And Trump naively walked into it
No, he didn’t.
Imagine if he hadn’t accepted.
Georgie boy was Clinton’s press officer.
Trump knew he needed to do it, if nothing else, to show himself in high contrast to Biden. His voters won’t care about his performance there, and a few “uncommitted” or “undecided” might have enjoyed it. Most people who don’t like Trump have never ever heard one thing straight from him — they only watch the news.