• Interview.Don Winslow: "I was done with this guy when he made fun of a disabled journalist"

One is the undisputed king of terror, another is on his way to becoming the king of thriller. And both have a common enemy: Donald Trump . Stephen King and Don Winslow , who had already stated on numerous occasions their opposition to the ideology, methods and policies of the current US president, have decided to raise the bet through their Twitter accounts.

The first to "shoot" was Winslow, the author of the celebrated trilogy on Mexican drug cartels and the so-called "war on drugs," which in a tweet offered to donate $ 100,000 to St. Jude's children's hospital in Tennessee if Stephanie Grisham, the current White House press secretary, " accepts questions from the entire press corps for an hour in the White House conference room."

The purpose of Winslow is that the press conferences that were usual until Trump's arrival to the Government be convened again. The last one was held more than 300 days ago , and it was Grisham's predecessor in office, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who organized it. Since then, Trump prefers informal meetings with reporters, without accepting questions from non-related media, and the appearance of his spokesmen on television channels that share his views.

Stephen King , Winslow's personal friend and Trump's scourge on Twitter, decided to support the initiative by offering another $ 100,000 out of pocket. "That's 200,000 for charity . And all you have to do is your damn job! Why are there no informational meetings for the press?" He asked Grisham on Twitter. "This administration does not propagate information, but propaganda. A press conference will only underline lies and contradictions. Go ahead, Stephanie Grisham, show me that I am wrong. Bonus: $ 200,000 for sick children," he continued.

For now, Grisham has not responded directly to the challenge, but he did make a brief mention of the matter in an interview for CNN. "If you have $ 200,000 left over, why don't you help children simply because it's a good thing? Donations to charity should never come with conditions," he said.

Winslow was quick to counterattack, again via Twitter: "First, we both regularly donate to charitable causes. Second, why do all Trump officials refuse to answer the most basic questions asked of them? Stop evading yourself, Stephanie, let's try again: why haven't you organized a press conference at the White House for more than 300 days? What are you afraid of? " For now, the head of the press remains unanswered.

Both Winslow and King have a long history of public criticism of the president . Two years ago, Winslow published a full-page ad in the New York Times to dismantle Trump's proposal to build the border wall.

Already in 2019, he challenged the president to a debate on Fox News about his administration's plans on immigration policy. And in interviews, such as the one published by EL MUNDO last March on the occasion of the launch of El cartel , his latest novel, he usually used to settle accounts with Trump: "I had finished with this guy when he made fun of a disabled journalist, he could not to believe that he would have survived that. Now it seems one of the minor things of everything he has done. Deep down he terrifies me because, if we look back in history, he remembers how fascist regimes arose in Europe. "

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