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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I wonder if the consultation was about getting the Better Business “A” rating faxed in.
Seems there was new info coming in that Fox was lying and withholding info. So they broke the rules.
In some ways Donald was justified in breaking that rule, because the approach of the moderators was that of aggressive prosecution. The hosts were throwing every stone, every potentially poison dart they could find. The hosts were not conducting themselves like proper debate moderators.
I wonder if Fox’s use of graphics and videos, all targeted at Trump by the way, were spelled out in the ‘rules’.
it is TEGWAR
The Exciting Game Without Any Rules
See...now your talking...have they used them before? I don’t think so...
They ‘violated’ their own rules...
Trump gave them the copy of his BBB sheet on Trump University, to show he had an A from them, but yet it didn’t promote what Fox News Moderators had planned, so they didn’t report it, but we did....
“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.”
Yeah, like they’re so altruistic what with their graphics that were solely directed at Trump. Eff em!
Fox news is reporting that CPAC refused Trump’s ‘demands’ for special treatment and that they declined his appearance.
Honestly, I don’t know how the man keeps forging ahead - never gives up, regardless.
“FoxNews should ban Donald from future debates.”
They can’t afford the losses they’d incur!
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One wonders why Romney wouldn’t expend the energy on trying to beat Hillary.
I haven't given up on that, but I'm surprised by what Cruz has condoned. Haven't rejected him yet, but I suspect he thinks he can deliver to both the GOP and the voters, and I don't think he can. Not just because right now he's not powerful enough, but because ... well ... you just can't deliver to both.
So Cruz is fading for me, and that's not a judgment. I'm kind of sad about it ... Cruz's supporters should take note of that. Most of us who support Trump aren't rabidly for Trump, nor rabidly against Cruz. For us, though, who are reasonable, Cruz has taken a serious hit.
He would do well at some point, maybe after the nomination, to acknowledge that much of what his campaign has done is out of line with his own professed ... purity. If he doesn't, then those things will wind up attributed to him personally rather than just bad management.
Assuming he truly is a good man, I think what he needed to do this time around is be patient ... realize it's not his time, and not smear himself in an attempt to force it to be his time. Of course, maybe he is not a good man.
But I suspect men at this stages of their careers are neither totally good yet nor totally bad. There are pretty strong forces pulling you in different directions, and it's not always clear which are good or evil. Ted's young. Let the old man take the reigns, learn from him, and if you really are good, your time will come.
Or is he a teenager?
Yep.
It was worse. Seriously. She had an entire dossier on the subject and had studied it. This was obviously the spot where she was supposed to take Trump out.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!
How terrible!!!!
Now, that kelly girl can go, “NA, NA, NA!!!”
I just don’t know how Trump can get over the embarrassment and the pain...THE PAIN!!!!!
Marco the cuban debutant wireless bubble proof Robot is not rule violation???
Fine cancel remaining primary debates
-PJ
Great reference.
Dylan Byers is the Senior Reporter for Media and Politics at CNN.[1] Previously, he was a media reporter for Politico. Byers attended Bard College, graduating in 2008.
I’d say he’s around 30.
Who cares? Fox network rules? Why should anyone care what Fox Network rules are? First, you see them breaking every rule on stage. The bells, that they ignore. The questions they don’t answer. The interrupting each other. Even the moderators follow up past their allotted follow up and argue with the participants. So, rules are like pro basketball. Traveling is not allowed unless your a star. Fouls are called against backup centers. This is entertainment, not a contest. Fox is in it for the ratings and to promote their on-air staff.
(I only use the pro-basketball analogy because Trump is there. Fox and the GOPe want it to be pro-wrestling. They have a scripted winner. But with Trump, we have the possibility of another outcome.)
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