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Thu May 2, 2024, 02:10 PM May 2

Local News Reporter Completely Breaks Trump's Brain During Interview - Farron Balanced



Donald Trump's brain appeared to completely short circuit during an interview with a local news reporter this week. Trump began talking about the crime rate in Venezuela and how they were sending all their "criminals" to America, but when the host asked where that information came from, all Trump could say was "uhhhhh..." The former President was caught in a lie and he knew it, and all it took was a simple question about where he got his information. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Donald Trump actually gave an interview to a local Fox station in Detroit this week. And, uh, it was quite the site to behold, not only did Donald Trump rattle off a completely false set, uh, set of statistics, but he was taken aback when the reporter actually asked him, where'd you get these numbers? And he had absolutely no response. So here's the clip. In case you haven't seen it, Donald Trump just completely malfunctioning when asked where he's getting his numbers from. Take a look.

Well, what about the sixth week ban? No one want, no one seems to want that in the liberal circles or even the moderate circles here in Michigan.

That's right. Are they're gonna vote against that? They will. I, in my opinion, that's what they'll do. One stat before we go, Venezuela was very crime ridden. They announced the other day, 72% reduction in crime in the last year. You know why? They moved all their criminals from Venezuela right into the good old USA and Biden. Let 'em do it. It's a disgrace. But

Sir, where are those numbers coming from?

Uh, I guess I get 'em from the papers in this case. I think it's a federal statement or, well, they're coming actually from Venezuela. They're coming from Venezuela.

We'll have to check on that. But,

Uh, for the record, because I think everybody needs to know who that reporter is because he did such an amazing job there. Uh, that is reporter Ru Raj for, again, a local Fox News station in Detroit, and he just delivered a masterclass on how to handle Donald Trump. Trump was not expecting that at all. Right? Like, um, okay, so you just rattled off some, some statistics here. Where'd those come from? Uh, from the papers, I mean, not from the paper. Uh, from, from Venezuela. Yeah. That's, that's who did that. And believe it or not, that's also a lie. Uh, Venezuela has not reported a 68, 60 7% decrease in crime. They've reported a 25% decrease in crime. Like, that's the actual number from the Venezuelan government. And even that, uh, officials from across the world say is totally inaccurate. Um, but here's the thing. That's how you handle Trump. That's how you do it. It's simple. It's not adversarial. It is what a reporter is supposed to do. Donald Trump is rattling off statistics. You have every right as a journalist to say, oh, where'd you get those numbers?

And that's when he fell apart. And he fell apart. Not because he wasn't expecting it, he definitely wasn't expecting it, but he fell apart because he's not used to that either. He's not prepared to answer questions like that because typically Donald Trump only goes into friendly media outlets where nobody's gonna push back on all of the BS that he says. I guarantee you, moving forward, his campaign's gonna be like, listen, we gotta make sure we can control the situation whenever you go on tv, so we don't have another, uh, moment from you where it looks like your brain just completely malfunctioned and you didn't even know how to speak for a few seconds. But I, I cannot get, give enough credit to that reporter. There again, Trump is not used to this. He is used to being able to go out there, not have any pushback from reporters, or at least not any pushback that he can't ignore.

He goes out there, he spouts crazy things, and then he leaves. And then sometimes the networks will do a fact check on him. Sometimes they won't. Most of the time they will not, but he doesn't have to face it if he doesn't want to. And in that interview right there, he had to face it. He had to answer that tough question of where did this come from? And that's why he lied multiple times in his idiotic response there. Like, it's from the papers, I mean, not the papers, it's from Venezuela. No. Neither of those answers are correct. And I wish more reporters had the courage to ask this man this simple question, where'd you get that info? Hmm, that doesn't seem right. We'll have to look into that.
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RUN FOR YOUR LIVES THE VENEZUELAN IMMIGRANTS ARE COMING..... from ...uh .. I dunno.... MagaSmash May 2 #1
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