Time Journalist Shares What ‘Struck’ Him About Trump After Stunning Interview [Video]

Time magazine on Tuesday published a bombshell interview with former President Donald Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, titled “If He Wins.”

Massimo Calabresi, Time’s Washington bureau chief, appeared on CNN Tuesday to discuss the article, written by national politics reporter Eric Cortellessa.

The piece begins with the sentence: “Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.”

“It sets the tone for the whole piece,” Calabresi told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Which is: This is the same Donald Trump we’re all very familiar with.”

“But he struck Eric Cortellessa, our reporter, and all of us involved in the piece, as more confident,” he continued. “That confidence, I think, comes from his own experience, but also from having a real plan for what he would do if he got in office. And it is, in some ways, designed to be tougher than last time.”

Trump was interviewed twice in April for the article, once …