HuffPost senior White House correspondent S.V. Dáte on Tuesday defended his coverage of President Donald Trump, specifically his line of questioning to the White House that went viral this week over press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s childish response.
“The views I have about Donald Trump now are those that have come from my reporting and from my watching him and from my experience. And If I don’t convey my conclusions about Donald Trump to my audience, then I’m failing them,” Dáte said on CNN News Central.
“I mean, people who are watching CNN or reading HuffPost or The New York Times for that matter, they shouldn’t be expected to just get stenography and then go back and do all the historical research on what this man has said and done in the past before.”
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Last week, Dáte reached out to the White House for comment regarding the decision to choose Budapest as the meeting place for Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The reporter’s text exchange with Leavitt went viral after she responded to Dáte’s query about who chose the location with what appears to be the administration’s idea of professionalism: “Your mom did.”
