Desperate Donald Trump is resorting to having people’s microphones cut off

| 11:00 pm EDT March 13, 2020
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When PBS News Hour reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked Donald Trump a tough question today that he didn’t like, he insisted it was a “nasty question” and then went out of his way to avoid properly answering it. It was somewhat surprising that Alcindor didn’t interject with a followup question when Trump tried to move on to another reporter. Now we know why.

Yamiche Alcindor appeared on MSNBC tonight and told host Joy Reid that once Donald Trump reacted negatively to her question, her microphone was immediately cut off. In other words, she was trying to ask a followup question, but none of us could hear her. That’s not just coming from her, either:

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So now we know that Donald Trump and his handlers are so desperate, so flailing, so out of ideas for how to handle any of this, they’re resorting to cutting off reporters’ microphones so that Trump can dodge the questions he doesn’t like. This is beyond the pale, yet not unexpected.