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Why Trump Is Moaning About the Debates - So he has an excuse if he loses
Slate ^ | August 10, 2016 | Jim Newell

Posted on 08/10/2016 4:53:14 PM PDT by Zakeet

One of the 10 or 15,000 Donald Trump subdramas heading into the fall is the question of whether the Republican presidential nominee will participate in all three scheduled debates. It's usually taken for granted that major-party candidates will agree to the Commission on Presidential Debates' schedule, but there’s no law requiring it, and Trump has never seen a political norm he hasn't considered razing and building something gaudy over. And over the past couple of weeks, he’s laid the groundwork for not participating in the debates by suggesting that they are, in some nebulous way, a trap he can't agree to until he's carefully combed through the conditions.

Don’t be fooled. He's going to do them. Well, at least he'll do one of them, and see how much he likes it. What he first needs is some face-saving adjustment to the schedule, the debate rules, the debate hall, or whatever. It doesn't matter what it is, and it doesn't even have to be an alteration that's tactically advantageous. The whole point of his debate moaning is just to act as another dominance play to demonstrate his ability to wield leverage in negotiating a deal.

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If he can’t negotiate one of his masterful deals, he has a ready-made excuse for a poor performance when he participates anyway: It was rigged all along, just like the whole election is.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; corruption; debates; democratplant; fifthcolumn; mediabias; trojanhorse; trump
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Which is exactly why Slate and others are pimply this meme now


41 posted on 08/10/2016 5:19:35 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Zakeet

debates...yes, they will have breaks this time for Hitlery to use the bathroom.


42 posted on 08/10/2016 5:19:54 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Have Faith...If you have none, pray and ask Him for more.)
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To: digger48
It’s not Trump who is making plans to avoid any debates.

LOL, That's for sure. This article is laughably absurd and a grossly obvious reversal of Hillary's fears.


43 posted on 08/10/2016 5:21:09 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Zakeet

Let’s see....the members of the Commission on Presidential Debates

Co-Chairmen
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.........Republican - RINO
Michael D. McCurry..............DemocRAT - Former Clinton Press Sec.

Hornorary Co-Chair
Paul G. Kirk, Jr................DemocRAT

Board Members
Howard G. Buffett...............Son of Buffett
John C. Danforth................Republican -RINO
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.........Republican - RINO
Charlie Gibson..................DemocRAT
John Griffen....................Presumed DemocRAT
Jane Harmon.....................DemocRAT
Antonia Hernandez...............DemocRAT
Reverend John I. Jenkins........Notre Dame U - Presumed Rat
Jim Leher.......................DemocRAT
Newton N. Minow.................DemocRAT
Richard D. Parsons..............Republican - RINO
Dorothy S. Ridings..............DemocRAT
Olympia Snowe...................Republican - Proven RINO
Shirley M. Tilghman.............Presumed DemocRAT

What could possibly go wrong?


44 posted on 08/10/2016 5:22:30 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: kiryandil

45 posted on 08/10/2016 5:23:06 PM PDT by Bobalu (Democrats use guns to shoot the innocent. Republicans use them for self-defense.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
She doesn't need bathroom breaks - she has her diaper.


46 posted on 08/10/2016 5:23:49 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Zakeet
Hopefully Trump and a moderator will talk to her at the same time during the debate, because this is what happens:


47 posted on 08/10/2016 5:24:46 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: rlmorel

And it’s got to be particularly galling to Trump, who takes such pride in deal-making, that the Repubs make such a bad deal on the ground rules for the debates.

He’s trying to negotiate a better deal, but of course the liberals call it petulance.


48 posted on 08/10/2016 5:25:42 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: irishjuggler

It wouldn’t surprise me if he was negotiating such things as

“no oxygen tanks on stage”

“no bathroom breaks”

“no walkers”


49 posted on 08/10/2016 5:30:19 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Zakeet

Trump will clean Hillary’s clock.

Of course this IS Slate. So, consider the source.


50 posted on 08/10/2016 5:30:42 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Another pajama boy. Color me shocked.

Friggin parasite.


51 posted on 08/10/2016 5:32:14 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Trump said he is glad to do three debates but he wants a moderator that will be fair. At last we have a GOP nominee that doesn’t sheepishly take whatever DNC hacks they throw at him.


52 posted on 08/10/2016 5:35:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Zakeet

Heh. Good pic.


53 posted on 08/10/2016 5:36:53 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: HarleyLady27

“Trump ISN’T the one complaining!!!”

The only complaint that I’ve heard is that the debates have been scheduled to miminize the audience size/


54 posted on 08/10/2016 5:37:30 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Zakeet

When is someone going to out the Debate Commission for being full of lefties?


55 posted on 08/10/2016 5:38:23 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: cymbeline

And Trump was asking why they were on NFL Football nights, he is thinking about the people that want to see the football and debates, nothing wrong with that...that’s why I won’t watch something if it interrupts my football...


56 posted on 08/10/2016 5:47:30 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Zakeet

Somebody needs to tell Little Jimmy the Slate Boy that Trump is pissing and moaning about the debates because he knows that if Clintoon croaks up on the stage, the turds in the liberal “media” are going to blame it on him. Take another toke Jimmy.


57 posted on 08/10/2016 5:50:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: HarleyLady27

“And Trump was asking why they were on NFL Football nights”

Yes. I continue to believe the Hillary people want to find a way to keep her from having to debate.

I hope Trump doesn’t say something they can twist around to justify cancelling the debates.


58 posted on 08/10/2016 5:51:55 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Wearing his Hillary Senate Hearing edition eyeglasses. A true Snowflake. Go figure.


59 posted on 08/10/2016 5:58:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Zakeet

Trump may demand special lighting just for Hillary.

60 posted on 08/10/2016 6:01:30 PM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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