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Trump
canceling interviews because he's 'exhausted' - report
Donald Trump
has uncharacteristically been backing out of media interviews lately, and
Politico has learned the reason why: the former president is “exhausted”.
Here’s what
they found:
It happened
just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC’s
“Squawk Box” — and that’s on the heels of him backing out of a “60 Minutes”
episode earlier this month.
Why does
this keep happening? Another outlet was recently given an explanation by
Trump’s team for why their own interview wasn’t coming to fruition: exhaustion.
The Trump
campaign had spent weeks in conversations with The Shade Room, a site that
draws a largely young and Black audience — a demographic where Trump has been
making inroads. It hosted an interview with Kamala Harris just last week.
But no
interview has materialized. As Shade Room staff began feeling that feet were
being dragged inside Trump’s campaign, they pressed earlier this week to set a
date for a sit-down.
In response,
a Trump adviser told Shade Room producers that Trump was “exhausted and
refusing [some] interviews but that could change” at any time, according to two
people familiar with the conversations.
Trump’s
spokeswoman has denied the report:
Trump
national press secretary Karoline Leavitt, while making clear she wasn’t part
of the back-and-forth for the Shade Room interview, said last night that the
idea that Trump was exhausted “is unequivocally false.”
“President
Trump is running laps around Kamala Harris on the campaign trail,” Leavitt
said. “And has done media interviews every day this week. He has more energy
and a harder work ethic than anyone in politics.”
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