Former President Donald Trump wasted little time this week going off on British tabloid journalist Piers Morgan in what appears to be a hostile interview.
Morgan shared a clip on Twitter late on Wednesday that only showed snippets of his interview with Trump and it seems like things got heated quickly.
At one point, Morgan told Trump in the face-to-face interview that he “lost” the 2020 presidential election.
Trump shot back: “Only a fool would think that.”
“You think I’m a fool?” Morgan snidely asked.
“I do now, yes,” Trump shot back.
WATCH:
****BREAKING NEWS****
👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/WdJnPJyMwG— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 20, 2022
Soon after the interview went viral on social media, Trump’s team provided audio to Breitbart News that seem to show that Morgan and his team deceptively edited the interview video to make it appear as he walked out of the interview when he did not.
“This is a pathetic attempt to use President Trump as a way to revive the career of a failed television host,” Taylor Budowich, Trump’s communications director, told Breitbart News. “It is also another example of President Trump being right, as he told Piers Morgan that the host was dishonest to his face, and Piers, for the first time in his life, didn’t disappoint.”
NBC is now to defending Trump— that’s how deceptive, disgusting and appalling @piersmorgan is. For the record, when I interviewed Trump he also said “turn the cameras off” once the interview concluded. Only an absolute desperate hack would misrepresent that statement for ratings. https://t.co/9StBZsxzHq
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2022
Breitbart reported:
But that’s not what happened—not even close. Trump spent more than an hour with Morgan, and the way the promo clip cuts together what it calls “Morgan Versus Trump” moments to promote the interview which will air on this coming Monday night is particularly deceptive. Most of those moments had nothing to do with the election issue at all, and the full audio of the last bit of the interview shows that Trump standing up and walking away and saying “turn the camera off” came after Morgan ended the interview and thanked Trump for a “great interview.”
The audio file obtained by Breitbart News, which is about seven and a half minutes long, begins with Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich interjecting into the middle of the interview to tell Morgan to wrap it up. “We’re an hour in,” Budowich says. “We need to wrap.”
Morgan responds by begging for more time with Trump. “Just a few quick questions and then—” Morgan says. “Thank you,” Budowich responds.
Trump released a statement late on Wednesday night slamming Morgan and his handling of the interview.
“Piers Morgan, like the rest of the Fake News Media, attempted to unlawfully and deceptively edit his long and tedious interview with me,” Trump said. “He wanted to make it look like I walked out on the interview when my time limit of 20 minutes went over by an hour. The good news is that the interview was taped by us as a means of keeping him honest,” Trump said.
“For those who want to make Piers look bad, compare his video promo and how it was doctored to the real thing,” Trump said. “Hopefully they will now be doing some big changes to their final product. It just shows, however, what I have to deal with in the Fake News Media. He went out of his way to deceptively editing an interview and got caught. That is a big story, isn’t it?”
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