Testy? If that had been me I would have been a tad more than testy! No one else was served personal attacks before a question was asked of him. From the opening question about 3rd party which was a set up fake poll for ALL the candidates when in reality it was meant as a slam for Trump---right out of the box.
No, he was not at his finest but by his own admission he said he was not a debater and silly him I truly believe he went into that thinking it was going to be a debate where he would treated like everyone else.
This type of thing happened when Wallace went after Newt in 2012 debates...the candidates were getting upset because the questions from Cnn weren’t about the issues they wanted to speak about...Newt nailed them hard and got a standing ovation for doing so...Wallace was booed.... Trump could have done likewise....
Here’s his slap to Wallace.....
One advantage to getting personal attacks was that he got 30 seconds to answer every time it happened. Thus he got the most minutes of all the debaters.
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