Chris Wallace has announced the topics for the first presidential debate, on September 29th:
— David Gura (@davidgura) September 22, 2020
The Trump and Biden Records
The Supreme Court
Covid-19
The Economy
Race and Violence in our Cities
The Integrity of the Electionhttps://t.co/SUpfGJYN5p
The conflation of race with violence is absolutely disgusting. Shame on Wallace and the commission.
— Brian Hurn (@brianhurn) September 22, 2020
Why did Chris Wallace publish the topics for first Presidential Debate? So Trump could learn something about each subject in advance?
— BMLewis (@BMLewis2) September 22, 2020
Oh no. By Trump’s own rules, he’s now disqualified because he knows the questions
— Ryan Paulsen (@rpaulsenphoto) September 22, 2020
The Trump campaign keeps proposing ridiculous pre-debate inspections to feed conspiracy theories, and Fox News plays them all up. pic.twitter.com/vIJN5W1LUN
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 29, 2020
Based on what I’m seeing on Twitter it appears the debate has been canceled and Trump now wants to do live searches of Biden’s orifices on TV. Do I have that right?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 29, 2020
— Kate (@clack_bonnie) September 29, 2020
The President suggests his opponent will receive an injection of performance enhancing drugs “in the ass” before the debates pic.twitter.com/sXOGjrFltp
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 19, 2020
"They'll give him a shot of something ... we want a drug test" -- Trump accuses Joe Biden of juicing like Barry Bonds circa 2002 or something pic.twitter.com/M3Ym0AuwAd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 23, 2020
The President again suggests his opponent will receive an injection of drugs before the debates and calls for a drug test pic.twitter.com/V7hY8zTusE
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 23, 2020
I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night. Naturally, I will agree to take one also. His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly. Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2020
"I'm not joking" -- Trump says he's serious that he thinks Joe Biden is juicing pic.twitter.com/IPFaaQUC4J
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2020
"A lot of people have said that, a lot of people have written that ... just check out the internet, you'll see" -- Trump tries to provide evidence for his claim that Joe Biden is on performance enhancing drugs pic.twitter.com/SVuSI8zdVM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2020
Sean Hannity brings on Dr. Ronny Jackson, former White House physician turned Trumpy congressional candidate, specifically to accuse Biden of using PEDs:
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 29, 2020
"But I think it’s reasonable to ask if he’s taking medications to help him with his alertness and his memory." pic.twitter.com/HFqtBgsjKB
Pretty sure Dr. Feel-good here also crashed a government vehicle while drunk or high. https://t.co/pN3YGSLnhg
— robyn (@handcranked) September 29, 2020
This is a re-run pic.twitter.com/Gku6uSWBSG
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) September 27, 2020
"He puts a lid. I did not know what the hell a lid is & I have only been doing this for 3 & a half years...he's lidding up...they'll give him a big shot & he'll go out there - Trump devotes multiple minutes of his speech to attacking Joe Biden for spending a day doing debate prep pic.twitter.com/jNjzPNtTC5
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2020
This is the second time tonight I’ve seen Fox News attempt to prep the President for the debates pic.twitter.com/jUXMuccepV
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 29, 2020
why would he need a response to something he’s handled perfectly that is also a hoax and going away https://t.co/CyL5Xt04GE
— kilgore trout, $750 (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 29, 2020
Trump: "The way she was helping him along with those it was so obvious what was going on. She was helping him. She was giving him a question and then helping him to answer the question. I know her very well. ... It was embarrassing and people don’t talk about it. ..." 1/2
— allan wood (@allanjameswood) September 29, 2020
"The answers where he wasn’t able to give an answer and she’s pushing him. She’s pushing him. They never do that with me, I can tell you, but I don’t have the kind of problems he has. ... You can’t have a president that needs that kind of help." 2/2 https://t.co/e32HcSoIQv
— allan wood (@allanjameswood) September 29, 2020
President Trump: Chris Wallace Will Take It Easy On Biden During Debate https://t.co/axzYk06i5K #OANN pic.twitter.com/i4cKWuf6Mc
— One America News (@OANN) September 24, 2020
Washington Post, September 28, 2020: "Trump's Campaign Is Making Up Fake Debate Excuses In Advance. Sound Familiar?"[COMMENTARY] Trump Says Debates Will Be “Unfair”, Claims Wallace Will Go Easy On Biden https://t.co/FWlEgbKvN4
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) September 24, 2020
Shortly after former vice president Joe Biden clinched the Democratic Party's nomination for the 2020 presidential race, President Trump and his allies invested heavily in a particular line of argument. Biden was old and enfeebled, they asserted, and could barely function physically or intellectually.Over and over, they made this argument, even releasing ads compiling snippets of Biden stumbling over words. There was no small irony to attacking Biden as old or prone to misstatements, of course, but it was the strategy they dropped like a blanket over the political conversation.Then the Democrats held their convention and Biden was obviously not the caricature that his opponents had suggested. So Trump pivoted: Clearly, then, Biden was cheating.Over and over again, this was the mantra. Biden was using performance-enhancing drugs of some sort, Trump claimed, demanding a drug test. It's an extremely weird claim, presuming that Olympic-style rules should apply to everyday situations, and one without any evidence. (At a news conference on Sunday, Trump insisted that the claim could be proved if one were to "check out the Internet.")As Tuesday's debate neared, the claim got more specific: Biden would be using an earpiece during the debate to take instruction from aides and allies. As of writing, it's the top story on Fox News's website . . . Trump's campaign demanded that Biden reject the use of drugs and earpieces, a request that Biden laughed off. . . .[T]his mirrors the Trump campaign's election strategy more broadly.What Trump's team wants to do with these allegations is twofold. First, they want to disparage Biden as a cheater and untrustworthy. Second, they want to have an excuse for Biden doing better than Trump's supporters might expect. That exchange in which Biden damaged Trump? Well, that was just because he had an earpiece or was on Adderall.This is precisely what's happening with Trump's focus on mail-in voting. He and his allies are broadly asserting that such ballots can't be trusted, despite the complete absence of evidence that there's any broad effort to rig voting and the absence of evidence that any such scheme could work. Trump keeps insisting that Democrats are actively promoting absentee voting so the election can be stolen — a clunky effort to impugn his political opponents as cheats.But, then, there's that second reason: Insisting falsely that mail-in ballots are rife with fraud gives Trump an excuse for any loss. . . .What he's doing with the debate and what he's doing with the election are the same thing. In each case, he's asserting that his opponents cheat, and in each case, that gives him the space to claim victory regardless of the outcome. Of course, we shouldn't be surprised by this. It's how Trump approaches politics in general, wildly disparaging his opponents and injecting as much uncertainty as possible about objective facts.
(A Case Of 'Takes One To Know One'?)
“We even hired a Faux-Bama, or fake Obama, to record a video where Trump ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him, a kind of fantasy fulfillment that it was hard to imagine any adult would spend serious money living out”(24)
— CHUNTERKAP (@chunterkap) September 12, 2020
I can’t wait for the 1st debate where @JoeBiden’s calm demeanor, decency and rational thinking will be on display against @realDonaldTrump’s endless stream of disjointed rambly nonsense, mixed in with slurring, bizarre body spasms, insane lies, and unhinged lunacy.
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) September 21, 2020
“Trump told me that America intervenes in other country’s elections all the time, even overthrowing regimes in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, so what was wrong with the Russians trying to influence the American election?”(31)
— CHUNTERKAP (@chunterkap) September 15, 2020
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