CNN’s Gergen: Hewitt’s Foreign Policy Questions to Trump Were ‘Gotcha’

Donald Trump had a very foreign policy-focused interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt tonight in which Trump mixed up the Kurds and the Quds, admitted he wasn’t familiar with major enemies in the war on terror, and told Hewitt those were “gotcha” questions.

Hewitt told Trump he didn’t think they were (and Carly Fiorina provided much more substantive answers to the same questions), but CNN senior political analyst David Gergen agreed tonight they were “gotcha” in nature.

He told Anderson Cooper that generally, when reporters ask candidates “who’s the head of this African government or that African government, who’s what’s the difference between Tajikistan and Pakistan, you know, those are regarded as gotcha questions… that’s an old trick and those are gotcha questions.”

Cooper brought up the criticisms by foreign policy experts that Trump’s just not a serious person. Gergen said it’s more important to know who presidential candidates will surround themselves with policy-wise and again said “that’s a gotcha” to try and “reveal gaps in his knowledge” in that manner.

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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