Donald Trump gets the Palin treatment: heightened scrutiny

By Jonathan Capehart
WashPost

Michael Tomasky’s blog post headline said it all: Donald Trump’s Sarah Palin moment. The moment was a simple question to Trump from NBC News White House Correspondent Savannah Guthrie on whether there is a right to privacy in the Constitution. An easy query to handle if you know the answer or why it’s being asked. Trump failed the test and entered a new and welcome phase in his faux campaign for president: heightened scrutiny.

Since Trump now says he’s fervently pro-life, it was only natural that Guthrie would ask him about the right-to-privacy underpinning of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a woman’s right to choose. "I guess there is, I guess there is,” he said. “And why, just out of curiosity, why do you ask that question?”

NBC Nightly News aired a report from Michael Isikoff in which he did the kind of reporting and interview with Trump that the real estate mogul better get used to. Trump was called to account for his business dealings, his numerous bankruptcies, the multiple lawsuits against him and his net worth.

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