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Former President Donald Trump did a call-in interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this week in which he made a number of statements of highly dubious veracity, including a story about steel company executives openly weeping in his presence out of gratitude for his tariffs on China. CNBC’s interview left CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy less than impressed, as he wrote on Tuesday morning that the network completely let Trump off the hook for making demonstrably false statements on its airwaves. Darcy in particular singled out Joe Kernen for simply letting Trump spout one falsehood after another wit…

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