Donald Trump Accuses Meet the Press of Dishonestly Editing Down Conway Interview

In a Sunday tweet, president elect Donald Trump accused NBC’s Meet the Press of dishonestly editing down an interview with transition official Kellyanne Conway.

Kellyanne Conway went to @MeetThePress this morning for an interview with @chucktodd. Dishonest media cut out 9 of her 10 minutes. Terrible!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2017

Host Chuck Todd ran about a minute-long clip of Conway before the panel discussion. An NBC source tells CNN’s Brian Stelter that the transition team agreed to the interview knowing it would just be used as a soundbite.

NBC source says Team Trump knew (on Friday) that the show was only planning to run a sound bite from @KellyannePolls, not full interview https://t.co/8xFulaizfC

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 8, 2017

But Conway disputed that characterization.

False. We’re not in the business of furnishing 10-minute Sunday show interviews so media can choose which “soundbite” to run. Our POV cut… https://t.co/3a4Fu8ID2s

— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) January 8, 2017

This is Trump’s fourth attack on NBC in as many days, including tweets about Celebrity Apprentice‘s ratings and one calling for Congress to open an investigation into NBC News.

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