Trump is too nice of a guy. He’s way too nice of a guy to debate
someone as nasty as Hillary. He needs to change. He needs to get tougher or
she’s going to walk all over him.
He didn’t lose any support because of his debate performance,
but he could have done better.
The online polls all showed that he won the debate. But he
didn’t really win.
He had to debate two people. Moderator Lester Holt was clearly
on Hillary’s side. I noticed it while I was watching, before any published
articles mentioned it.
It was obvious that Holt was out to get Trump. His intention was
to make Trump look bad and Hillary look good.
I don’t know if he did it on his own or if NBC told him to do
it. I hope NBC didn’t instruct him to favor Hillary or his 6:30 nightly NBC gig
will be over. I hope that didn’t happen, but it could have. His bias was so
flagrant.
Trump started good. He said he wants to stop our companies from
leaving the U.S. and firing all of the American workers. That’s a message that
resonates with most Americans.
Trump wanted to talk about the issues. Hillary wanted to bash
Trump. She didn’t bark like a dog this time, but she acted like an attack dog.
Her metaphorical teeth were bared and she was willing and ready to tear Mr.
Trump apart.
She went on and on, insinuating horrible things about Trump. She
came up with a phrase she thought was clever: “Trumped up trickle down”. She
insinuated that Trump would have been nothing without his father’s money. She
said she was glad her father never had to deal with Trump. That was one of many
personal unfair insults she hurled at Trump.
She said that Trump believes climate change is a hoax
perpetuated by the Chinese. Trump tried to continue debating the issues. He
mentioned that Ohio and Michigan are losing their jobs.
Hillary defended the current trade deals. She said that she
would enforce the trade deals. As she said that, I wondered why Obama wasn’t
enforcing the rules.
Hillary took a very short reprieve from bashing Trump and
promoted her new book and her home page.
When Trump tried to counter punch Hillary, she berated him,
saying “Join the debate and say more crazy things.”
Hillary was very prepared to attack Trump. He was not prepared
for anything as vicious and nasty as Hillary.
Hillary continued the vicious insults. She said Trump was
creating a Trump loophole that would benefit him and be a tax benefit for his
family.
Lester Holt decided to go on the attack. He asked Trump about
his tax returns. When Trump said he would release his returns when Hillary
released her 33,000 emails, the crowd erupted in cheers. Holt admonished the
crowd for cheering Trump.
Holt set the stage for more Hillary attacks. She insinuated that
Trump was not as rich as he says he is, didn’t donate much money to charity and
didn’t pay any income taxes. She said that the only returns ever released show
that he didn’t pay any taxes. This is false. Lester Holt didn’t correct
Hillary, but throughout the debate, if Trump ever said anything that was
borderline true, Holt was all over him, like Hillary’s back-up dog.
Hillary was hammering Trump’s persona just like she smashed her cell
phones with a hammer to destroy her emails.
Trump mentioned the country’s 20 trillion dollar debt. He
correctly compared the condition of our infrastructure to a third world
country.
Hillary continued her unrelenting attacks. She once said that
she would “crucify” Gennifer Flowers, one of her husband’s many paramours. She
was now hell bent on “crucifying” Mr. Trump.
She again falsely accused him of not paying taxes. She then
accused him of not paying people who worked for him. She falsely accused him of
having six bankruptcies. Holt didn’t fact check her on anything.
The next topic was race relations. Trump was making some
excellent points. He was getting the better of Hillary in this exchange.
Hillary raised some eyebrows when she said that everyone has an implicit bias,
not just the police. She didn’t repeat her earlier accusation that half of
Trump supporters are deplorable.
Lester Holt could feel the momentum going for Trump and decided
to squash it. He brought up the birther issue and relentlessly questioned and
drilled Mr. Trump on the topic. Holt and Hillary joined forces to bash Trump so
badly he couldn’t recover. It was at this moment when I felt that Trump was
beginning to lose the debate.
When the topic turned to the fight against ISIS, Trump was doing
well. That’s when Holt jumped in again to help Hillary. He insisted that Trump
had supported the war in Iraq. When Trump said he was against the war, Holt tersely said “The record shows otherwise”. Holt didn’t elaborate on what “record” he
was referring to.
Hillary went on a long tirade about Trump and Iran. She continued
bashing Trump and said “A man who could be provoked by a tweet should not have
his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.”
Trump tried to respond to Hillary’s outrageous statement. Holt
said “It’s time to move on.” He didn’t want Trump to respond. This really
showed his flagrant bias.
A short time later, after more unrelenting long attacks by
Hillary, Trump again tried to respond. Holt told Trump: “very quickly.” As soon
as Trump began to respond, Holt interrupted him repeatedly.
I have never seen a debate moderator act so one sided and behave
in such a biased manner. Holt never asked Hillary any questions about her
emails or private server or favors given to donors who gave to the Clinton
foundation. He never asked her about the lies she told during the email
investigation. If questions about the birther issue were fair game, why wasn’t
Benghazi?
Holt continued to attack Mr. Trump. He asked “What did you mean
when you said that Hillary doesn’t have a presidential look?”
At the end of the debate, Hillary intended to finish off Mr.
Trump. She pulled out her really big hammer. As you know, Trump became the
owner of the Miss Universe pageants back in the 1990s in partnership with CBS.
Hillary said “This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs. He loves
beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them.” She insinuated that
he was hanging around the contests for some perverted reason. This is an
outrageous and offensive insinuation. Then Hillary accused Trump of calling
Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping”. There are no witnesses to
these allegations.
When Trump tried to respond, Holt said “ten seconds”. He was
only giving Mr. Trump ten seconds to respond to outrageous allegations.
Trump said “I was going to say something extremely rough to
Hillary, to her family and I said I can’t do it. It’s inappropriate, it’s not
nice. Hillary's ads are not true, not a nice thing she's done."
Holt interrupted him again, saying “It’s time to move on.”
Holt asked a final question and gave Hillary plenty of time to
respond with no interruptions. When it was Trump’s turn to answer, Holt said
“very quickly”.
I think if Holt really had his way, the debate would have been a
ninety minute Hillary commercial and Trump wouldn’t have been allowed to say
anything.
Hillary had the same nasty tone during the debate that she has
had in her anti-Trump commercials.
Trump never did say what he should have said. He did say it
several days after the debate, though. He said “Hillary Clinton was married to
the single greatest abuser of women in the history of politics.”
I’ve done the research. This is a true statement. I would invite
“Lester (I’m with her) Holt” to fact check it. Hillary was Bill’s enabler. She
attacked the women her husband had sex with. She said she would “crucify”
Gennifer Flowers. That’s a fact. It’s a fact that she called Monica Lewinsky a
“narcissistic looney toon”.
I think Trump has
finally had enough. I think he’s taken the gloves off. It reminds me of the
song: “No more Mister nice guy.” We’ll see what happens.