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'He'll ask me tough questions and it'll be unfair': Trump accuses presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace of being 'controlled by the radical left'
Daily Mail ^ | 9/24/2020 | Katlyn Caralle

Posted on 09/24/2020 2:12:23 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

President Donald Trump took swings at Chris Wallace days before the Fox News host is to moderate the first presidential debate – accusing Wallace of being 'controlled' by the left.

The president has long complained that he gets unfair treatment in debates, and his team spent months seeking to negotiate better terms as he prepares to face Democrat Joe Biden stage.

But with a prime-time clash set on dicey topics as the coronavirus, race, and social unrest, Trump opted to go after the moderator with the ability to sift questions and pursue follow-ups.

He'll ask me tough questions and it'll be unfair, I have no doubt about it,' Trump predicted. 'But he'll be controlled by the radical left. They control him,' he said in an interview with Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade on Kilmeade's radio show Thursday.

Trump went on to tout the ratings that Trump brought Wallace in their July interview.

'Chris likes me because his world is all about ratings,' Trump said.

'I would be willing to bet that he won't ask Biden tough questions,' he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: marcusmaximus
And Trump will "ace" the questions. Meanwhile, you never know how Biden will respond. 🙄
21 posted on 09/24/2020 2:27:19 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: marcusmaximus

Nothing can stop the President from asking direct questions to the Sundowner.


22 posted on 09/24/2020 2:28:32 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: SamAdams76

“Would any Democrat ever agree to a debate moderated by Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin or Sean Hannity?”

Each would be very objective in a debate but Democrats would not let them or Tucker Carlson moderate.


23 posted on 09/24/2020 2:29:29 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Starboard; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ..

It may be deliberately done. Show the public just how pathetic Plugs is, having to be propped up and delicately handled by Wallace, while he attacks the President (i.e. “Vice-President Biden, what’s your favorite color ?” “MISTER Trump, why are you always lying and how can you live with yourself that you murdered a quarter of a million people with Covid virus ?” “Vice-President Biden, how do you stay so young and healthy looking. So handsome ?” “Mister Trump, as the biggest racist, sexist, and reprobate to ever sit in the White House, does it not bother you that you will be burning in hell for all eternity ?” “Vice-President Biden, what’s your favorite meal ?”)

If Plugs got 10% of the negative treatment Trump gets, he’d be hiding in a ball, crying like a baby.


24 posted on 09/24/2020 2:29:49 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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To: CedarDave

Why aren’t there conservatives there?


25 posted on 09/24/2020 2:30:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: lgjhn23

Why is there always a leftest as a moderator?

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Not many options since they’re nearly all leftists. Having said that, Wallace is one of the worst. Watch the difference in his tone and persistence between the two.

The Dems never have to face a conservative moderator. They know they would be asked tough questions so they simply refuse to allow it. Republicans, on the other hand, can never seem to even get someone who is not hard left.


26 posted on 09/24/2020 2:30:14 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard
I think it's a matter of leverage. All the GOP has to negotiate is whether to do 1,2, or 3 debates. I think they should drop it down to 2, or even 1. But, it's such a circus, that it usually doesn't change many minds. The only thing I can even remember from all three of the 2016 debates is the look on Bill Clinton's face!


27 posted on 09/24/2020 2:32:37 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: gr8eman

When Joe melts down after a couple of Trump broadsides

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He’s not going to melt down. He’ll use that same Chesire cat like grin and that deranged laugh like he did during his last VP debate against Ryan.


28 posted on 09/24/2020 2:33:56 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: sheehan
Mike Tyson saying ‘everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face’

Iron Mike, ya just lotta love that guy. One of if not the greatest heavy weight fighter ever.

29 posted on 09/24/2020 2:34:33 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: marcusmaximus

Bret bear..... that guy.... he is the one who asked Trump if he’d accept the election... bear had said earlier that day... he/they had Trump and that debate would be the end. Here we are 4 years later and the same question??? mercy!

A thought... what if biden has been faking being spaced out... and comes out in the debate ready for fire...

and why hasn’t the biden family millionaires.. billionaires... hit the news today ... it’s ho hum?


30 posted on 09/24/2020 2:34:45 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: LeoWindhorse

It’s far easier than that.

Trump should go to the debate with a sheet of questions from Limbaugh, Levin and Carlson. Each time Wallace asks him a question, Trump can say, “no, I’m am going to take a question from Rush Limbaugh!” and the read Rush’s tough question.

Each time Wallace asks Biden a question, Trump can instead demand that Biden answer Levin’s question, and then read that question to Biden.


31 posted on 09/24/2020 2:35:26 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: marcusmaximus

As usual, Trump will make Wallace look like a putz.


32 posted on 09/24/2020 2:38:00 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: marcusmaximus

not tough questions... trick questions.. the kind that if answered looks bad... the moderator is a Trump hater... and that is all fair? he can make Trump look like bret did 4 years ago.... maybe bret got the idea from wallace... and I have not liked bret since that day... he thought he was smart and he was a sucker....


33 posted on 09/24/2020 2:38:02 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: marcusmaximus

Chris Wallace looks like an old poof!


34 posted on 09/24/2020 2:39:53 PM PDT by W. (What, me worry?)
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To: marcusmaximus
'But he'll be controlled by the radical left. They control him,' he said in an interview with Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade on Kilmeade's radio show Thursday.'

Does anyone know what Kilmeade's reaction was to Trump's accurate comments?

Since Kilmeade is a long time Never Trumper, did he have enough courage to speak his version of the truth as demanded by FOX hosts?

35 posted on 09/24/2020 2:39:57 PM PDT by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: lgjhn23
Why is there always a leftest as a moderator?

In the distant past (back in the days of 12 channel televisions), the debates were often moderated by the anchor of the network and the questions were from a panel of newspaper and magazine reports. Essentially, people who were liberal but not accustomed to grandstanding for the camera.

Today, they're all a bunch of prima donnas or peacocks strutting for the cameras.

-PJ

36 posted on 09/24/2020 2:41:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: marcusmaximus

“...accusing Wallace of being ‘controlled’ by the left.”

‘Controlled’ implies that he wouldn’t do it voluntarily or on his own. The fact is that Chris Wallace has always been a leftist. He’s not even a very good interviewer. He strives for confrontation and ‘gotcha questions’ instead of enlightening the viewers on the debate topics. It may be entertaining but it’s not very informative.


37 posted on 09/24/2020 2:42:12 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: newfreep

I don’t get that guy... what does he have against Trump? is has to be something picky... it’s been 4 years... he should have gotten over whatever it was/is.


38 posted on 09/24/2020 2:42:33 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Are you sure he wasn’t eyeballing some babe off to his left?

He’s got the “My head is facing forward but my eyes are wandering” looks.


39 posted on 09/24/2020 2:43:41 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: marcusmaximus; All
Chris Wallace should face the same fate as William Wallace, live on PPV! "Have any more stupid questions Chris?...as the crowd roared."
40 posted on 09/24/2020 2:44:10 PM PDT by Beagle8U ("I nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the next USSC justice.")
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