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Tuesday was a fairly productive day at the White House as President Trump hosted bipartisan immigration talks, part of which was televised to the public which no other president had done before. The two sides walked away with a rough framework for what parts of the immigration puzzle they wanted to work on first. But according to ABC’s World News Tonight, the event was specifically staged so that Trump could try to convince people he wasn’t an idiot like Michael Wolff’s gossip book asserted.
It was a narrative ABC was eager to push right out of the gate. During the show’s opening tease of the segment, sensationalist anchor David Muir declared:
President Trump just days after the book Fire and Fury, the author claiming White House insiders told him the President does not read, does not listen. Today, the President spending 55 minutes on live television, negotiating on immigration, the dreamers and his wall.
It was a claim Muir repeated a few minutes later when he was leading into the segment about the historic talks.