Rated FALSE-Did Clinton rig primary debates against Sanders & presidential debates against Trump?

[riversedge]

PolitiFact ?@PolitiFact 4h4 hours ago St Petersburg, FL

Did Clinton rig primary debates against Sanders & presidential debates against Trump? http://bit.ly/2aFgL0O

#The DNC hack showed you that the Clinton campaign was working to schedule (primary) debates against (Bernie) Sanders," and the Clinton campaign is continuing this "ploy" against Donald Trump.

— Paul Manafort on Sunday, July 31st, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"







Trump campaign wrong about Clinton influence on debates against Sanders, Trump

By Linda Qiu on Sunday, July 31st, 2016 at 6:36 p.m.

Chuck Todd interviews Paul Manafort, chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, on "Meet the Press" July 31, 2016.

The day after Hillary Clinton wrapped up the Democratic nomination for president, Republican rival Donald Trump was already accusing her of "rigging" the presidential debates to coincide with NFL games in the fall.

"As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games. Same as last time w/ Bernie. Unacceptable!" Trump tweeted.

Trump doubled down on his charge Sunday, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he "got a letter from the NFL saying this is ridiculous" (which the NFL denies).................

[Cha]

2. Of course she didn't.. that's just another damn whiny lie tweeted from the fraudster.

Thank you, rivers!

[riversedge]

7. Spreading the Hillary truth. Hi.

[Cha]

8. Hi~

[sheshe2]

3. KnR

Night~

[Hekate]

4. Benedict Donald can't stop whining

[betsuni]

5. K&R

[grubbs]

6. So tired of hearing

Grown ass men using the term "rigged". Now people at work are starting to say it every time something doesn't go their way. I wonder if they will say I rigged it when I finally snap and monkey stomp them?
Rigged is a bit overused is all I'm saying. And apparently I need to lay off the coffee.

[riversedge]

10. yes, agree -it is so so so..overused

[Ford_Prefect]

9. I thought I read that Debbie made the schedule for the DNC primary debates, not Hillary.

But then it's ludicrous to expect Paul Manafort to speak factually in a public forum. I'm not convinced he knows the difference.

Although I am quite certain he knows the meaning of the word "rigged" from prior personal experience.

[Lord Magus]

11. Why the hell was this not given a "pants on fire"?

As usual Trump's statements weren't just wrong, they were nonsensical whoppers.

[B Calm]

12. Our Ruling

Manafort said, "The DNC hack showed you that the Clinton campaign was working to schedule debates against Sanders" and the Clinton campaign is continuing this "ploy" against Trump.

Experts agree the Democratic primary debate schedule was more advantageous to Clinton than Sanders, but there is no evidence in the DNC emails that show Clinton conspired to make this happen.

As for the notion that Clinton rigged the presidential debate schedule ahead of the general election, experts told us it’s pretty absurd. The commission that plans the debates released its schedule six months before the NFL released theirs, and almost a year before Clinton and Trump became the Democratic and Republican nominees.

We rate Manafort’s claim False.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/31/paul-manafort/trump-campaign-chief-dnc-leak-proves-clinton-campa/

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13. It was too obvious...