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President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post. “It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source. “Trump started with Jeff Zucker and said I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed…. “The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down,” the source added. A second source confirmed the encounter. “The meeting took place...

In a speech Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump called the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton “rigged,” and seemed to place much of the blame on the moderator, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt. “Then I had to put up with the anchor, and fight the anchor all the time on everything I said,” Trump said. “What a rigged deal.” The comments represent a shift from the morning after the debate, when Trump told Fox and Friends “I thought Lester was really good for the half … I thought he was fine. Nothing outstanding. He gave me very unfair questions at...

Earlier during our initial review of the debate we identified something that looked entirely suspicious because it is only evidenced for one specific candidate, and one specific lectern. We initially drew attention to it as “The Cleaner”: Well, this intrigue just got a whole lot more interesting. See “The Cleaner” at work here immediately following the debate: https://twitter.com/gigi2my4/status/781122139696930816 The Cleaner has been identified as George Lewis, a former member of NBC staff: 🐸PepeTrump @fige1000 Remember the guy that took the notepad from Hillary's podium at the debate? George Lewis, NBC Nightly News Staff @Cernovich@mitchellvii https://twitter.com/fige1000/status/781288137536446465/photo/1 Wiki: George Lewis (born 1943)...

Earlier during our initial review of the debate we identified something that looked entirely suspicious because it is only evidenced for one specific candidate, and one specific lectern. We initially drew attention to it as “The Cleaner”. Well, this intrigue just got a whole lot more interesting. See “The Cleaner” at work here immediately following the debate. The Cleaner has been identified as George Lewis, a former member of NBC staff. Here’s where it gets even more interesting. And again, unfortunately no-one is putting these disparate segments together into one cohesive story. First this video where something electronic is clearly...

Unfortunately, this post is going to be severely fragmented. Our apologies in advance. However, if anyone can clean up these videos please notify us ASAP in the comments. You’ll see what I mean. Earlier during our initial review of the debate we identified something that looked entirely suspicious because it is only evidenced for one specific candidate, and one specific lectern. We initially drew attention to it as “The Cleaner”:

Very interesting! Watch as the 'Debate Cleaner' takes a folder from Hillary's podium and gives it to Lester Holt, with a nod.

This video shows Hillary Clinton using hand signals to communicate with Lester Holt at the first Presidential debate.

Video analysis of Presidential Debate #1 raises uncomfortable questions about the moderator role, much as questions have been raised about Hillary's email server. Hillary might have been using hand signals to indicate debate junctures where Hillary saw chances to use pre-memorized debate zingers. Other signals seem to prompt Holt to abruptly break in and contest certain claims advanced by Trump. The video will put Freepers in a mindset optimized to be on-guard against similar tactics in Debates 2 and 3.

As was expected, Monday night’s presidential debate moderator, Lester Holt couldn’t exactly hide his bias towards Hillary Clinton…. The Daily Caller points out, “Holt interrupted Trump a whopping 41 times, either to “fact-check” the Republican nominee, or to ask a follow-up question. Clinton was only interrupted seven times during the course of the 90-minute debate.” The so-called NBC journalist interrupted Trump 10 times during an exchange about the GOP nominee’s position on the Iraq war, and demanded at least 5 times why Trump thought he had better judgment than Clinton. A Breitbart analysis of the debate transcript notes that Lester...

On the same day, September 27, 2016, nine days before the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump, a Somali American, Dahir Adan, stabbed nine people in a Minneapolis mall and an Afghan American, Ahmad Rahami detonated a pressure-cooker bomb in the heart of Manhattan, injuring 31. During his knife attack, Adan demanded to know if his victims were Muslim before stabbing them but made the fatal mistake of threatening an armed off-duty cop, Jason Falconer, who shot him dead. Rahami who came to the U.S. with his family as part of an Afghan asylum program, was arrested in 2014...

For Lester Holt, the economy has been performing well, but there is a problem in the distribution of income. This is the liberal position. The conservative position is that the economy has been underperforming, growing at a slow rate, with many in the middle class losing purchasing power, and many losing faith in their ability to improve their lives.

At least we know Trump wasn’t lying when he said he didn't practice for the debate. Based on the behavior of trained, professional journalists, I gather I'm not supposed to say what I really thought of the debate, but to cheer like a pom-pom girl for my candidate. But the truth is, I -- along with my Trump-supporting friends -- thought it was a draw: Trump won the first half, and Hillary won the second half. Since most people stopped paying attention after the first 30 minutes, that's a win for Trump.

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Hillary Clinton is not above cheating, lying or stealing to get what she wants. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that she is being accused of cheating during Monday’s 1st Presidential debate. Clinton was accused of cheating by sending hand signals to the moderator Lester Holt. During the debate when Clinton wanted to signal Holt when she wanted the floor, she rubbed her face in a manner similar to a baseball manager. According to True Pundit she has not done this in any other debates during her career supporting the accusation that these were signals. Watch this incredible video before...

Lester Holt was wrong on the subject of "stop and frisk" during Monday's presidential debate. Is that criticism coming from supporters of Donald Trump? Yes but, more importantly, it is also coming from liberal sources as well including Ed Kilgore of the not exactly Trump-friendly New York Magazine.  You can see Holt make his claim about "stop and frisk" being ruled unconstitutional in the video below followed by Kilgore's critique:

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: If you establishment types really, really want to understand how Trump supporters look at this -- if you really do -- let me remind you of something. By the way, I'm proud of how often I'm seeing this pop up in columns and opinion pieces. It is something I have been reminding people over the past month. You guys in the Drive-Bys in analyzing Hillary's debate, you're judging rhetoric. You're judging the spoken word. That's how you define intelligence (muttering), "It's intellectualspeak. You communicate (muttering) so you're really, really smart, really... Obama does intellectualspeak. It's a specific...

During the debate when Clinton wanted to signal Holt whent she wanted the floor, she rubbed her face in a manner similar to a baseball manager. According to True Pundit she has not done this in any other debates during her career supporting the accusation that these were signals. . . Poker pro Mike Matusow agreed– Hillary was signalling Lester Holt.

OK, I know that the source is not held in high esteem by many (including myself) but I don't think that the clip from the raw pool feed of the pre-debate preparations lies. It shows the 'Moderator', Lester Holt, testing his earpiece, and it not working, leading to the receiver / battery pack being replaced by studio techs. THIS IS IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE WELL PUBLICIZED DEBATE RULES released last week. Lester Holt may have surpassed Candy Crowley for debate moderator malfeasance.

>NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, at Monday night’s debate, repeatedly cross-examined and fact-checked GOP nominee Donald Trump. However, for Hillary Clinton there was not one single challenge to anything she said. And there wasn’t a hard-hitting question to the Democratic nominee on any of her controversies whether it be Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation or the e-mails. If Holt had correctly done his job as moderator he could’ve asked a tough question of Trump and then pivoted to ask an equally challenging question to Clinton. The debate might have gone completely different if he had.  Listed below are questions actually...

One of Donald Trump's closest advisers has said he would pull out of the next debate if he were running for president. "If I were Donald Trump I wouldn't participate in another debate unless I was promised that a journalist would act like a journalist and not an incorrect, ignorant fact checker," Rudy Giuliani said after Monday's debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton. While Giuliani lashed out at NBC News' Lester Holt, who moderated the event, Trump said he "felt [Holt] was fine." Giuliani added: "I did not say what I'm advising, I'm saying what I would do. Whatever advice...