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It’s hard to understand why the President of the United States, Donald Trump, a Republican who has been libeled by the legacy media more than any other public figure in history, would agree to do an interview with ABC News. It’s even harder to understand why, if he’s insistent upon doing that interview, he would agree to do it with Terry Moran, who is a third-tier figure at that dying propaganda outlet.
ABC and the other network news operations, along with CNN and MSNBC, are dead brands which would wither away completely if Trump and other Republicans would simply quit engaging with them. Because by engaging with them, Trump lends them a legitimacy with the public that none of them deserve any longer. So, doing interviews like this one amounts to an unforced error of the kind Trump has made an unfortunate habit of doing.