I hope Biden is being prepped for trump to level some unfounded allegation against him in the debate

[onecaliberal]

It’s going to be completely unhinged. I hope the moderators are prepared to handle this as well. They’re no longer pretending and they don’t give a rats ass if it’s illegal.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Given Trump's tendency to wallk away when confronted

by a question he doesn't want to answer, it will be astonishing if he stays the entire debate. I also hope they have them standing behind podiums at least six feet apart. No chairs. And that every time Trump doesn't answer a particular question, the moderators keep going back to that question.

[BootinUp]

2. Itll be rapid fire. Every time he opens his mouth

[Girard442]

3. Biden should be mentally prepared for ANYTHING.

Up to and including being physically attacked.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

6. By trump?...

Couple good or maybe not so good dance steps around him and trump would be flat on his face.
He muffed walking down a ramp chasing a tiptoeing President Biden would be worth the price of admission.

[Girard442]

11. True, but remember how Trump physically menaced Hillary?

He’s crazier than that now.

[EndlessWire]

14. Oh, absolutely I remember that!

SNL made big fun of it! I remember him dry humping the back of a chair, as well.

Joe has to be prepared for some physical thing Trump will do, even if only to ask the moderator to warn Rumpy to keep back.

I would be interested in hearing some retort by Joe for the inevitable drug-in-the-ass comment from Trump. Something snappy, more than "I don't need them." Something related to Trump's hair transplants, which hurt him so much he raped his wife and beat her up, or maybe the bone spurs. Maybe he could just ask him which feet the bone spurs were in. Remind everyone Trump didn't go to Viet Nam because of bone spurs. Ask him if he still has them.

I think Joe could just stand there and outshine Donald. No one is going to be watching to hear comparative policies. No, we'll be watching like it's a sporting event. Let's have Joe tell Trump to bend over for his shot, since he knows so much about that subject.

[Buckeyeblue]

16. I agree. I could see where Trump might think pushing Biden would make him look strong

[Mike 03]

4. He should be prepared to cite authorities when he goes low, if he must.

If accused of cognitive decline, Biden must be prepared to discuss Trump's mental state. There are dozens of highly respected psychiatrists who have gone on record. There is an entire organization called "Duty to Warn" that is devoted completely to this subject, and four or five books that I'm aware of. He should recommend people watch the documentary #UNFIT.

If Trump brings up drug use, Biden should cite reports from Noel Casler that Trump abuses drugs. Casler was on the set of The Apprentice and claims to have current sources on this.

Thanks to recent government reports, he can actually NAME THE INDIVIDUAL who is funneling Kremlin disinformation to Giuliani and Senator Johnson. He can turn this around and accuse the Trump campaign of aiding Putin in trying to destroy American democracy.

[onecaliberal]

9. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

That’s exactly what he need to do. He needs to humiliate trump on every level.

[Sogo]

10. Excellent points and well stated!

[Aristus]

5. I imagine that 75% of Joe Biden's debate prep

is going to consist of drills and scenarios dealing with Trump’s unhinged craziness.

Nothing Trump says anymore is unexpected. The shit he spews may not necessarily have lost their shock value, but they have lost their novelty value. Biden will be prepared to counter whatever deranged shit Trump is going to come up with.

[LAS14]

7. I'm sure he's prepared for Trump to ONLY level unfounded allegations. What else..

... would he expect??

[Hortensis]

8. Name one person who knows these people better.

As the Democratic VP to President Obama, he, Obama, and everything they tried to do were under constant, vicious, destructive attack. Over 50 years, Biden was involved extremely up close and personal as the Republican Party and the rest of America's RW powers degraded, became completely corrupted, and re-form into a grave anti-democracy, white power and Christian extremist threat to our nation.

I doubt there's a major book or living expert on what happened to Germany and other democracies that fell to, and peoples who were subsequently destroyed by, RW authoritarians that Biden hasn't read and discussed this with.

[Sogo]

12. The thing I'm concerned about - and I have no knowledge if this is even a thing -

but I'm concerned that Trump will keep interrupting Joe or try to use other tactics to get him to stutter or sound tentative.

I just recall that he kept interrupting and talking over Hillary....

[JI7]

13. Biden should also think of how to respond if he brings up Hunter

or some other family or closer friend.

[dawg day]

15. I think it was Carville who said that Biden has to be prepared for some insult about his kids

That bullies like Trump will say something that strikes so hard that no one could resist getting furious.

But I don't know that will work for Trump.

The people who admire bullies are already voting for him.