ATTEMPT BY SAVANNAH GUTHRIE TO EMBARRASS TRUMP FAILS

The NBC Today show host’s quiz of Trump was a veiled attempt to embarrass the GOP frontrunner over his attack against Bill Clinton for the former president’s philandering

BarkGrowlBite | December 39, 2015

I like the NBC Today show and I like co-host Savannah Guthrie. But on a couple of occasions during the current political campaign she has exposed her partiality toward the Democrats by trying to embarrass some of the Republican candidates for the presidency when she interviewed them. Another such incident occurred Tuesday morning when she quizzed Donald Trump over his attack against Bill Clinton for the former president’s philandering and bringing up that he had been branded a racist..

When it was announced that Bill would start campaigning for his wife, Trump attacked the former president for screwing around with women as a rebuke to Hillary’s claim that she is a champion for women while accusing The Donald as being sexist.

In her quizzing, Savannah repeatedly tried to show that Trump was wrong in bringing up Bill’s sordid sexual escapades and tried to get him to admit he called the former president a racist. But Trump refused to fall for her traps and instead went on the attack.

Trump said that if Hillary is going to run on women’s issues and use Bill in her campaign, then the former president’s "abuse of women" is “fair game.” Trump said:

"There was certainly a lot of abuse of women. You look at whether it's Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones or many of them. That certainly will be fair game. Certainly if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game."

When Guthrie tried to show that Trump called Bill a racist, Trump said:

"He was called that by the Obama campaign, he was called that loud and clear, he was extremely insulted. They called him a racist. I don't believe he is a racist if you want to know the truth, but they called him a racist."

In telling Trump they were out of time, Savannah appeared clearly flustered over her inability to embarrass The Donald. If anyone got embarrassed it was Savannah Guthrie!