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    CNN Reporter Absolutely Shreds Melania Trump Over ‘Completely Unprecedented and Very, Very Unusual’ $250K Request to Do an Interview
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    CNN Reporter Absolutely Shreds Melania Trump Over ‘Completely Unprecedented and Very, Very Unusual’ $250K Request to Do an Interview

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    1. T_Shurt on

      Watch the [video here](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/kjjFjZne) 📺

      As per [original article](https://www.mediaite.com/news/cnn-reporter-absolutely-shreds-melania-trump-over-completely-unprecedented-and-very-very-unusual-250k-request-to-do-an-interview/) 📰:

      – CNN correspondent Hadas Gold harshly condemned a request from former First Lady Melania Trump’s publisher, asking for a stunning $250,000 payment for an interview.

      Gold reported on Thursday about an email from Skyhorse Publishing, the publisher for Trump’s memoir, with an agreement that requested a $250,000 “licensing fee” for an interview, book excerpts, and photos. That amount is in line with similar payments Trump has recently received for speaking fees at fundraisers and other political events. When asked for comment, the publisher claimed this was a “miscommunication” and insisted “[n]either Melania nor anyone from her team knew anything” about the request.

      CNN Newsroom anchor Pamela Brown reported on how Trump has voiced her support for abortion as a “fundamental right of individual liberty,” putting her in conflict with the GOP platform as her husband former President Donald Trump is running for re-election — and abortion is a more contentious issue than ever in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs.

      CNN had tried to interview Trump before the release of her memoir, said Brown, but her publisher “responded with an unusual demand” — the $250,000 “licensing fee” that she and Gold had reported.

      The story was “pretty simple,” said Gold. “Most legitimate news organizations would never pay a public figure, especially the spouse of the Republican candidate for president, for an interview. Full stop. They just would not do that.”

      “CNN has not and will not pay for such an interview,” she emphasized.

      Media organizations have paid to license photos or trying to get interviews with people “involved in things like scandals or murders or the like,” Gold continued, but paying for a political interview, especially the spouse of a candidate, “essentially all of the media ethical boundaries.”

      It was common for a former first lady to be paid for a speaking engagement or a book advance, but Trump was “not just the former first lady,” she was also the spouse of the current GOP presidential nominee.

      “So it is very unusual also that her team would send such requests, and such a high amount for request to a news organization,” said Gold. She noted that the publisher was now saying this was a “miscommunication,” but she was skeptical of that excuse, noting that there were “several back-and-forths” between the publisher and CNN before the proposed contract was sent and it was “very clear in the conversations with CNN, and in the contract that we’ve seen, that they knew who they were dealing with, because the contract very clearly lays out that it’s CNN, that the contract is with and that it is for an interview.

      Gold added that Trump had been interviewed by Fox News twice during the last few weeks, and Fox News gave a statement to CNN saying the network did not pay a licensing fee or any other fee for those interviews.

      This request, “coming from a supposedly professional team for Melania Trump,” being sent to a news organization, was “completely unprecedented and very, very unusual,” Gold said journalism ethics experts and experts regarding the first lady’s activities all said.

    6. Anteros81sa on

      She was a hooker, what do you expect?
      And yes I’m calling her a hooker. She is not the same as a sex worker.

    13. mistressusa on

      No need to shred a girl who’s just trying to sell anything of value she’s still got. Just don’t interview her. Remember her pre and postnup with Donald is not worth what it used to, given how much he’s spending on lawyers and, even if there’s anything leftover, Leticia James gets first dibs.

    17. Njabachi on

      Grifters gonna grift

      I think she’s selling a “Freedom necklace” now for like $600 or something. 

    18. HunterNo7593 on

      Shame on CNN for even entertaining the thought of interviewing another grifter from the Chump clan.

    20. JuanGinit on

      Money grubbing gold digger and high-priced whore
      She doesn’t come cheap. For that kind of money she should do the interview in the nude. She would get an audience. Otherwise an interview with her would be boring as hell.

    22. Dense-Comfort6055 on

      Either she has terrible prenup or she knows he’s not worth much. Panhandling for ungodly appearance fees

    23. No-Personality5421 on

      She been getting that everytime she appears anywhere with, or for, the felon. She probably thinks it’s unusual when people *don’t* just hand her money for doing the smallest things.