Ancient video of Barbara Walters attributed to Trump makes everyone say the same
The legendary journalist Barbara Walters It was certainly a pioneer, calling Donald Trump‘S bs.
A resurgence and edited video of a 1990 interview Walters conducted with the future president For the “20/20” of ABC he has arrived at Tiktok and seems to show that A leopard never changes its points.
In the brief Tiktok clip, you can see Walters challenging Trump for his commercial insight after the publication of his 1990 book, “Trump: survive at the top.”
The clip begins with Trump destroying a sound that, at this point, is presented as an old one but as a gift.
“I hope that the general public understands how inherently dishonest is the press in this country,” says Trump.
“As a member of the press, let me try to clarify some of the things you say they are false,” Walters shoots, without stopping.
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Walters then reads an extract of “surviving at the top”.
My bankers and I made an excellent treatment that allows me to get out stronger than ever. I see the treatment as a great victory.
Then stop reading and tell Trump directly:
“Being on the verge of bankruptcy, being rescued by banks, skating on thin ice and almost drowning? Is he a businessman to admire?”
Trump, who had been trying to interrupt Walters while she faced him, tried to deny her statements.
“You say ‘on the verge of bankruptcy’, Barbara,” Trump begins. “And you speak ‘on the edge’, and you listen to what people say …”
“I talked to your bankers,” says Waters.
“Well, that’s fine. And what do they say? I want to say, you know, depending on what banker you are talking about”
“Several,” Walters triggers backwards.
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The clip then cuts Walters telling Trump that his bankers had told him that the best way out of the debt was selling his hotel, the square. Trump had bought the New York city hotel in 1988 for a little more than $ 400 million, a scandalous amount of money for a hotel at that time, the The New York Times reported.
According to the Times, Trump’s banks finally took possession of the square and bought it until it was sold in 1995 by an agreement valued at around $ 325 million, none of which was for Trump.
“Well, I don’t know what bankers have said, but the square is a very valuable property,” Trump tells Walters in the interview. “Everyone told me: ‘Oh, you paid too much. You paid too much.’ Now everyone says:” What a large part of it. “
“No, they are not,” Walters replies before the clip ends.
After seeing the clip on Tiktok, many people seemed to have a similar conclusion in the comments. As a Tiktoker said: “It has always been exactly who it is.”
“He has been a liar and delusional scammer all his life,” another Tiktoker wrote.
“The press is not dishonest, it is and that is why he is currently trying to suppress the press.” “Another user said.
“If this interview occurred in 2025, Maga would shout blindly ‘False news!'” Another Tiktok said.
“It has always been a tremate,” echoed another user.
“He hate being called by women, especially women in the press,” said another user.
Although according to the reports, Trump was furious for his 1990 interview with Walters, the two were friends who ran in the same circle of New York City.
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Trump even wrote kind words about the journalist after his death in 2022.
“She was the greatest of all, with much”, Trump wrote about social truth. “She knew that she was interviewed by her many times, and there was no one like the legendary Barbara Walters, and it will never be!”