A Reporter Waits Years to Ask Donald Trump "The" Question.

Huffington Post's White House correspondent, SV Date, is usually a spectator when Donald Trump stages a press conference. Trump, like his press secretaries, tend to invite questions from a select few. So when Trump called upon Date, the HuffPo scribe had just one question, the only question he will ever get to ask the Mango Mussolini.



In that moment, S.V. Date, put every reporter in the room to shame. All of them, every one, especially those who have been "the chosen ones," asking reliably softball questions of Trump, his press secretaries and cabinet officials every day.

From The Washington Post:

Dáte, a veteran journalist and author who spent more than three decades at outlets including the Palm Beach Post and the Associated Press before joining HuffPost, has been particularly aggressive in urging his colleagues to push back on Trump’s falsehoods. 

In an email to his colleagues last year, Dáte urged journalists to “be more concerned about getting lied to as a matter of course — and the American public getting lied to, through us — than about access.”

“We are attacked on a near daily basis using Stalinist language. We are called corrupt and dishonest. We are given false information from staff who often know full well that it is false.”

“I have never encountered a public official, a candidate for office, a bureaucrat, a defense lawyer or, frankly, an actual criminal who is as regularly and aggressively dishonest as the current president of the United States. And that includes a dozen years covering the Florida legislature.”

There have been many reporters who routinely challenged Trump's veracity, just not to his face. There has been a "go along to get along" attitude.

For what it's worth, even FOX News aired the clip.