Posted on 04/18/2024 9:08:04 AM PDT by lowbridge
A consortium of television networks yesterday released a joint statement inviting President Joe Biden and his presumptive opponent, Donald Trump, to debate on their platforms: “There is simply no substitute for the candidates debating with each other, and before the American people, their visions for the future of our nation.”
President Biden’s spokesperson should answer like this: “The Constitution is not debatable. The president does not participate in forums with a person under criminal indictment for his attempt to overthrow the Constitution.”
In their letter of invitation, the networks refer to presidential debates as a “competition of ideas.” But one of the two men they’re inviting turned the last election into a competition of violence: Trump tried to seize the presidency by force in 2021.
If Trump had not occupied the presidency at the time of his attempted coup d’état, he would very likely be already serving a lengthy prison term for his alleged crimes against the 2020 election. Earlier this month, a principal figure in the January 6 attack was sentenced to seven years in prison, the latest of many such serious convictions and sentences. Fortunately for Trump, the U.S. justice system is highly cautious, deferential, and slow when dealing with persons of wealth and importance. Although the followers have been punished, the indicted leader of the plot is unlikely to face trial before Election Day 2024. Until tried and convicted, Trump must be regarded as innocent in the eyes of the law.
But the political system has eyes of its own. No doubt exists about what Trump did, or why, or what his actions meant. Trump lost an election, then incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol. He hoped that the insurrectionists would terrorize, kidnap, or even kill his own vice president in order to stop
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Truth. So this little traitor is fine with a corrupt, lying c-student with dementia having the most important job in the world.
Some folks take him seriously. That’s scary.
That was Pelosi’s doing start to finish.
Yeah, if not for Jan 6, Biden would be chomping at the bit for a one-on-one.
Oh, good grief. They are the people who turn on the television to get their news each morning and evening.
Actually, I hope Biden follows the Atlantic’s advice, because, ironically, a debate would be a great boost for Biden. By this time most people know that Biden is a senile, rambling, incompetent, wreck. That is now the general impression after four years of comical examples. However, through some powerful pharmacological magic he can be made to seem coherent and even vigorous for at least the few hours of the debate. This brief medical cabaret would trick people into thinking that his condition is much better than it actually is and that he is someone who he is not.
It’s the same outlet that published the lie that Trump called the US soldiers buried in a French cemetery “losers and suckers”
Bull scat. Every Democrat Party member knows that Joe is in profound cognitive decline and a debate would show how serious it has become in the past four years.
I don’t even call it TDS anymore, it’s now Democrat Derangement Syndrome, and I have lost several friends to this madness without a cure.
No problem, Joenothing. Stay in the basement, puleeze.
Trump can debate RFK, Jr, who is a candidate, and who is itching to get out there to debate.
Everybody will (probably rightly) suspect Biden can’t make it through a debate without either drooling or loading his Depends.
FRUM IS PURE EVIL !!! GO BZCK TO GODLESS CANADA!
Expect more of these. The talking points have been issued. Usually The Atlantic floats the balloon first. Next. Cnnmsnbcbsnprnyt so there will be an astroturf “movement” to cancel debates. I wouldn’t be surprised if a judge “gags” Trump from attending debates.
It is not that he wont, he is not able to
This is worse 4 joe
The Craplantic!
Delusional rantings of a madman.
ANOTHER LEFT WING LIAR.
BIDEN IS INCAPABLE OF DEBATING PRESIDENT TRUMP.
The Atlantic, ANOTHER LEFT WING RAG.
One reason, Biden has dementia and is easily confused.
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