Via Katie Phang:
NEW per #NABJ President: “The bigger problem was [#Trump’s] threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on. He did not want to be fact-checked, but we could not let him on the stage without fact-checking.”
The initial audio problems were “resolved very quickly.”
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/02/trump-nabj-fact-checking-black-journalists