2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump Calls For No Debate Moderators As Pressure Mounts To Fact-Check Him
Republican nominee takes another pre-emptive strike to protect himself from having to tell the truth.Trump responded Monday to the Lauer controversy, and growing calls for the TV journalists steering the debates to challenge Trumps and Hillary Clintons falsehoods, by proposing there should be no moderators at all.
I think, maybe, we should have no moderator, Trump said on CNBC. Let Hillary and I sit there and just debate. I think the system is being rigged so its going to be a very unfair debate. And I can see it happening right now. Everyones saying that [Lauer] was soft on Trump. Well now, the new persons going to try and be really hard on Trump just to show the establishment what he can do. So, I think its very unfair what theyre doing. I think we should have a debate with no moderators, just Hillary and I sitting there talking.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-no-debate-moderators_us_57d6b4bae4b00642712e5dc9
RoverSuswade
(641 posts)He will continue to make demands that can't be met so he will just pull out of the debates. Sokay with me - let the national audience hear from Hillary for 2 hours.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Dumb as he is even he knows he cannot out talk / or out-think HRC in any debate.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)You two are just going to have a little talk? No format, no one running things? A free for all?
Nice try, you weasel.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)and Trump's big mouth wins by simply out-talking everyone else.
Anyway, the thought is ridiculous, and Trump once again proves he's an asshole.
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)It's a productive hobby!
How did you find DU? Someday I hope this an answer.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)He should have no problem handling Hillary Clinton in a debate moderated by Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid. They're all chicks, in his eyes, so should be easy for a tough guy like him to handle.
Wounded Bear
(58,668 posts)typical Repub argument. Basically, he wants permission to run his free range fillibuster of bullshit that won't allow any talk about issues.
I'm with the posters above. Let him back out of the debates if he doesn't like the format that has been in place of almost every cycle since Kennedy/Nixon. He'll look like the bullying coward he is.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)he wants permission to run his free range fillibuster of bullshit that won't allow any talk about issues."
He's right about the rigging though. She's a hard working smartypants and he's a lazyass moron.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)would Clinton have the stage all to herself?
Damn, with this election and this unhinged, ReThug candidate, we're in uncharted, bizarre waters like I've never seen.
vadermike
(1,415 posts)Backs out it will hurt him
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)anamandujano
(7,004 posts)Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)abdicate their responsibility. Something new and different - why not try it? As if Don the Con would ever shut up.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)I guess she's a 'coward' , 'sexist, 'moron', too?
mythology
(9,527 posts)I think that suggestion by Clinton was silly, but neither she nor Obama were going to be talking about the size of Obama's penis (not a phrase I thought I'd ever write), or somebody was bleeding out of their where ever, or any of the other incompetent things Trump has said.
Clinton and Obama both said some silly things in the 2008 primaries, but they were and are fundamentally grown up people. Trump is an emotional toddler, which may be unfair to the toddler.
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)like Sean Hannity, Rudy Giuliani, or Vladimir Putin
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)You DO realize Hillary Clinton is a trained and proficient attorney, right? She'll get that stupid SOB to confess to all the crimes he's committed in front of all America.
Helpful hint, Don: "guards, take the defendant into custody" are not the words you want your opponent to end the debate with. But if you go in there and start debating her without a moderator, they'll happen.