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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Trump is insane if he agrees to show up at another debate. He is as you mentioned going to be way ahead by the next debate. He needs to announce that there is nothing left to debate about. Which is true.
That wasn’t a debate, that was a circus. A clown show. A ridiculous display. It did not reflect well on any of them, except maybe for Kasich who tried to remain about the fray.
This is BS John.
There were people belonging to the corrupt PACs and other of the politicians campaign officials right in the audience, who were allowed to yell out comments/talking points for their candidates.
One only has to listen to the audio of this debate to know this was allowed to go on through the entire debate.
Trump has been kidney-punching since the first debate, onstage and off. So now he is the victim?
... no need for us to wonder any longer. I know for many this was clear earlier. It wasn't until recently that I went from believing they were just weak, to believing it's been a 100% power sharing act all along.
Sociopaths ... I'm talking here about the continuum, not the murder movie kind. And I am not talking about the sociopaths themselves, I'm talking about the more normal moral people around them.
Those moral people are always extremely slow to see that they are being tricked, because they don't really possess the desire or capacity to trick people, so they attribute the sociopathic behavior to traits they know about themselves ... "well maybe he's weak" ... "maybe he's doing the best he can" ... "maybe he misunderstands or is just tone deaf".
Nope. This is was conscious by the GOP. This has been for at least 20 years a strategy of 'we have our priorities, and we will hide that from the people by pretending to agree with them'.
In short, an outright strategy and lie, rather than a failure.
Romney doesn't go after Hillary because he agrees with her. Romney goes after Trump as a proxy to scold Americans, with whom he entirely and sincerely disagrees and holds in disdain.
The lie he tells himself is that since he's a devout Mormon, he must logically be good and right and justified, a priori any self reflection or examination.
I've seen this phenomenon living and working in Boston/Cambridge for many years - the people there merely believe whatever thought occurs to them, unscrutinized ... it's as if because they live near Harvard and MIT and BU and BC and Tufts ... that there is no longer any need to think or reflect. A thought's mere appearance is its own proof. And you throw them all into a group and you have a collective hypnosis, and you mix that with a bunch of politicians who are genetically designed to be on the sociopath spectrum, lie to themselves and others just like they breathe ... and there you have the GOP, may they go to Hell.
And they let Cruz SWALLOW a booger, don't forget that rule breaker.
Boo Hoo. Fox violated every rules of debate ethics and Trump can counter punch all he wants. If you sucker punch someone there is always the chance you will get some payback.
I’ve posted this nowhere until now. I was sickened by mitt, marco and ted’s throwing the election to Hillary. They created negative ad after another for Hillary to run against Trump.
You wonder why Romney wouldn’t try to beat Hillary?
I don’t
Trump IS a pro-wrestler. Which is what bothers me. What happens when he meets people who do Not pull their punches?
Nope, not the victim at all, he’s done a pretty good job of handling it. I’m more mocking the fact that no one seems to be held to any standards where they’re expected to actually answer any questions as opposed to pivoting every single chance to speak into an attack on Trump. It doesn’t bother me any, it just makes them all look ridiculous and the coordinated GOPe effort to slow him down that much more transparent.
Exactly! *Sheesh* You'd think this was a chess tournament or something. The Fox debate was pretty much a low level barroom brawl.
You watched the "debate". What are you whining about?
I guess there ARE some who get off on watching a gang beatdown.
I'm not one of those people. Are you?
As if the opposition wouldn’t figure all that on their own? C’mon.
It would be unfair to make Trump debate by himself without the help of his campaign manager.
Everyone knows he needs help with the hard questions.
One wonders why Romney wouldn’t expend the energy on trying to beat Hillary.
You and I, and many others, know why... :)
It’s pretty clear Trump can’t think on his feet and doesn’t even know what his positions are on many issues. He depends heavily on his handlers to tell him what to say, and even then Trump gets it wrong and has to depend on his aids to issue retractions and “clarifications”. This is not a one-of event. It’s happened over and over and seems to be picking up in frequency.
It’s also the reason Donald likes to do so many phone interviews. His aides and handlers are with him while he’s on the phone to tell him what to say.
Valerie Jarrett, meet Corey Lewandowski, the next President of the United Sates.>>>>> i don’t know that but he can speak for an hour extemporaneously and explain detailed issues like college tuition increases, tax policy and issues with obamacare. and i’ve never seen him in interviews consulting anyone. 5 people attacking one person would be hard for anyone to actually defend against.
He is nothing without his puppet master telling him what his positions are that day.
They had rules for that debate?
Could have fooled me
And how about CNN working with Cruz/Rubio in the 3-25-16 debate in Houston with Wolf Blitzer?
In that debate Trump was repeatedly the person that was the recipient of each question the moderators asked thus allowing Cruz/Rubio to ambush whatever Trump's response was. This even prompted Trump to ask at one point during the debate, "Am I the only guy who is going to be asked questions during this debate?"
This was also the debate within which an exasperated Dr. Ben Carson blurted out, "I wish someone would insult me so I would at least get a chance to speak."
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