Larry King told CNN this evening that the fracas over Donald Trump doing an interview with him that aired on Kremlin-controlled TV is “making a mountain out of a molehill.”
Earlier today, Trump’s rep told CNN the interview was recorded as a podcast and was a favor to King, adding, “Mr. Trump was never told it would be shared anywhere else” and that Trump would not have agreed to do the interview had he known it would air on RT America – an operation of government-funded news outlet Russia Today.
King this evening told CNN’s Erin Burnett that the podcast and his Politicking show are two entirely different things, and suggested Trump knows that, having previously participated in King’s podcast.
“I don’t know what Trump knew,” King told Burnett with regard to where his Politicking show is distributed. He said he had not been contacted by Trump or his campaign since the kerfuffle broke out.
Besides which, King said, RT never has edited his show, “so what’s the deal?”
King insisted Vladimir Putin routinely gets criticized on the program. In a Thursday interview with King, Trump said the Russian government “probably” did not meddle in the American presidential race and that the Hillary Clinton camp’s suggestion otherwise was politically motivated.
King’s phone interview with Trump had ended extremely abruptly, when King asked Trump his thoughts about Mexican immigrants. There was dead silence on the other end of the call.
“Don, are you there?,” King asked, then told viewers, “I don’t know what happened there. We did not lose the connection, so something happened.”
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