Clinton interviewers give Trump the Voldemort treatment

By Becket Adams

Published January 14, 2016 5:01am ET

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Clinton interviewers give Trump the Voldemort treatment — "This started, remember when the man whose name we dare not speak anymore, Donald Trump, I mean, fact is, Trump started his sort of initiation in politics by saying the president of the United States was an illegal immigrant," said MSNBC host Chris Matthews. (Photo courtesy of screen shot)

Hillary Clinton’s New Year’s resolution this year was to swear off talking about GOP front-runner Donald Trump, and some interviewers have complied by dancing around saying the name of the man who has led the Republican field for nearly seven months.

When MSNBC’s Chris Matthews scored the first Clinton interview of 2016, for example, he gave a wink to her no-Trump pledge, and referred to the casino tycoon at one point as a person who should not be named.

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