Trump Jr. interview cut off after charity questions

Donald Trump Jr.'s interview with a Pennsylvania TV station ended abruptly after a reporter asked the Republican presidential candidate's eldest son about Washington Post reports that Trump used foundation funds to pay for a portrait of himself at an auction.

“You’re a director of the Trump Foundation charity. Did you sign off on charity money for a portrait?” WTAE reporter Bob Mayo asked in a segment aired Wednesday evening, with the Trump Organization executive in town to open his father's western Pennsylvania campaign headquarters.


Trump Jr. responded, "No, I don't know anything about that."

As Mayo asked, "So how come you didn't know," a voice off-camera said, "All right. That's it. ... We have to move on to the next ... next one, thank you."

The interview was not the only instance Wednesday of one of Trump's children bristling at an interviewer's line of questioning. Daughter Ivanka Trump objected to a Cosmopolitan.com reporter's mentioning of her father's 12-year-old comments about pregnancy being an "inconvenience for business" as she promoted the campaign's new child care plan.

"So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions, and I think my father has put forth a very comprehensive and really revolutionary plan to deal with a lot of issues," Ivanka Trump told interviewer Prachi Gupta. "So I don't know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this if you're going to make a comment like that."