And says he will not attend. I suppose I understand his fear... He may actually have to say something of value and he would not be allowed to continually interrupt Biden and the Moderator.
Well hopefully they give the whole time period to Biden then... :-)
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We already had a full hour of Biden. Pre-staged, softball questions from Biden supporters, and a friendly moderator. Wow. How informative. :-/
Well it looks like he is going to get more free air time if Trump is too scared to show up for a truly moderated and controlled debate. That is kind of Trump to forfeit his opportunity to make his case before a national audience.
Just curious. Were you okay with Trump interrupting Biden 73 times during the debate?
Did you think it was a "good thing" / Presidential?
I claim extreme provocation. Trump saw so many lies going unanswered that he couldn't keep up without interrupting. What is "Presidential" is trying to require some fealty to the truth.
Which lies? Multiple fact checks show that mostly it was Trump doing the lying.
And he could not address these during his allotted time?
Trump has only bad choices here. He needs a debate to change the direction of the election, but the last debate hurt him, and a virtual debate would be mostly a ninety minute demonstration of how he failed the country. Given that he is contagious with a life threatening disease, an in person debate is out of the question.
H
At this point, I think the president has given up on the election itself. He feels his best chance is through the legal process. This is the reason such a priority has been placed on putting Judge Barrett on the court who, he feels, is that vital fifth or sixth Republican justice who will somehow find a way to hand the election to him.
--Hiram
I think Trump and his administration are collapsing. They have stopped even trying to make sense. Trump, an infected individual himself, lives in a virus infected bubble. The notion that both he and his entourage could be brought out of quarantine into a previously uninfected community setting is simply ridiculous. That is particurly true because Trump and the White House refuse to follow their own CDC standards. Is it even possible to reasonably disagree with this?
--Hiram
An interesting question. Is it possible to reasonably disagree with utter nonsense?
Here is comment I left on FB...
"Of course it likely helps that Trump seems to be losing his mind. Maybe it is the meds...
- Turning down the virtual debate and then attacking the Moderator?
- Saying that he was going to stop negotiations and now saying that he wants a bigger bailout than the DEMs or GOPers?
- Hosting an in person event at the WH on Saturday?
- Blaming Gold Star Families for his COVID?
- Calling Harris a Monster?
Maybe it is the meds or he is suffering a melt down due the stress?
You are so far "left in the theater" you are out in the hallway.
After the election, we as a country are going to have to come to grips with what it means when over 40 percent of the population votes for a candidate who wants to jail his political opponents. We need to have a national conversation about whether this is what we want our country to be.
--Hiram
Jerry,
Trump is the one saying these silly things...
No perception / bias required.
And you are the one /interpreting/ them, with your obvious bias showing.
No interpretation required, he pretty well said it bluntly.
"Trump told Fox Business that he was "not going to waste my time on a virtual debate."
"I am not going to do a virtual debate," said Trump."
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“Steve Scully, the second Debate Moderator, is a Never Trumper, just like the son of the great Mike Wallace. Fix!!!” Trump wrote Friday, referencing Fox News's Chris Wallace, who refereed the chaotic first debate late last month.
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In a tweet before the meeting, Trump urged negotiators to “Go Big!” Trump later added more confusion to a chaotic week of discussions over aid.
“I would like to see a bigger stimulus package frankly than either the Democrats or Republicans are offering,” he told radio host Rush Limbaugh, hours after apparently signing off on the offer that costs $400 billion less than the Democrats’ plan.
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"I got a lot of things doing. And again, when I want to say hello to Gold Star families, what I -- I'm not going to be in a basement saying, 'Hey I can't see you as you traveled in from California and all the different places.' It's OK," Trump said Thursday morning during a call-in interview on Fox Business.
"And I think at some point I would -- it's a very -- look, it's a tiny, tiny it's like a tiny little microscopic piece of dust. It gets into nose your mouth or your eye, frankly, or something else or you touch something. So, I understand, and then you get better," he added.
"It's very, very hard when you are with people from the military or from law enforcement, and they come over to you and they want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good job for them. And you get close and things happen," Trump told Sean Hannity hours before his diagnosis was publicly disclosed.
There's no way to say conclusively how Trump and others contracted the virus, and just because someone tested positive sooner than someone else does not mean they were responsible for the infection.
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In a telephone interview on Thursday morning on the Fox Business Channel, Trump referred to Harris as "this monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way."
"I thought that wasn't even a contest last night. She was terrible. I don't think you could get worse," he added. "And totally unlikeable. And she is."
I realized a few days ago that Trump is a New Yorker, and his rapid-fire speaking style means the thought is often covered up by a lot of words. So perhaps it is understandable that you simply WANT to find fault with what he says, and deliberately misunderstand, or misinterpret, what is being said. Yet it is perfectly clear and correct to so many of the rest of us. Even your post title is blatant bias. Nobody except you thinks Trump is "afraid." They think, as he clearly said, it would be a waste of his time.
It's truly astonishing the contortions the cultists will attempt in order to keep their Messiah spotless.
Moose
Of course he is afraid to give a speech where he needs to actually prove his points and give a rational plan... He has no capability at either.
Thus he fears any true controlled dialogue / debate.
It would likely be "a waste of his time" for Trump since he would fail even worse than the first time.
Of course for us citizens it would be valuable... Which unfortunately is not what motivates him.
OK, shoe, meet other foot. Anybody care to prove that Biden was correct that 200 million Americans have died of Covid so far?
If nobody is going to call out Biden for his outrageous lies, or give Trump the time to do so, then this "debate" is indeed a waste of his time.
I looked and a lot of sources caught Joe's error / misstatement that he made during one speech in PA...
This one was posted on MSN
And Trump can always correct Biden during "Trump's time to speak".
As I said, Trump has no plan except attack, lie, etc... So he certainly does not want to be in a controlled normal debate.
The same reason he has never testified under oath... He just can not tell the truth or keep his stories straight.
I can find no example of Joe repeating that incorrect information after that one time.
As compared to Trump repeating statements even after they are proven false.
I just do not understand why my GOP peers are willing to support a chronic liar who is bringing down the whole party with him... Oh well... We will get what we deserve.
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