Trump Stalled Disastrous Interview With Black Journos With Demand That There Be “No Live Fact-Checking”

Axios reports:

Moments before former President Trump took the stage at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday, the organization’s president was called back to address an issue. Trump did not want to be fact-checked live and was refusing to go on stage, NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios.

“[Trump’s team] said, ‘Well, can you not fact check? He’s not going to take the stage if you fact-check,'” Lemon said. The Q&A with the GOP presidential nominee was delayed more than an hour before he eventually joined a panel of Black journalists. At the time, President Trump blamed the delay on audio problems.

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Per Lemon, the NABJ was preparing a statement about why Trump would not be appearing when Trump abruptly walked onto the stage.

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