Trump’s Team Overruled Him on Debate Rules Out of Sheer Desperation

https://newrepublic.com/post/185480/trump-team-harris-debate-rules-muted-mics

37 Comments

  1. Poor old Don is being railroaded and has no say in the direction of his own campaign. Very sad!

  2. How cynical, greedy and corrupt do you have to be to work for him? You know this evil idiot fool can’t control himself for 90 minutes, yet you want him to lead this nation. his team hates America so much.

  3. I wouldn’t have thought I would agree with Trump on anything but I agree wholeheartedly that his mic should be left on. His team is filled with a bunch of cowards.

  4. Moist_Albatross_5434 on

    Dementia Dons handlers won’t let him do what he wants. This is sad, elder abuse really. 

    It’s criminal what they are doing to him, parading him around to ramble incoherently on stage for hours at a time, making ABC mute his mic so he can’t speak his mind. 

    His handlers should be jailed.

  5. Sunshinehappyfeet on

    Trump is slurring his words with increased frequency.

    He seems to grow older as each day passes.

    Trump’s campaign family/staffers should be held accountable for elder abuse.

  6. What’s to stop Kamala just point blank asking him at the start of the debate if he wants to keep the mics on? No way he declines and risks looking scared

  7. The_Woman_of_Gont on

    There are still eleven days for him to get his way. I hope he does. It would make the implosion far more likely, and far worse.

  8. trump will come down with syphillis at the last moment and will have to back out of the debate and stay home in a bed of cheeseburgers

  9. Old man can’t even manage his own staff, and we’re supposed to believe he can run a country?

    Put him down, boys. It’s time for Old Yeller to go behind the barn.

  10. MeatPrestigious3597 on

    Everyone needs to call him a pussy and he’ll go for the unmuted mics. His ego can’t handle it.

  11. I don’t get it. What is Trump to these people that it’s so hard to not do his bidding? Did they all have to act this way to get the paycheck? Do they not see how the world is seeing all these people? Its like he is filming some kind of crazy show and not telling anyone.

  12. Will be fun if Harris kicks it off by challenging him to agree then and there to unmute them.

  13. So if trump wins the election who then occupies the Oval Office? Trump? Or his team of handlers?

  14. Honestly, they are probably understandably scared shitless that something will happen and that it will all go down the drain.

    Knowing Trump, he’s probably not going to agree to these measures and will ask for open mics.

  15. I have a feeling that Trump is probably gonna force them to give into his demands for open mics. He will, trust me.

    Because when he never follows suggestions or anything like that. He will also push for open mics.

  16. Weird they think it will work. He will just go off on tangents and ignore the questions entirely. Watch.

  17. He’s like Mr Magoo and his campaign staff occasionally has to nudge him just so to prevent him from walking off a tall unfinished skyscraper.

  18. TraditionalProduct15 on

    Elder abuse! Lol. 

    Fucking dumbass Republicans and their dementia riddled wanna be dictator. 

  19. What’s great is that Kamala Harris is going to call him out on the stage, put him in a corner, and he will say on the debate stage to unmute his mike. It’s going to be a bad look for him regardley what his handlers do

  20. How is he suppose to run a country when he can’t even call the shots in his own camp. This is weakness and weird that a wannabe tyrant is nothing more than a poser.

  21. Kamala should just ask at the start of the debate if he wants to keep them un-muted. He is super easy to bait

  22. I wonder if he said something really out of pocket while his mic was muted last debate ? Like something his team heard, but never got picked up by Bidens Mike ?

  23. One part of this that is only getting traction on Fox and other right wing sites is that Trump’s team also keeps trying to hit Harris for wanting ‘notes’. Same as they did Biden.

    Seems to me that of course notes about facts and statistics should be available to make a debate actually meaningful. They don’t want notes because Trump just spews out whatever lies cross the top of his peanut brain anyway, so facts are irrelevant.

    This is also the reason they hate factcheckers. Truth is bad for the GOP.

  24. According_Smoke1385 on

    Hey ABC – just tell his team whatever they want to hear. Then do what you want at the debate. Seems to be how they got into Arlington.

  25. I want to point out that **no previous candidate in history has needed the mic muted**. Before Trump got involved in politics, this just *wasn’t a thing*.

    I think that leaving the mics unmuted is meant to be a **return to normalcy** and we absolutely should do it.

    It has nothing to do with who the candidates are, and everything to do with who we are as a nation. We don’t do debates this way. We never have. Why are we suddenly changing our ways?

  26. We can’t trust this man to keep his mouth shut for a minute at a time, how will we trust him as President.

  27. i’m not really one for watching debates but damn it i really wanna see this one. may have to get some popcorn and beer and enjoy this one-sided shitshow.