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From the Daily Wire: The Washington Post, among the myriad of news outlets that have not asked a single question of Vice President Kamala Harris since she was anointed the Democratic presidential nominee, criticized Elon Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump on X, carping that Musk asked “softball questions.”
According to X, the interview and the discussion that revolved around it generated nearly 1 billion views.
The Post, which commonly repeats Democratic talking points, titled their piece, “Trump returns to X with technical glitches, softball questions from Musk.”
Musk explained the technical glitches before the interview got going, stating, “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
“The joint appearance was also a high-profile embarrassment for Musk’s X,” the Washington Post claimed.
The Post accused Musk of going easy on Trump and slammed him for letting Trump speak about illegal immigration. The paper wrote:
Musk billed the conversation with Trump as “unscripted with no limits on subject matter.” But during much of the discussion, he focused on comfortable topics for Trump, such as undocumented immigration. He also allowed the former president to deliver his preferred talking points and a stream of false statements, giving the chat some of the hallmarks of Trump’s signature campaign rallies.
Donald Trump’s much anticipated conversation on the social media platform X with owner Elon Musk was marred by technical errors Monday evening, starting more than 40 minutes late as more than a million users tuned in to the event. https://t.co/ZBQOVn5B4D
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 13, 2024
Earlier on Monday, a Washington Post reporter literally asked during a White House press briefing if Joe Biden could intervene to STOP the planned interview, under the guise of preventing the “spread of misinformation.”
Curtis Houck of Newsbusters provided a video and transcript of the jaw-dropping request:
The Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson: “One more, @ElonMusk is slated to interview [@realDonaldTrump] tomorrow — tonight on — on @X. I don’t know if the president is going to — feel free to say if he is or not — but I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue. It’s a — you know, it’s an America issue. What role does the White House or the President have any sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of inter — intervening in that. Some of that was about campaign misinformation, but you know it’s a wider thing, right?”
KJP: “Yeah, no, I mean, you’ve heard us talk about this many times from here about the responsibilities that social media platforms have when it comes to misinformation, disinformation. I don’t have anything to read out from here about specific ways that we’re working on it, but we believe that that they have the responsibility. These are private companies, so we’re also mindful of that too, but look — it is — I think it is incredibly important to call that out as you’re — you’re doing. I just don’t have any specifics on what we have been doing internally as it relates to the interviews, not something that I’m tracking, and I’m sure the President’s not tracking it either.”
WATCH:
The Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson: “One more, @ElonMusk is slated to interview [@realDonaldTrump] tomorrow — tonight on — on @X. I don’t know if the president is going to — feel free to say if he is or not — but I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign… pic.twitter.com/zKxJNF1zbf
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024
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