Posted on 03/05/2016 8:17:48 AM PST by John W
Donald Trump consulted with his campaign manager during the first commercial break at Thursday night's Republican debate, violating ground rules from Fox News stating that candidates would not be allowed to have contact with their campaigns, rival campaign sources told CNNMoney.
While that exchange was the clearest violation of debate rules to date, the sources said, it followed a pattern: At multiple debates, Trump has consulted with his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski backstage even though it was expressly forbidden by the networks.
Thursday night's debate in Detroit marked a new extreme, however, as Lewandowski went directly onto the stage to meet with Trump during the commercial break. As in previous debates, Fox News had explicitly informed the campaigns that candidates were not allowed to communicate with their campaign staff during commercial breaks, the sources said.
When Lewandowski was asked by Fox News staff to leave the stage, he refused to do so, according to a source at Fox News.
Lewandowski and Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks did not respond to requests for comment.
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That would be mean, and Romney can’t do mean when it comes to the opposition. Only to people who make up the Republican Party voters, and those they reject from gaining control within the party even though the voters wanted that person.
And what make him different than Rubio or Obama. Cruz can think on his feet. But he is not too likable. The press will eat him up.
WOW, backatcha!
Since when do Megyn Kelly rules and FOX “rules” trump the Constitution in a comparison??
LOL!
The joint was packed against TRUMP, as well as four other contenders and a 3-man panel of FOX assassins, posing questions based on lies, and with “RULES” not allowing proof to be presented to the contrary of their propaganda and LIE laying effort.
He doesn’t have a 10B company. Maybe 2.5 B. He used dad’s millions and Tammany Hall liberal Democrat connections and rode them. If the media hadn’t built up his reputation, you would never have heard of him.
If you think he has any clue about issues, you haven’t been watching the debates. The man cannot give a coherent answer to any policy question. Is it Alzheimer’s? Or does he think he can just bluff his way through? In either event, the Democrats won’t let him get away with it this fall. They’ll also hammer him with his mob connections, his endorsements of Hillary, and his business/legal failures.
I would think they all do this. I wouldn’t consider the advisers being near for a phone interview any type of “allegation”. Now, the comment that he prefers phone interviews because of this is an opinion that probably can’t be proven. We’re still allowed to have opinions about these guys until such time as Trump makes it illegal-at least about him.
THANKFULLY, since the entire hall is stacked against him, the FOX panelists, the audience full of your guy’s donors, that TRUMP knows the anatomy and *can” land a punch to the kidneys!
You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
Fail.
He's the real argument:
1. Trump is not a man of his word.
2. Trump needs someone to tell him what his position is. Every day. Because it is variable.
Stinky maybe but an opinion none the less. Still allowed I think.
Valerie Jarrett, meet Corey Lewandowski, the next President of the United Sates.>>>>>
AMEN, brunt!
If this is the case, why would he break the rules, he wanted advice on how to respond to certain questions? Isn’t this a form of cheating? Breaking the rules is okay because it’s Trump? When the clintons do it, they get lambasted, don’t they.
I think Trump should get get a special dispensation for breaking the “rules” of a debate where 5 yapping hyena’s were tasked with trying to take down a lion
Right, 'cuz never since the beginning of political time have people gone after the front runner.
Not a big deal.
Ha!HA!HA!
In your wildest dreams. Masochists kind of like a public gang beat down, huh? The gang shrinks. Every time.
TRUMP ROCKS!
These people are reduced to imaginings, wishful thinking, speculation and a brain search for evidence that is never there.
A work of psychological study of lost hope leading to now intellectual vacuum.
:)
I like a GOP candidate who doesn’t play by ANY rules. Trump reportedly has a team of private eyes in Arkansas, D.C. and New York in search of nastiness to use against Hill and Bill, Prepare yourselves.
>>>We’re still allowed to have opinions about these guys until such time as Trump makes it illegal-at least about him<<<
Seriously?
Well, okay.
Opinion, not based in fact.
Trump was living in Trump Tower when his dad died.
Your logical fallacy is that you base your comment on the assumption that this country has time for you to demonstrate that FundamentallyFair received a passing grade in intro to philosophy 101, or that it cares.
The comment was fundamentally ... not good, not bad, but fair.
Pass: C+.
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