Katie Couric Admits She’s No Longer ‘Trying to Be Impartial’ About Trump

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Katie Couric admitted during an interview with NBC News’ Jonathan Karl that she’s no longer trying to be “impartial” when she talks about President Donald Trump.

The two journalists discussed Karl’s new book on Trump titled Retribution during a new episode of her podcast, Next Question With Katie Couric.

“You say that he wants to be liked, he wants to be loved, he wants to be admired, but, good lord. I mean, have you ever seen someone going about wanting to be liked by behaving the way he does? By insulting people, by diminishing people, by behaving the way he does? It’s just, the pathology is so bizarro to me,” Couric said.

“It’s really something,” Karl agreed. “I think part of the attacks is that it will please other people. It’s a crowd pleaser when he cuts down a reporter, or when he goes out and says the things that he says about his political opponents. I mean the stuff he has said about Biden. I mean, we’ve never seen a president say that sort of thing about a former president.”

Couric delved into that point, saying, “It’s kind of understood that you don’t even talk about the person who was the sitting president. I mean, that’s kind of standard operating procedure for former presidents to not criticize. ”

“Yeah, and there’s no standard operating procedure,” Karl said of Trump. “We never see anything like this. I mean, we’ve never even seen minor, mild criticisms. And he’s putting the autopen on display.”

“Yeah, that is so creepy,” Couric said. “I’m sorry, I’ve kind of gone beyond trying to be impartial here — because his behavior is so beyond the pale. This autopen…so he places presidential portraits on the hallway leading to the Oval Office. And the one he puts up of Joe Biden is an autopen. I mean, it’s so sophomoric, but it’s also just so creepy. I mean, what is that?”

Karl doubled-down on his claim that Trump was trying to please his base by telling a story about Biden calling Trump after the assassination attempt in Butler.

“They spoke like they were old friends…I mean as friendly as you could possibly be,” Karl said.

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