Mehdi Hasan grills Jill Stein on Putin, exposing her reluctance to condemn Russian leader. Dive into the heated exchange.
  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m no fan of Stein. I was years ago, but not anymore. But she seems very clear in the beginning, then equivocates in the middle then clarifies (kinda) towards the end— but the way the interviewer goes after her seems like she’s being evasive in a way that doesn’t come across in the textual reading.

    Is there an audio and/or video clip of this interview?

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah she explicitly said “yes” multiple times. I don’t like her, but this is garbage.

      • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Unless she can say the words ‘Putin is a war criminal’ she is avoiding the question. “In so many words” is not a yes. I understand she follows with yes he is, but why can’t she just say yes, Putin is a war criminal?

      • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Thanks for the link, but I deleted my account years ago. No worky for me.

        If anyone could link something else, I’d be quite grateful. 👍

        Edit: here’s a link:

        https://xcancel.com/mehdirhasan/status/1835761859838038350

        Also— I don’t read her as being so much pro-putin as she is trying to be “stateswoman” and also being terribly unprepared. Just a total flop. She seemed like she was trying to be very reasonable, and she was just destroyed by the interviewer who was unrelenting on a single question that she was not prepared to answer.

        I’m not apologizing for her. It was probably the one and only question she should have been prepared to answer right off the bat. And how she fumbled it was extremely damaging to her.

        She did answer, but her answer got lost in the mess of it all. And that interviewer was being a very aggressive.