Trump: Lester Holt Asked Me Some 'Unfair' And 'Hostile' Questions
Source: Talking Points Memo
Donald Trump on Tuesday morning lamented that NBC's Lester Holt, the moderator of Monday night's debate, and asked him unfair questions and declined to ask Hillary Clinton about her emails or the Benghazi attack.
"I had some hostile questions, but that was okay," Trump said on "Fox and Friends" Tuesday morning when asked how he thought the debate went. And when asked if Holt asked Clinton the same number of "hostile" questions, Trump listed a few topics he thinks Holt should have asked Clinton to address, including her email server, which she did address during the debate.
"He didn't ask her about the emails at all. He didn't ask her about her scandals. He didn't ask her about the Benghazi deal that she destroyed," Trump said. "He didn't ask her about a lot of things she should have been asked about. There's no question about it. He didn't ask about her foundation."
Trump said that Holt "didn't do a bad job," but complained that he left Clinton's "little goodies out" and pressed Trump on his tax returns.
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George II
(67,782 posts)....Clinton or totally evaded questions.
MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)...while doing nothing but.
BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)MsMAC
(91 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)who screams that he's got the temperament to be president.
bucolic_frolic
(43,197 posts)"Do what I want!"
In Trump's mind, only softball questions are permitted.
It's a tough job for a tough person, not a whiner and a cry baby.
CincyDem
(6,365 posts)Suspend for a moment that Donald doesn't really have corporate success if you look at the facts...
In corporations, leaders have control. I know there's a lot of collaborative decision making going on throughout the ranks but once you're at the top, you decide and it's over.
In politics, leaders have to lead without control.
Donald doesn't know how to navigate a world where he doesn't have control and it's making him crazy.
Remember, a narcissist's most important task is to control the narrative.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)CincyDem
(6,365 posts)...in spite of being a republican, Lester Holt doesn't live in the echo chamber.
Those are echo chamber questions.
He'll be much happier with Chris Wallace when they get to Vegas in October. And I'm sure HRC will be 110% prepared for all the crap to roll down from Fox News' Bullshit Mountain.
liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)Hugin
(33,167 posts)Ooo...
Hugin
(33,167 posts)You potato sack of rotten oranges. I'm sickened... and appalled... But, not surprised.
Botany
(70,523 posts)That was the worst showing in a debate I have ever seen and now he is trying to
blame Lester Holt for his screw up?
Hugin
(33,167 posts)You'd think he'd support Mike Pence.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Why didn't he get in some of those punches at Hillary, if the moderator wouldn't? She certainly got some in at him. It's because he's not a good debater and was too occupied defending himself from her. She was on the offensive most of the time.
Someone asked a Conservative voter if she would still be voting for Trump, and she said she would. "I'm a Conservative and I am voting for the Conservative Party, even if there is a Jackass at the head of it!"
Nitram
(22,822 posts)Somebody call a whaaaaambulance!
nightwalker
(13 posts)He kept on closing his eyes on camera. Drinking lots of water, shaking his head and rolling his eyes. She really pissed him off. Was great to see him being on the defensive for once. Clinton was really good at pushing his buttons.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)The 'Xanax Donald' at the beginning of the debate became the 'Meth Donald' by the end.
niyad
(113,413 posts)mahina
(17,672 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Where?
SDJay
(1,089 posts)When you're exposed as a fraud and a fool, blame the black guy. It's all they've been doing for 8 years now. No reason to stop now.
Paladin
(28,266 posts)Guess I shouldn't be so tough on Trump---with all that sniffing he was doing last night, chances are he's ill. Really, really ill.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)or pretty much every day.
safeinOhio
(32,692 posts)Hillary prepared. The biggest cry baby to ever run for office in history. Wish Hillary would say "I'll give you something to really cry about if you don't stop your whining this minute"
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,197 posts)Trump and the GOP use PC as a lever to exact advantage
It's totally cooked up drama to help themselves
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)pretty much every time Trump open his yap.
unblock
(52,261 posts)hmm? ever think of that, donnie?
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Getting 24 hr free advertising for his shitty campaign.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)input, he wanted it to sound like a male Hillary, smart, impressive, no sniffles and all the answers.
TonyPDX
(962 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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DFW
(54,414 posts)Like:
"Where is Canada?"
"How much is four plus three?"
"Who is buried in Grant's tomb?"
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Yavin4
(35,443 posts)Get over it. Life is not like right wing talk radio.
mahina
(17,672 posts)Appropriate questions for tRump:
How did you get so awesome?
Did you get a lot of action in the 80's? WINK
How fantastic is your company?
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)I can see why he was upset.
LisaM
(27,815 posts)Eleven minutes out of a half-hour interview that was only about emails? What host worth his or her salt would repeat a question that's already been addressed?
EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)Everyone knows that unfair and hostile questions never happen during the course of the presidency. Come January 22nd, it's a 4 year vacation. I mean, Obama's had it easy. No one has ever asked him unfair or hostile questions like "Where were you born?" or "is the long form of your birth certificate a forgery?"