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What's next? Asking hard questions, or follow up questions?

If Trump says "I've ended 7 or 8 wars" or says "I've lowered drug prices 800, 900, 1000 percent" and no one says

"Sir, how is it possible to lower a price by 900 percent" or "Could you specify which conflicts it is you refer to by those 7 or 8 wars?" then you aren't a journalist.

If you go to an event where such things are said and there is no opportunity to ask these obvious follow up questions, then you stop going there, or you aren't a journalist.

If someone asks these questions and that leaves them excluded from those events - then you also stop going there in solidarity, or you aren't a journalist.



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