Posted on 09/30/2016 1:12:48 PM PDT by grundle
Donald Trump’s microphone was faulty, the Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed in a statement Friday.
“Regarding the first debate, there were issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall,” the commission stated in a Friday press release.
Almost immediately after Monday’s presidential debate, Trump began complaining about the quality of the microphone — saying that he didn’t have the “sniffles,” he just had bad equipment.
“No! No sniffles,” Trump told Fox News Channel in a Tuesday morning interview. “No. You know, the mic was very bad but maybe it was good enough to hear breathing.”
“But no sniffles, no cold,” he added.
Trump’s microphone issues appear only to have affected the sound in the Hofstra University debate hall, however, and not the record-setting audience watching at home.
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Anyone that thinks those mics weren’t checked out to work exactly as planed before the event, is in need of serious help.
This was no mistake. I’m just surprised they admitted it.
Well, Debate Commission....
HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN?
Find the person responsible. Such a person is gravely sick to the point that his tongue might be in danger of falling out.
More SABOTAGE—along with a “moderator” who asked questions only about trivia, and the hand-signals between Crooked Hillary and the crooked “moderator”!
Trump won anyway!! And he went up in the polls, too!!!!
I don’t buy it.
I can set up a working microphone in our church in about two shakes.
No way that these pros could not do that.
No one can tell me it wasn’t intentional.
I won’t even accept awful negligence. We have little kids put our microphones on occasion.
Happens on Monday, becomes a public issue all week where Trump is made to look like a conspiracy kook. But the “bipartison” commission chooses to wait to announce “yeah, it’s true” until Friday when nobody is paying attention. Sure, they look innocent in all this.
Well, obviously you and your church set up is much more “professional” shall we say, than those who set things up for a presidential debate.
Hillary’s mike was ok, wasn’t it?? How was it that only Trump’s mike had problems??? HMMMMMM..........
Uh, I beg to differ...
Who is on the debate commission and what are exactly supposed to be doing? This was a fundamentally simple thing to check. I’m sure they had spares too.
Trump has got to bring his own staff of engineers to tear apart his setup at the next debate.
I suppose there was no “intent.” /sarc
Don’t buy it either.
If the mic passed the final sound check before going live, what happened?
My money is on the “defective mic” being created at the sound board via the numerous controls by a sound tech at the direction of the stage mgr/ director.
I couldn’t believe when, after watching a few videos, those podiums were left, unattended, unchecked before the debate began. No security to prevent tampering whatsoever.
Next debate: do a podium/lecturn check, as well as a frisk of Trump and Hitlery, including ear check. No wires, no little pieces of equipment, no throat lozenges.
Also, have Hitlery give her nose one good scratch before they get underway.
Yet the moronic Doctor Howard Dean’s medically assessment it was crack, and the side effects was sniffles.
I heard his sniffles; but my hearing is one of those kinds
that picks up the “Taos Hum” even from a fluorescent light.
I thought it humanized him. Hitler-y looked like a statue
all decked out in a BRIGHT RED ORANGE suit that looked like
a neon prison outfit.
For instance; if the second debate is a town hall type debate with the audience asking questions, they should make sure the 'audience' is not all loony Libs. The mikes should be checked and Hill checked for 'ear pieces'.
I was thinking Trump’s mic didn’t have a noise-gate on it, hence the sniffing sounds of him breathing.
Vote Trump 2016
95% of the public who heard the erroneous sniffles will not get the word that Trump's microphone was tampered with.
Man, you can't make this stuff up. The audacity of the cheating leftists. You can bet they will have no inhibitions about playing games on election day at the voting machines.
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