Donald Trump Calls For No Debate Moderators As Pressure Mounts To Fact-Check Him

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

Source: Huffington Post

NEW YORK ― Since NBC’s Matt Lauer received widespread criticism for failing to fact-check Donald Trump at Wednesday night’s presidential forum, members of the public and press have been urging moderators for the upcoming debates to do better.

If the GOP nominee lies about being a vocal opponent of the Iraq War, as he did Wednesday and throughout the 2016 campaign, for instance, he should be called out.

Trump responded Monday to the Lauer controversy, and growing calls for the TV journalists steering the debates to challenge Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s 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 it’s going to be a very unfair debate. And I can see it happening right now. Everyone’s saying that [Lauer] was soft on Trump. Well now, the new person’s going to try and be really hard on Trump just to show the establishment what he can do. So, I think it’s very unfair what they’re doing. I think we should have a debate with no moderators, just Hillary and I sitting there talking.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-no-debate-moderators_us_57d6b4bae4b00642712e5dc9?

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Always trying to get a better deal, aren't you, Don the Con?

[saltpoint]

1. Trump wants to build a wall

around the debate moderators and make the debate moderators pay for it.

Trump respects nothing. I resent his candidacy on grounds of a long list of things, but high on that list is that his supporters want him in the Oval Office because his candidacy validates their limitations.

Trump is deplorable in and of himself but his supporters are deplorable, just as Hillary Clinton said they are.

[Divine Discontent]

2. awww... Donnie baby not happy about possibly getting it handed to him by Hillary in the debate

He's trying to screw with things constantly... He jumps all over the fricking map on every subject. I wouldn't be surprised if he feels he gets hammered in the first debate coming up, that he says they're rigged for her, and refuses to go back. He may even refuse to go if there's moderators, which of course there will be. He is not getting to yell over Hillary without any moderation telling him to shut his orange yamhead up!

[Iliyah]

3. Closer the debate date gets, the louder T-rump will get.

[saltpoint]

4. It would be refreshing to see Hillary

Clinton bulldoze this guy in the first debate. I'd like to see her draw on her vastly superior resume' and just bulldoze his sorry butt off the stage.

People watching the debate will see a formidable and accomplished adult on our side and on the Republican side, they'll see an ignorant blowhard, spasmodic and unable to focus.

[barbtries]

14. but they see that blowhard every day and love it.

there are a significant number of americans who apparently are jonesing for a strongman.

[bulloney]

19. The media will set the bar low for Trump. If he puts two coherent words together, he'll win

in the eyes of the media gerbils.

That's what they did with W and other low-IQ candidates in the past.

[saltpoint]

27. I'm fearful that they will do just that.

Trump has a personality, such as it is, which is tailor-made for reality television, but not the temperament for any of the difficult tasks a president needs in the real world.

The media lap up the high-drama moment and downplay (or ignore) the long-term issues.

[world wide wally]

5. A debate without a moderator is just a conversation.

He can talk to his kids anytime he wants.

[saltpoint]

6. Yep. He could even talk to Melania

if anybody knows where she is.

[world wide wally]

7. Maybe she's sick of him, but the kids are stuck

[saltpoint]

8. They are. They also know

where daddy's sugar trail of money leads.

The thought of their smug mugs on magazine covers for the next umpteen years is unsettling.

[William Seger]

11. Not necessarily

In a formal debate, there's a judge but he's not a moderator. The sides question each other after arguments and rebuttals, and it's up to the opponents to call out false assertions. Hillary must do that, even if the moderator doesn't.

[billpolonsky]

9. Wake up America!

Someone has to tell this entitled nitwit that he doesn't run the show.

[Hekate]

10. Coward

[awoke_in_2003]

20. He is going to bail on the debates. nt

[wheniwasincongress]

12. Lately I've been feeling like he would attend the first debate

but seeing this I'm flipping again! It's only 12 or 13 days away!

[barbtries]

13. the vision of any such "debate"

somehow reminds me of the o'reilly interview with jeremy glick

i mean aargh.

a bullying sociopath vs a reasonable person. oh no, there must be a moderator.

[ronnie624]

34. The historical record doesn't favor the right-wing view.

The last thing they want, is a discussion of the facts. They always make it personal, and their frustration makes them prone to violence. O'Reilly threatened Glick physically, after he was certain he was no longer being recorded.

[barbtries]

36. yeah i remember that.

o'reilly is a lot like trump actually - they may both suffer from their own versions of the same personality disorder.

[lillypaddle]

15. Without the lies

how can he fake his way through the questions? He'll have nothing to say. SAD!

[sarae]

16. What a little baby!!!

I've never seen anything so pathetic. He's absolutely petrified to debate her. Sad!!

[mnhtnbb]

17. Without a moderator it will turn in to each one calling the other a liar

Trump is pathologically incapable of telling the truth...so Hillary will have to call out his lies...he, in turn, will
lie about her and call her a liar for daring to confront him on his lies.

We get nowhere without someone to fact check.

[0rganism]

18. even more resemblance to that south park episode where wendy kicks the crap out of cartman

not gonna try for a synopsis or vod post here; if you've seen the episode i think you know what i mean. if you haven't then it's still worth a watch.

[Loki]

21. I think this is beginning to scare little Donnie.

Stay home and let Hillary have the debate stage all to herself. She'll do just fine while you'll look like the flabby-assed coward you really are.

[Historic NY]

22. Donald its called a debate, its not a rally.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Typical male business tactic is to talk over females in meetings.

I think he wants to be able to drown out her voice with no one to restrain him.

[jpak]

24. Fact check him

Lock him up

[Nitram]

25. Dump want to be in a ring with Clinton to go mano a mano with her.

He doesn't know from "debate."

[beachbum bob]

26. trump needs to find any excuse not to be on stage with hillary

she won't sit still for his lies and she will not allow the moderators to make it a witch hunt on her.....she is more than capable of destroying trump as will as the moderators......and trump knows it

so if a debate actually happens...I'll be surprised

[Agnosticsherbet]

28. Only a man born with a silver spoon up his ass

Would claim that anything except preferential treatment us unfair to him.

[PatSeg]

29. I thought for a minute this was an Onion article

When things don't go Donald's way, its "unfair", just like an eight year old child.

The way he speaks of himself in the third person is rather unnerving.

[icymist]

30. Everyone should start asking him what he's trying to hide without fact checks.

Only someone with something to hide would want no moderators digging into his statements.

[Paladin]

31. A debate with no moderators?

What do you expect, from a guy who's running a campaign with no intelligence or principles or civility---aided and abetted by a media who are making big, easy bucks off the insane remarks that Trump spews on a daily basis.

What the hell is it going to take to put a stop to this madness? I'm ready to take part in the closest available street riot, if that's what is called for. I want my country back.

[turbinetree]

32. Hey Donnie----------------

we the citizens of this country have the right mind you under the Constitution to have people there to question you and Clinton.
Maybe you can go on some infomercial and sell a scam, or you can get on stage a demean someone with disabilities, or you you can rant and rave about nationalists to suit your racists bigotry, and hire people to your election team, that think everything is a conspiracy in your brainless brain, and hired people on your team, that worked for Robert Mercer (Hedge Fund dude), who by the way funds Breitbart, then we the public have a right to know and a need to know.

But when it comes to having the codes for war, and the pen to nominate extremists to the bench, we have a right to know what you are going to do.

So go and take your silver spoon and T***l-------------you already have one of your cronies saying that its not his job to "fact check" you by the name of Chris Wallace from the propaganda sexist organization called Fix Noise (who by the way is worthless) so again take your silver spoon and S** on it, and T***l like a orange swirl ice cream on a stick


Bawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


And if you think the system is rigged as you call it, lets see your tax returns for starters , that's the first question, and the public will see how the system is rigged as you call it.

And then the second is your "contribution" to a not one but two state attorney generals and your issue with Trump U


Bawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Cracklin Charlie]

33. He's trying to take away good American jobs.

Lester Holt needs this gig, Assface!

[Sunlei]

35. trump didn't like the closeups with Lauer when his face was flushed & little nose veins so prominent

tiny hands white as snow.

[FigTree]

37. McDonnel to question Biff and Faulkner to question HC.

That'd make for a good spectacle.