George Stephanopoulos Brings House Down With First Thing He'd Ask At Biden-Trump Debate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos admitted it’s highly unlikely that he’ll moderate one of President Joe Biden’s newly announced presidential debates with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, given how Trump is currently suing Stephanopoulos for defamation.

But Stephanopoulos told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday that he’d be glad to take the gig. And the journalist earned a massive cheer from Colbert’s audience when he shared what his very first question to both candidates would be.

“Who won the last election?” Stephanopoulos said. “I hope that’s the first question.”

Trump, of course, continues to baselessly claim the 2020 election was stolen from him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-stephanopoulos-brings-house-down-100224747.html

[Retrograde]

1. I disagree

50 states and the District of Columbia certified the 2020 election results. Trump lost. Asking this question IMHO opens the door to doubt, that there may have been some irregularities that affected the result. It validates Donnie's position - and if you even let him get a toe in he's going to rampage through the entire underpinnings of our democracy. Don't give him even the slightest chance to repeat his lies.

[deRien]

4. Agree

It’s like when the media kept allowing the issue of Obama’s birth certificate to be rehashed for years.

[unblock]

6. Very much like that. And he was proven to have lied and was allowed to just drop it and move on

Zero accountability. A remotely responsible media would have said hey you got us to waste all that ink and airtime over literally nothing, you never even had investigators in Hawaii you lied about everything and you knew it was all a lie. No more air time for you, nothing without triple verification.

Yeah right. The media thought cool, use and abuse us more please, our reputation means nothing.

[Ligyron]

11. He shouldn't even be debating him.

Trump is an accused criminal under indictment in multiple jurisdictions for multiple crimes. He tried to overthrow our government and the will of the people and install himself king. He’s an insurrectionist.

Don’t even give him air.

[harumph]

27. I agree. The man is a POS.

Debating implies that this is sort of normal. It's not. Trump is the tip of the spear for an oligarchic takeover.

[wnylib]

14. Good point. Trump might bring it up himself,

but it's not good to introduce the topic as a question.

[SayItLoud]

15. Totally agree. 1st Question should be:

Do you consider the what took place at our Nation's Capital on Jan.6 good or bad for American Democracy?

[sop]

26. I would ask Trump why he incited the mob to storm the Capitol on January 6.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

17. Couch it as a request for their opinion.

"Who do you think won the last election?

That way it's not about what happened, but what are their states of mind on the matter.

Trump would come off looking dishonest or delusional to most people, and Biden would tell the truth.

[Roy Rolling]

24. This 👆

A debate / contest / election is meaningless to TFG—why play debate when every answer will be he’s willing to participate in an election he already calls a sham.

The suggestions write there’s a better question. There isn’t one. The only best question is to not ask the idiot one to begin with. It’s pointless. He’s a moron playing the role of a fascist because he’s in debt.

[rurallib]

2. That would be a good place to use those fact-checkers

Trump will be crying about soon.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Anyone who doesn't think Slobby is going to lie the entire debate no matter the questions is a fool.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. It's tough to debate a pathological liar. Best to push his buttons and get him to lose focus.

[unblock]

5. Not a good question, as such.

Unless it's followed up with the goods. Because that one is yesterday's news and we all know he claims it was stolen.

Here a better one: where's the proof? You've had nearly 4 years and not a shred of evidence. You can't even tell us in what way it was stolen? Which vote totals were wrong? Did they count wrong? Or did some people vote in the wrong state or more than once?

How is it that years later you still have zero evidence?

[erronis]

8. Yes. Replace the question with "Mr. Trump, if you still think the election was stolen, where is the proof?"

[consider_this]

28. Better question, but...

he'd just rattle off the same series of boldfaced lies and that will be enough for MAGAs or uniformed to suck it in, so no.
Give this shit no air.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. How about...

Do you still believe that you won the last election now that President Biden is running against you again?

[et tu]

9. i like his question

it's basic and the maga base might actually understand the question.
plus there are still a lot in congress who need to 'move on'.

[usonian]

10. It's like the story of WWII soldiers challenging a potential impostor: "Who's President of the United States?"

That still works today, though we sadly don't send people who get it wrong to the brig.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Flag-pin obsessed Stupidfuckadous says what?

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN17402560/

Some of us don't and won't forget.

He should never be near any debate, let alone as a moderator, ever again.

[Traurigkeit]

13. Stephanopoulos is not a journalist. He is now a "Got'cha" reporter. Only looking for ratings.

Actual facts be damned.

[bagimin]

29. Say what??

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. I have hundreds of questions better than that

Mr Trump, you claim that you declassified all of the documents that you removed from the White House.

WHY would you declassify secrets about our nuclear weapons, strengths and weaknesses of our allies defenses, identities of our secret intelligence assets, war plans, and a host of other things useful to our adversaries? And why would you share these secrets with people who did not have security clearances?

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Here's the video of his appearance with Colbert for those who missed it:

Stephen Colbert: Guest George Stephanopoulos
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132223209

[Takket]

20. "Who is the current President?" Would be even funnier

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

21. Trump will answer "I won"

And there will be a million flabbergasted media think pieces about “how DARE Trump would say that” and “omg how unprecedented” and Stephanopolis will feign outrage and surprise. (If he indeed is legitimately surprised or outraged, then I proffer that he’s to damn naive for his job, but what do I know?)

Biden will comment that the Dow hit 40k under his watch, and the media will lambast him for being braggadocios.

After that, the head editor of the NYT will pen an op-ed about how the American public deserves what they get, but don’t forget to resubscribe to Wordle!

[Seinan Sensei]

22. Let's see

If tRump won the last election, then that means he has won two elections.
He cannot run for a third term

[czarjak]

23. 2016 was rigged until it wasn't.

[BoRaGard]

25. Q. for all G.O.P. candidates: "Do your support The Big Lie?"

Yes or no.

[Justice matters.]

30. My first question to TSF would be: "why did you show our military secrets to..."

"people who were not authorized to see them, and told them you could not show these because you're not the president anymore"

[jaxexpat]

31. Exactly what does that gain Biden supporters?

What's Joe going to say but, "I won it". Trump would turn the response into a shit show at which time the current president should calmly remind the audience beyond the cameras he has more important things to do than listen to Trump's ravings and then just walk away.

[Festivito]

32. Why no evidence to this day in 60+ stolen-election lawsuits causing your lawyers to be disbarred?

That is what I have been asking my friends. BTW, my first post in years and years.