re: #15 BeachDem

You know Maggie was in on the interview when crap like this makes it into the story:

Over the course of 50 minutes, the often-fiery Mr. Trump demonstrated his more amiable side, joking about holding hands with the president of France and musing about having a military parade down a main avenue in Washington. He took satisfaction that unemployment has fallen and stock markets have risen to record highs on his watch.

At one point, his daughter, Ivanka, arrived at the doorway with her daughter Arabella, who ran to her grandfather and gave him a kiss. He greeted the six-year-old girl as “baby,” then urged her to show the reporters her ability to speak Chinese. She obliged.

“Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative”
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To me, those paragraphs are a brief interlude in the ‘HOLY SHIT!’ that is the rest of the interview. If I were his lawyers, I’d be checking and rechecking whether the retainer check had cleared, because they’ve got to be reading this and shaking their heads.