lies.
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