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DONALD TRUMP: ABC Interview/Chrisette Michele Played/Local School Board Member & Trump Tweets
In his first network TV interview since becoming president, Donald Trump fielded questions from ABC's David Muir on such topics as immigration, his planned border wall, voter fraud and torture. During the hour-long special, Trump mostly stuck to issues he hammered home during his campaign. He continued to say that he would construct a border wall, but now he admitted that Mexico won't pay for it -- at least initially. He said U.S. taxpayers will finance the wall, but he promised that "we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico." As for his unproven claims about voter fraud, Trump said that an investigation will be launched because "if you look at voter registration, you look at the dead people that are registered to vote who vote, you look at people that are registered in two states, you look at all of these different things that are happening with registration." In other parts of the interview, Trump said torture "absolutely" works, claimed the media tried "to to demean me unfairly" with its inauguration coverage and all the networks aside from Fox News covered his CIA speech "very inaccurately." (ABC News)
* There are reports that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, Trump's treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin and his daughter Tiffany were registered to vote in two states STORY
CHRISETTE MICHELE: Major Regrets After Inauguration
Michele says agreeing to perform for President Trump had major consequences. She says the decision even caused her loved ones to turn their backs.
Chrisette tells Billboard that she spoke to an event organizer and said point blank, “My family has disowned me… If you decide to Google me, you’ll see that America is writing about me in their newspapers. I'm the black poster child for discord right now and he’s not going to shake my hand? So no, I didn’t get to meet him.”
- The decision to perform also cost her a chance to get music used in Spike Lee’s upcoming Do The Right Thing Netflix series.
- Every decision you make has consequences. Some bigger than other. Saying yes is the easy part -- it’s living with what happens after.
- She might have anticipated backlash but probably didn't expect it to be this bad.
- Michele's team also claims that they tried to charge her "usual rate of $250,000" but was told the Inauguration Committee didn't have the budget and she would have to play at a discount.
School board Chair Anna Sephard has since spoken to Fox 17 News, saying she spoke to Buggs over the weekend and Buggs now says she should not have used her school twitter handle to make the comments. Sephard promises it will not happen again.
Other members of the board came to Buggs’ defense. Will Pinkston, Nashville School Board member Representing District 7 told Fox 17 News people are free to speak their minds.
It’s insane the way Trump and his supporters try to repress the media and other critics from speaking the truth, when they were extremely outspoken (and wrong and hateful) during the previous Presidency.
Let’s all show our support for Christiane Buggs!
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Comment by Mahogany on February 25, 2017 at 2:39am
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I'm serious don't it look like a clown? And people take it serious! I mean really!!
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