Trump Attacks Bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates

[babylonsister]

Might be easier to list what he doesn't attack...Putin, for starters, followed closely by Saudi Arabia.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-attacks-bipartisan-commission-on-presidential-debates?ref=home

Trump Attacks Bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates
‘NASTY POLITICS’
Emma Tucker
Published Dec. 16, 2019 10:49AM ET

President Trump tweeted on Monday morning that he is looking forward to debating the “lucky person” who “stumbles across the finish line in the little watched Do Nothing Democrat Debates,” and then claimed that as president, “the debates are up to me.” He went on to attack the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), which is a nonprofit corporation jointly sponsored by both parties, calling it “very biased” with “nasty politics” and “stacked with Trump Haters & Never Trumpers.” The commission was established in 1987 to ensure “for the benefit of the American electorate, that general election debates...Are a permanent part of the electoral process” for the offices of the president and vice president, according to its website. Trump also wrote that the CPD was “forced to publicly apologize for modulating my microphone in the first debate against Crooked Hilary” in 2016, which the commission actually described as an unspecified technical malfunction. The president added that the CPD is “NOT authorized to speak for me,” or Republicans.

[crickets]

1. It's like listening to an eight-year-old bully. nt

[Initech]

2. Trump is just a garbage person.

He can't say anything that isn't mean and nasty. His supporters can't say anything that is mean and nasty. The easiest way to prevent another Trump is to stop giving garbage people a platform. But that's easier said than done.

[dalton99a]

3. A traitor does what a traitor does.

Attack and destroy anything he can for his Russian master

[former9thward]

4. Why is the "Bipartian Commission" being defended?

It was the independent League of Women Voters who used to organize the Presidential debates. The two parties conspired together to get rid of them and take over the debates. They did not like independents asking questions. Since then the debates are like watching paint dry. No real substantive questions. Whatever Trump's motivations no progressives should defend the current debate system.

[crickets]

5. I had forgotten that - thanks for pointing it out. nt

[EndlessWire]

6. What does this mean?

"and then claimed that as president, “the debates are up to me.” ???

Sounds like a guy dreaming that he is a dictator.