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Dan Rather: Trump 'Not a Dumb Person,' But 'Cunning'
Thursday, January 12, 2017 07:27 PM
By: Cathy Burke
President-elect Donald Trump showed "real intelligence" and "shrewdness" handling the media during his first post-election news conference, veteran newsman Dan Rather says.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the former "CBS Evening News" anchor, who now anchors for Axis-TV, said he last interviewed Trump in 2000 for "60 Minutes" — and "he hated it."
"It's a challenge interviewing him," Rather said. "This I know about Donald Trump: He is not a dumb person. I know a lot of people who say, 'Dan, if he's not a dumb person, why does he do these dumb things?'
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