The mainstream media have been tripping over themselves to denigrate President Trump in the wake of his interview with ABC News' Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos spent 30 hours with the President flying on Air Force One to Iowa, traveling in his armored vehicle, greeting him in his West Wing residence and in the Oval Office for a day of meetings, and sitting down for a one-on-one interview in the White House Rose Garden.
During the course of that interview
the
following discussion took place:
Stephanopoulos: Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if Russia, if China, if someone else offers you information on opponents, should they accept it or should they call the FBI?
President Trump: I think maybe you do both. I think you might want to listen, there's nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, "we have information on your opponent." Oh, I think I'd want to hear it.
Stephanopoulos: You want that kind of interference in our elections?
President Trump: It's not an interference, they have information. I think I'd
take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI. If I thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with oppo research, right, they come up with oppo research. Oh, let's call the FBI. The FBI doesn't have enough agents to take care of it, but you go and talk honestly to congressmen, they all do it, they always have. And that's the way it is. It's called oppo research.
Here is how some in the mainstream media reported it: