In the business world, one of the cardinal rules is that it’s better to under-promise and over-deliver than to do the opposite. By that measure, both Donald Trump and his Aug. 23 interviewer, former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson, failed. Carlson’s Trump interview was decidedly softball, and the former president was notably vague with many of his responses. But is the relentless legal intimidation now preventing Trump from getting too specific on certain topics of conversation? Have we reached the point when the man who is most likely to challenge Joe Biden in 2024 can’t say certain things because those words might be used against him?
Few of Carlson’s questions were especially intriguing or challenging. One could argue that a journalism student could have done a better job. Then again, to be fair to the once-dominant cable news host, perhaps his agenda was not to pin down Mr….
