John Danforth, member of debate commission, rebukes Trump and says his attacks are 'just wrong' [View all]
A member of the Commission on Presidential Debates said President Donald Trump's attacks on the commission are "just wrong," a rare rebuke coming from a member of an organization that strives to stay neutral.
Trump has repeatedly attacked debate moderators and the commission, falsely claiming during an interview on "Dumb Fux & Friends" on Tuesday that his matchup with former Vice President Joe Biden this week is "so set up," even though the debate topics and moderator were agreed to by both campaigns weeks ago.
"The president's apparent strategy is to challenge the validity of the election should he lose," John Danforth, a Republican and former US senator from Missouri who has been on the commission since 1994, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Tuesday. "We saw this strategy initially in his claims that mail-in ballots are the tools for massive election fraud. Now we see it as well in his assertion that the debates have been rigged by the commission to favor former Vice President Joe Biden."
Danforth noted that like other members of the commission he has maintained a "strict vow of silence" regarding personal feelings about the campaign, but now that the President and his supporters "have attacked the commission's integrity, I feel compelled to respond."
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