September 15, 2016 | No Comments
Donald Trump Jr.’s interview with a Pennsylvania TV station ended abruptly after a reporter asked the Republican presidential candidate’s eldest son about Washington Post reports that Trump used foundation funds to pay for a portrait of himself at an auction.
“You’re a director of the Trump Foundation charity. Did you sign off on charity money for a portrait?” WTAE reporter Bob Mayo asked in a segment aired Wednesday evening, with the Trump Organization executive in town to open his father’s western Pennsylvania campaign headquarters.
Trump Jr. responded, “No, I don’t know anything about that.”
As Mayo asked, “So how come you didn’t know,” a voice off-camera said, “All right. That’s it … We have to move on to the next … next one, thank you.”
The interview was not the only instance Wednesday of one of Trump’s children bristling at an interviewer’s line of questioning. Daughter Ivanka Trump objected to a Cosmopolitan.com reporter’s mentioning of her father’s 12-year-old comments about pregnancy being an “inconvenience for business” as she promoted the campaign’s new childcare plan.
“So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions, and I think my father has put forth a very comprehensive and really revolutionary plan to deal with a lot of issues,” Ivanka Trump told interviewer Prachi Gupta. “So I don’t know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this if you’re going to make a comment like that.”