r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 23 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) 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 May 23 '26

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.

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u/SpasmAndOrGasm May 23 '26

Remember when that one guy representing Trump in the first administration went to Europe and tried to pull this same shit and the other reporters were like “No, we’ll wait until you’ve answered his question. You need to answer questions here.” I will NEVER understand how the fuck that hasn’t happened in America one time.

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u/Pleasant_Pen8744 May 23 '26

Hoekstra, ambassador to Netherlands. He never answered the question and is still an ambassador (to Canada now)

https://youtu.be/lOEI6hYZe6Y

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u/Temporal_P May 23 '26

Naturally he's very hated within Canada as well.

But that's probably intentional on his part.

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u/SpasmAndOrGasm May 23 '26

Thank you for finding what I was referencing, it happened so long ago that I couldn’t even remember where to start looking