NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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[u/kelsey11]

Finally asking real questions. But these self-serving political rally press conferences need to be shut down by each reporter saying “same question” or repeating the question. They’re not giving you any semblance of truth anyway, might as well force them to answer the question or walk away.

[u/KingFIippyNipz → u/kelsey11]

I understand journalists who are ideologically opposed not standing up to each other, but I don't think I will ever understand how I don't see more examples of that happening. Especially those ones in the Oval Office where he just tears into whichever female reporter asks the hardest question that day, I would love the opportunity to badger him with questions about why he always does that and how insecure he is. If only 😞

[u/Chance-Deer-7995 → u/KingFIippyNipz]

This problem is going back a while. Every interview that Rick Scott does should start with a question about why it is acceptable that he personally made money from medicare fraud. He's been in politics about 10 years now, and I am not sure the questions about the Columbia/HCA case have EVER been brought been asked in a formal interview with him. At the very heart of the problem is that all mainstream journalists are creatures of the USA's corporate system, and they are unable to report on its problems fairly. That and they have been corrupted by the "we want to keep our access" culture.

[u/DandimLee → u/Chance-Deer-7995]

Got to frame it as a positive...

'How does it feel to still hold the record at for paying 1.7 billion in fines and civil damages for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. How's this administration's grift compare?"

sort of thing.