Hannity Floats Notion That Trump Should Back Out Of The Debate

[Tom of Temecula]

You know Hannity didn't do this without being directed to by Dear Leader. On this Monday's Hannity, while continuing to push the ridiculous notion that Biden will be replaced as the Democratic presidential nominee, and after being shot down on that assertion by his guest Mark Penn, Hannity suggested that maybe Trump should back out of the June debate after repeating the right-wing attack on Biden that he was supposedly "jacked up" during the State of the Union address.

HANNITY: It's obvious this guy is a mumbling bumbling stumbling fumbling, you know, can barely string sentences together, however, I do take Tomi's admonition really seriously. I think we'll see the return of jacked-up Joe. Whatever Joe drank, ate, took before the State of the Union, maybe it was just Red Bull and caffeine pills. I don't know.

Whatever it was, that was not the normal Joe. We never saw it before and we haven't seen it since. But we will see it for the debate. Now, there are some even saying Mark that Donald Trump might be wise to just pass on the first debate, wait until he's nominated, then debate him. What would you say to that?

Penn responded that maybe Trump should have "done some better negotiating" but he can't back out now "without really looking cowardly," which is true. You know he's looking for a way to get out of it or he wouldn't have his media surrogates like Hannity testing the waters for him and already making excuses for why he should back out of the June debate and pretend he'll debate later.

Link to tweet

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/hannity-floats-notion-trump-should-back

[cilla4progress]

1. I'm betting the orange lump of shit

passes

[cloudbase]

4. Passes on the debate, or just passes on?

[2naSalit]

8. Best case scenario...

Would be the latter.

[KS Toronado]

32. I hope he passes on one week before the election

[birdographer]

46. Why wait so long?

[KS Toronado]

64. No time left for the enemy to regroup

[birdographer]

65. Ah ha! Gotcha.

[2naSalit]

62. That would be best...

But two weeks after the convention wouldn't be bad either.

[Trueblue1968]

13. I wish Rumpy would pass away. All these pass phrases are coming fast.

Lets fill up this thread

[calimary]

29. Hey, either one.

But the second option is my favorite.

[Emile]

2. Starting to realize how bad Trump's sanity is.

[spanone]

3. Fuck hannity.

n/t

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Someone's afraid to defend his horrible record

and to show the public how much he has deteriorated in the last four years. And it ain't Joe.

[charliea]

23. Even his appearance!

After seeing TSF on recent TV interviews I note that his pride and joy (his hair) is looking more and more like loose straw glued to his head...

[birdographer]

50. I noticed that in a clip of the

interview where "Dr. Phil" gave him a free pass. It looked like there was half as much hair, and much of it looked broken off. Stress can really do a job on hair, and his was basically 25 strands in total wrapped in a beehive. I don't see how he could get a wig, I don't think they make any that work on him.

[unblock]

6. So he's admitting Joe is a formidable opponent and maybe a Red Bull and caffeine pills is all it takes to beat Donnie?

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Fox and all of them are a joke. And where do they come up w/ the Dems worried about Biden's chances in Nov.?

I just love this where they make up their own hash tags, their own manufactured news and then try to run w/ it as though it's real news, not Fake/Fox News propaganda.

[Farmer-Rick]

44. They have a very carefully crafted system of lies

During the day, they make up crap just in passing. As if it's just the news. Lies are just casually mentioned as fact.

Then in the evening, they get their talking heads to scream and rant about the lies made up during the day. They go on and on as if the world was coming to an end. They get their audience all worked up, always on the edge of hysteria.

This fear and hysteria keeps them coming back for more. It's like watching a horror show. It gives you a small adrenaline kick and makes you want more.

Then they turn off their televisions; put down their screens and it's quiet, like returning from a good night out. They are safe and sound in their homes but still they crave more of those lies.

[MOMFUDSKI]

9. The insiders know clown is losing it.

They must come up with a plan to keep him off that debate stage. We wait

[Prairie Gates]

10. Trump should tell his fun Shark Story for his opening statement

[ScratchCat]

11. Joe has no reason to debate a felon

It legitimizes Trump to debate him. Why the hell is Joe even considering it? Arghhhh.......

[Misery Business]

20. Neither can afford to give the appearance they're ducking the debate.

I don't expect Trump to back out at this point.

And Biden isn't in a position of strength himself. I'm sure the campaign realizes this is a toss-up election and one of the biggest concerns voters have about Biden is whether he has the stamina to do the job. If he refused to debate Trump, regardless of what the motive, it would not look good perception-wise. It absolutely would be framed as him ducking and hiding and neither candidate can afford that imagery with how tight the race is.

[Farmer-Rick]

45. The stinking Nazi can easily bow out

Fox and his stooges will give him cover. His cult will go with the spin. It won't hurt him much.

Biden shouldn't back down because a bully is always counting on others to give up first.

[Misery Business]

48. FOX might but that doesn't mean he can afford it.

[Farmer-Rick]

54. Yeah, it will hurt him some

But since they have a lot of plans to cheat, it maybe just a minor glitch. It didn't seem to affect his GOP nomination when he never went to any of those debates.

[Misery Business]

59. That's different because he already had a commanding lead in the primary.

The truth is, if Trump was up 10+ points vs Biden, he wouldn't be debating.

[returnee]

70. State-by-state legal attacks....

….is a crucial part of their plan, and perhaps seen as the key to winning. Our side’s legal teams have to be ready.

[Gore1FL]

34. The GOP has legitimized Trump to be a major party nominee.

Biden or the Dems have no power to add or detract from that move

[Deuxcents]

63. I have said the same thing, Scratch Cat.

[calguy]

12. We knew trump will never debate

His operatives laying the groundwork for that right now. Hannity will be followed by other talking yo-yo's, and trump will say he 'had' to withdraw, because the ground rules he agreed to are so unfair.

[Johnny2X2X]

14. LOL, this has everything to do with Trump and not Biden

They just saw what Trump is like now without a teleprompter. He rambles about nonsense like sharks eating boaters who have batteries in their boats.

The debate in 2 weeks will be a disaster for Trump, he's not prepared for it and he's not used to having to be unscripted and sound coherent.

[BComplex]

30. This is the point: without a teleprompter, trump is lost at sea...facing the sharks and wishing for electrocution!

He knows....everyone knows...he'll make a disastrous fool out of himself.

[birdographer]

52. AND be muted when his time is up

Nobody shuts Donnie off.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. He probably intends to anyhow

He didn't attend any of the primary debates why would he attend this one?

[Farmer-Rick]

47. Exactly

He can back out and the fawning media will give him cover.

[Initech]

16. If Trump is Hitler, Hannity is Goebbles.

[keep_left]

17. Trump is known to be an Adderall user. Last I checked...

...Adderall is a lot stronger than Red Bull and No-Doz. So Trump is afraid of debating an opponent who just chugged an energy drink? He must be one lousy debater...oh, yeah, that's the real reason he wants to back out!

[Lonestarblue]

18. At his rallies, Trump often leans hard on the podium, as if he needs it to prop himself up.

Whatever he takes to give himself energy for his appearances where all he has to do is read. Teleprompter may not work during a debate where he has to make sense.

[Farmer-Rick]

51. Remember the times

Where he reads the teleprompter directions to the speaker out loud? Anytime he says "Trump Says" you know he's wandered into reading the directions as part of his meanderings.

[Chili Pepper]

19. Trump backing out of the Debate?

That was the plan all along.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if he decides to debate, but I'm certainly not betting on it.

[Tribetime]

21. Yeah, Trump's leading right now.So there's no way he's gonna debate

[littlemissmartypants]

22. Hannity is clanging...

mumbling bumbling stumbling fumbling

Sounds like he has his own issues that need attention.

Clanging

What is it?
Clang association isn’t a speech disorder like stuttering. According to psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, clanging is a sign of a thought disorder — an inability to organize, process, or communicate thoughts.

Thought disorders are associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, although at least one recent study indicates that people with a certain type of dementia may also demonstrate this speech pattern.

Snip...

If you notice clanging in someone’s speech, especially if it becomes impossible to understand what the person is trying to say, it’s important to get medical help.

Clanging may be an indication that the individual is either having or about to have an episode of psychosis. During these episodes, people may hurt themselves or others, so getting help quickly is important.

https://www.healthline.com/health/clang-association#definition

[machoneman]

31. Oh, and do we wish he would hurt himself, severely!

[Hope22]

24. A ploy to get the orange one off the hook.

Let TSF back out but give Biden 30 minutes of airtime to speak to the people.

[BoRaGard]

25. Dodge the draft. Dodge the debate. How republican is that?

Repubes want to make SUCKERS AND LOSERS out of America, while they skip about sneakily, and fart in the face of actual moral courage.

[ClaudetteCC]

26. I look forward to the debates

and the stark differences laid bare for all to see

[hibbing]

27. Facist playbook, enemy is both weak and strong n/t

[czarjak]

28. "Work hard, play by the rules, you too can be a success in Ametica."

Said Sean while lying about believing that the 2020 election was stollen? WhoDaFuck do they think they're talking to, impervious imbiciles?

[OAITW r.2.0]

33. Why Sean? Don knows someone who went to MIT, so that means he is smart!

He obviously knows a lot about incandescent lightbulbs, toilets, batteries and windmills.

[global1]

39. And Now - Boats, Sharks & Electrocution.....nt

[central scrutinizer]

71. New lyrics to this classic!

[Jakes Progress]

35. Hannity is a talking shit dummy. He hates what America stands for.

He plans to make money on the destruction of our constitution.

[John Farmer]

36. Trump should definitely back out of any debate!

Otherwise, he risks exposure of his current mental condition.

[Permanut]

37. Come on, TSF, you can do this!

You're a stable genius, and smarter than all the generals combined, and everybody loves you.

These debates will be a piece of cake for you; just practice your stalking and you got this!

[dslyahoo]

38. There will be some excuse to back out.

Everyone should take every opportunity to call TSF a coward and his actions cowardly. If backing out is suggested by anyone, a laugh followed by calling him a coward over and over may prompt them all to “bully up”.

[ananda]

40. ROFL -- Why am not surprised?

[moose65]

41. Ugh

Hannity gets on my nerves more than most of the right wing “talent.” That smarmy, know-it-all attitude that reminds me of Don Jr….. yuck!

And in that quote, what he says about Biden - completely personal insults. I can handle political differences, but this is ridiculous. There is no left-leaning pundit who would do that to Trump. Another in a long list of double standards!

[onecaliberal]

42. Can we ever be lucky enough for it to be the second option?

[getagrip_already]

43. BAWK, bawk bawk, BAWWWK........

Cowards.

[lindysalsagal]

49. He's tight w tscf. He wouldn't discuss this without permission. I think this means tscf isn't showing

And I hope Biden still arrives and uses all of the time to self-debate the issues, and call tscf a total coward.

[Rebl2]

53. Figures

[apnu]

55. Do it Donald. Show everyone what a chickenshit you are.

[Silent3]

56. "It's obvious this guy is a mumbling bumbling stumbling fumbling..."

When I saw those words attributed to Hannity, my first thought wasn't that he was saying this about Biden, but that I was reading some Onion-esque parody of Hannity caught talking off-guard about Trump.

Once again, every accusation is a confession.

[keithbvadu2]

57. Anywhere. Anytime. Anyplace

[bullimiami]

58. He was never going anyway.

[keithbvadu2]

60. D'ya suppose Donald will play the sick card? After saying Hillary did not have the stamina.

The Donald who is such a magnificent physical specimen of humankind.

OK! on that one.

[Turbineguy]

61. Think of it like delaying a trial forever

because you are guilty.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

66. Who is surprised by this?

TFG's dementia is too severe to be allowed to debate

[DFW]

67. Translation into English from the original Republicanese

Republicanese: "Donald Trump might be wise to just pass on the first debate"

English: "Holy shit, I just spent some time with Trump and his mental deterioration is far worse that I had ever imagined possible. We can't let this vegetable debate Joe Biden. The venue would have to hire extra janitorial help after Joe Biden is finished mopping up the floor with Trump."

[brewens]

68. I'd be amused if Trump blew up over this. He does it to them all the time. Trump could indicate that was what he

wanted them to say then someone else tells him he has to debate or he convinces himself and screws them.

[B.See]

69. There problem with debates is that somewhere along the line

you might actually get confronted with THE FACTS.

AND MAGA'S antichrist can't be bothered with FACTS.

[republianmushroom]

72. One can understand why, it will be like a convicted felon guppy vs a shark.

Don't think the convicted felon guppy is going to show up.