What’s comical about this is that a powerful tool of successful businessmen is to “play dumb” at key times. There are several reasons for this, but my point is that asking a lot of questions doesn’t mean you don’t know the answers. Sometimes it means you simply want to hear what they have to say about it. Or you want to cause them to underestimate you or your power. I just assumed a long time ago that Trump did a lot of that.
Precisely, it's called keeping your mouth shut so your adversary can demonstrate just how inept they are and expose their weaknesses.
Yep....investigative listening.
He’s a master.
Also, asking the same question several times during a conversation helps to determine if somebody is lying. Ask the question 3 times and see if you get the same exact answer each time.
I’ve seen the LEOs on “COPS” do this many times.
Maybe but there is also nothing wrong with not knowing the answers. Too many of these politicians think they are gods. Mayne if they asked more questions the country wouldn’t be tanking.
THE ART OF THE DEAL.
“asking a lot of questions doesn’t mean you don’t know the answers”
A question is an excellent idea if you don’t know something.
All kinds of successful people do this. It may have been in Stephen Ambrose's biography of Eisenhower where I read that Ike knowingly employed his big smile and a blank look before a hostile press who already thought he was dumb, to avoid revealing sensitive information.
He was already a great general and strategist, and then the President of Columbia University, who got things done without fanfare because that's just what you do—and whom the Democrats insisted was dumb and "do-nothing." Because that's what most Democrats are.