When reporter SV Dáte finally got the question from the US president, he kept it simple.
“Min. President, after three and a half years, do you really regret all the lies you have told the American people?”
Mr Dáte, White House correspondent for the Huffington Post, later said he had waited five years to ask the question.
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Apparently shocked, Donald Trump responded: “Anything?”
“All lies, all dishonesty,” Dáte continued, during a White House press conference on Thursday.
“That who did?” Mr. Trump replied, in an apparent attempt to deflate the question.
All the lies “that you have done,” Dáte went through, before he was cut off from the end of his sentence.
Mr. Trump then called on another journalist, who apparently did not appreciate Mr Dáte’s question, a tactic that has become commonplace around his presidency.
Mr. That won many plaudits on Twitter after asking the question to the president.
“Not all heroes wear hats,” one user wrote. “BRAVO”.
‘Thank you for your courage today. Funny how that liar had nothing to say, “wrote another.
Meanwhile, others wondered why Mr Dáte’s colleagues did not follow up on his question.
“It would have been appropriate for the person following you to ask a question on point instead of leaving him off the hook,” one said.
“Not a strong moment of solidarity”.
At the coronavirus briefing, the president again suggested that post-in exile would lead to voter fraud, a claim widely dismissed by experts.
He also pedaled a false claim that Sen. Kamala Harris in California may not be suitable for the vice president’s office.
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