“Donald Trump has largely avoided interviews where he will be fact-checked in real time. But on Sunday, he sat for an interview on Fox News, where he was challenged directly on some of his most glaring falsehoods of the campaign,” the New York Times reports.
“The exchanges that resulted provided a case study in the tactics the former president uses when confronted with facts that contradict his statements.”
“Mr. Trump repeatedly denied knowledge of information that has long been publicly available, questioned the sources and then pivoted away to an unrelated topic.”
“On one point, though, he stuck by his words with no deflection or equivocation: He absolutely believed, he said, that his political opponents were an ‘enemy from within’ who posed a greater threat than foreign adversaries.”
