{"id":1992636,"date":"2023-08-06T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-stephanopoulos-repeatedly-pesters-doug-burgum-with-trump-questions-during-interview\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T22:19:21","slug":"george-stephanopoulos-repeatedly-pesters-doug-burgum-with-trump-questions-during-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-stephanopoulos-repeatedly-pesters-doug-burgum-with-trump-questions-during-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"George Stephanopoulos relentlessly questions Doug Burgum about Trump in interview."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-stephanopoulos-repeatedly-pesters-doug-burgum-with-trump-questions-during-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1992636&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>ABC News\u200c Anchor \u2062Grills North Dakota Governor on \u200cTrump<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/abc-news\">ABC News<\/a> anchor George Stephanopoulos didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">hold back<\/a> during his interview with North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden's Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">press secretary<\/a> for President Bill Clinton repeatedly pressed Burgum on\u2063 his thoughts about former President Donald\u2062 Trump and the recent indictments against him.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos, known\u2064 for his tough\u2063 questioning, wanted \u2062to\u2063 focus on Burgum&#8217;s presidential campaign and the future.\u2064 However, every question he asked revolved around Trump:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;He\u2019s facing\u200b three felony indictments. Have you read the indictments, and\u2064 what\u2019s your reaction to them?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Was Donald Trump wrong when\u200c he pressured Mike Pence not \u200cto certify? Was Mike Pence\u2062 right \u200bwhen he certified?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Do you have an opinion on the fact that President\u2062 Trump tried to overturn\u200c the election as alleged in the indictment this\u200b week by special prosecutor Smith?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;It\u2019s not simply a \u200clegal question,\u2064 sir. It\u2019s a moral question. It\u2019s an ethical question. It\u2019s a question about civics. Do\u200d you\u2063 believe\u200d President \u2064Trump was right to try to overturn the election results?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;You\u2019re not answering my questions about the front-runner who you \u200bneed to\u2062 defeat in \u200corder to become the presidential candidate \u2062for the \u200bRepublican Party. You mentioned irregularities. Those have been adjudicated by the courts dozens and\u2062 dozens of times and\u2063 they ruled\u200d against President Trump every single time. Mike\u2063 Pence said, \u2062flatly, I really do believe that anyone \u200bwho \u2064puts themselves above the Constitution should never \u200cbe president of \u2063the United States. Do\u2064 you believe that President Trump has disqualified himself?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Burgum, however, \u200dremained focused on the issues that matter to Americans. \u2064He emphasized the need\u200d for \u2064a\u200b candidate who will address concerns such as inflation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mass-gubernatorial-candidate-geoff-diehl-earns-trump-endorsement\/\" title=\"Mass. gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl earns Trump endorsement\">high energy costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve got to be looking to the future, not to\u2063 the\u2063 past,&#8221; he\u2062 asserted. &#8220;Presidential campaigns should be about the future, not about the past. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re bringing, that voice to this campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the Interview:<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos persistently questioned North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum about former President Donald Trump during their interview on Sunday regarding Burgum&#8217;s presidential campaign. Stephanopoulos, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, posed these inquiries following Trump&#8217;s federal grand jury indictment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1992637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}