Sarah Palin Fails To Get Donald Trump To Take Her Outrage Bait (VIDEO)

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Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin tried valiantly to get Donald Trump to direct his trademark bluster at the press in a Friday night interview.

Despite being in friendly territory, the current Republican presidential frontrunner didn’t oblige.

The former Alaska governor offered up far more compliments than substantive questions in her interview with Trump, which aired on One America News Network’s “On Point.” After a brief chat about the country’s “screwed-up tax code” and a bit of White House-bashing, Palin made a point to say that “idiots in the press” twist Trump’s words and repeatedly tried to get him to call out the media for what she called their “gotcha” games.

Palin brought up the example of Trump’s news conference showdown with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, whom security escorted out of a presser this week before allowing him to return and ask about the billionaire’s hardline immigration platform.

“You schooled that radical activist and it was the right thing to do,
because I don’t think he’s going to pull that again,” she said. “Where do you get your guts for that kind of necessary confrontation?”

“Well you know, the press was really good to me on that one,” Trump responded, not quite taking the bait. “Because he was totally out of line. He was screaming and ranting and raving.”

Palin also vilified the press for asking the former reality TV host what his favorite Bible verse is, adding that reporters wouldn’t pose that kind of “personal gotcha” question to Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

“How are you finding a technique to put them in their place so the American public isn’t wasting their time and they actually get to hear what’s important via a candidate’s message?” Palin asked in characteristic word-salad fashion.

“I don’t know if it’s ‘gotcha,’ but probably is…Frankly, I don’t know if they’re fair questions or not fair questions,” Trump said, again not taking the bait.

Instead, he spoke about the positive reaction to his candidacy he saw from evangelical Christians.

“It’s all worked out very well,” he added. “Interestingly in the last poll, I won with everything including evangelicals. Big with the evangelicals.”

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