This is glorious.
Susanna Reid ambushed the Defence Minister live on
@GMB with his own deleted anti-Trump tweets.
Luke Pollard was taken completely by surprise. Asked whether Trump had made the world a safer place, he reached for the safe line that Trump’s pressure on NATO spending had made NATO safer.
Then she sprung the trap: “So overall he’s a good thing, is he?”
Pollard walked straight into it: “You’re not going to find me saying the opposite, I’m afraid, in an interview about this.”
She knew she had him: “Oh really? Okay. I’m just looking back at your past tweets about Donald Trump, in which you don’t seem to think he’s a very good thing.”
Then she read them out while he sat there in silence, smiling very uncomfortably.
2017: “Racist, women-abusing purveyors of hate should not be welcome in Britain.”
Also 2017: “He’s a hate-promoting, women-abusing embarrassment.”
And: “His politics is boasting about sexual assault, his attack on LGBT people and minority groups. Not the type of politics we should be putting the bunting out for.”
Then the knockout. “You’ve deleted those tweets. Have you changed your mind?”
She couldn’t have planned it better. He walked straight into it. You’d think he’d have seen it coming, but he clearly thought deleting them meant no one would ever know.
Brilliant,
@susannareid100 👏