Reporter feuding with Leavitt: 'The president lies' [View all]
HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte, who has feuded with the White House press office in recent days, is defending his reporting on President Trump in response to attacks from the president’s allies over his objectivity.
“The views I have about Donald Trump now are those that have come from my reporting and from my watching him and from my experience. And if I don’t convey my conclusions about Donald Trump to my audience, then I’m failing them,” Dáte said Tuesday during an appearance on CNN.
“I mean, people who are watching CNN, reading Huff Post or The New York Times, doesn’t matter. They shouldn’t be expected to just get stenography and then go back and do all the historical research on what this man has said and done in the past before.”
Dáte, who authored a book about Trump titled “The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus,” defended what he characterized as his responsibility to call out Trump for misleading statements.
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