Donald J. Trump: Dr. Phil McGraw Interview

Source:Donald J. Trump being interviewed by Dr. Phil McGraw. I guess this is Dr. Phil's audition to be Mr. Trump's spiritual advisor.

"MUST WATCH: Dr. Phil Sits Down With President Trump in Exclusive In-Depth Interview." 

From Donald J. Trump

"Trump, a recently convicted felon, told Dr. Phil that he wouldn’t rule out trying to exact “revenge” on those who he felt have wronged him.

Television host Phil McGraw—known by his stage name, Dr. Phil—sided with Donald Trump on nearly everything during an interview with the newly convicted felon that aired Thursday, calling on President Joe Biden at one point to “stop pursuing” him and saying that only “stupid” people would believe that Biden wasn’t behind his recent conviction.

In the opening minutes of his interview with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, McGraw mentioned recent comments he had made regarding Trump’s New York criminal trial and his three remaining indictments.

“I called for President Biden to stop all of this now. And of course a lot of people said, ‘Oh, he can’t stop this; it’s a state case,’” McGraw recalled. “OK, that’s an explanation for stupid people, but for people who understand how this works behind the scenes and all, I say the same thing: They need to stop this. They need to stop pursuing you.”

McGraw then lamented that “there have been so many attempts to get you off the board” since his fellow television personality announced his candidacy in 2015. He even tried to claim that, regarding one of Trump’s impeachments, “they changed the rules to try to make it high crimes and misdemeanors.” What McGraw meant by this wasn’t immediately clear.

“It seems to be never-ending,” he summarized, to Trump’s agreement.

McGraw at one point lavished praise on the former president, asking him why he continues to run for office despite the constant attacks.

“You’ve got a thick skin. You’re not one of those people who is afflicted with the need to be loved by strangers,” McGraw told Trump. “You’re a billionaire, you’ve got a great family, you’re a very dedicated father and people might not see that because you keep that kind of private.”

Regarding Trump’s conviction for falsifying business records to help his 2016 presidential campaign, McGraw took an odd stance. It is illegal, he suggested, for a co-defendant to plead to lesser charges on the condition that they provide testimony for the prosecution, even though doing so is common practice and not against the law.

“You don’t let someone that has been charged in the same case as someone else, and they made a plea deal, and said, ‘OK, I’m guilty of doing this’ because they were intimidated into doing it—the lawyer in your case…he bartered around out from 65 years of imprisonment down to three years and two years on this case… in exchange for giving them testimony against you,” McGraw said, doubting that Trump’s received a fair trial.

“That’s not supposed to come in, but it did. [David] Pecker making a deal—a non-prosecution agreement. That’s not supposed to come in, but it did. That got into the jury box. They got to hear all of that,” he said, referring to the former head of the National Enquirer’s parent company, AMI.

Within hours of the interview airing, McGraw went on CNN and made a similar argument—this time to stunned NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip, who attempted to explain how wrong he was.

“That’s kind of how a lot of these prosecutions work,” she said.

“Well, you will have to give me an example to respond to,” McGraw replied, “Because I just simply don’t agree with that.”

Trump, convicted on all 34 felony counts in New York and with prison time on the table, later told McGraw that he wouldn’t rule out trying to exact “revenge” on those who he felt have wronged him.

After McGraw told him that he doesn’t “have time to get even,” Trump acknowledged that “revenge does take time,” but added: “And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil. I have to be honest. Sometimes it can.” 

From The Daily Beast

To start on a lighter note first: the closest thing that Dr. Phil comes to making an honest statement in this "interview", was when they were talking about why Donald Trump didn't testify in his own defense during the hush money trial. And DJT was sort of trying to explain why he didn't testify and Dr. Phil said: "I would've jumped in front of a moving car to prevent you from testifying." 

Now back to Dr. Phil's garbage hour with Donald J. Trump. 

Dr. Phil talking to Donald Trump: "Phil McGraw, aka Dr. Phil, raised eyebrows with how he described Donald Trump in an interview with the former president that aired Thursday.

“I know you got a thick skin,” McGraw told the notoriously thin-skinned presumptive GOP presidential nominee who frequently lashes out at those who attack him and, in the same sit-down, claimed revenge “can be justified.”

“You’re not one of those people that’s afflicted with the need to be loved by strangers. I get that,” McGraw added.

“I think that’s true,” replied Trump." 

From Yahoo News

I saw part of the interview where Dr. Phil makes his "thick skin" comment to Mr. Trump. And the "Good Doctor" almost had a smirk on his face as he's making this comment. And then later in this interview he's talking to Trump about why Trump feels the need to seek revenge on his opponents. He contradicts himself during his own so-called interview, within minutes of the show.

There's no need to go back into history when Donald J. Trump not just had a Twitter page, but used it almost every hour (who has the time for national security briefings when you have Twitter) and generally doing that to hit back on negative things and stories that were being reported about him. Or attack people from his Twitter page for saying negative things about him, or agreeing to testify against him, etc. He's now doing that on his Truth Social page, but with like 10% of the followers that he had on Twitter.

As far as preserving Dr. Phil's reputation here: that went out the window when he became the Jerry Springer of psychology TV back in the 2010s and 2000s by having the craziest, most irresponsible, dumbest people, that he could possibly find in America. (Unless some, or most of his guests are just actors) 

But it's another to go from the guy who has someone on his show who just not claims to be the "Sexy Vegan", to being at the head of the line to pay Donald Trump to kiss his ass for him on national TV. I guess Mr. Trump would use Dr. Phil's money to help pay his own legal expenses.

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