"CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale called out NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas for his failure to keep up with President Donald Trump's lies and rapid-fire dishonesty during a pre-Super Bowl interview. Llamas scored a big exclusive interview with Trump that's set to air on Super Bowl Sunday, with clips rolling out in advance. NBC also released an extended preview that aired on Tuesday night's edition of NBC News Now's Top Story with Tom Llamas that ran over 50 minutes in length."
"Llamas certainly asked the president various skeptical and important questions, including some sharp follow-ups. And NBC published a fact check of some of the false claims in a Wednesday article on its website. But Llamas' hands-off approach to the president's falsehoods left people watching the interview on television and through social media clips without immediate corrective information on a variety of pressing subjects."
"An exchange about inflation, for example, was littered with a bunch of inaccurate Trump figures and assertions that Llamas let pass by with the word right. And in one case, when Trump claimed it's only very few product prices that have stubbornly refused to fall during this presidency, Llamas initially responded with a comment that made it sound like he was endorsing the false claim: Yeah, very few. I get it."
NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas conducted an extensive pre–Super Bowl interview with President Donald Trump, including a more than 50-minute preview. Llamas posed skeptical and important questions and published a web fact-check addressing some false claims. Trump's rapid-fire dishonesty complicated on-air correction, especially with limited White House time and pressure to cover planned topics. Many repeated, debunked falsehoods went unchallenged as Llamas often replied with brief acknowledgments or did not dispute inaccuracies, leaving viewers without immediate corrections. An inflation exchange featured inaccurate figures and assertions that passed with minimal pushback, and a review cataloged more than a dozen false or misleading statements.
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