re: Watching Trump town hall recording. Moderator performance is disgraceful

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The guy is an iconoclast, going after the media and calling them on their garbage. Not trying to lay out a blueprint, but the best way to beat Trump is not to charge after him or do exactly what he accuses you of doing (Fake News). Yet the media has like quintupled down on this tactic.

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I often wonder what things would look like if the media somehow decided to just start playing Trump straight.

Yes, it's the dishonesty and double standards that bother people watching.

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Imagine if Biden had to answer questions like that

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That's what I don't understand. Why are they both interviewed by left wing media. Biden gets softballs (not a single question about his son's laptop) and Trump continues getting 'White Supremacy' and 'Q-Anon' questions. If Trump gets a left wing moderator, Biden should get one from the right.

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Got 3 SC Justices (probably) appointed. But that’s just timing. My taxes ARE a tad lower. Tip o’ the cap to Trump. But other than that. “Great”? I’m gonna need some context.

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In 2019, 2.1 million new jobs were created.
In 2019, 1.5 million jobs were added for women. This accounts for more than 50% of total jobs for the first time ever.

Under President Trump, 5.6 million people have come off food stamps.

As a result of the historic tax cuts, nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones were created in all 50 states, DC, and 5 territories. Opportunity Zones will spur $100 billion in private capital investment and impact nearly 35 million Americans.

The Administration has cut nearly 8 regulations for every new rule.

Regulatory costs have been slashed by nearly $50 billion and have saved taxpayers $220 billion once actions are fully implemented.

The deregulation efforts will save American households an estimated $3,100 per year.

President Trump is fulfilling his promise to build a border wall, with sizable portions already finished or under construction.
It’s expected that 450 miles will be finished by the end of 2020.

The United States has successfully decimated ISIS.

Under President Trump, the number one terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was taken out.

President Trump ordered the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force and an evil, ruthless, and deadly terrorist.

President Trump fulfilled his promise to name Jerusalem Israel’s capital city and moved the U.S. Embassy.

President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran Nuclear Agreement and instituted the toughest sanctions in history to drive the regime’s oil exports to zero.

President Trump has nominated, and the Senate has confirmed a grand total of 200 Article III judges.
2 Supreme Court Justices – Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh.
53 Circuit Court judges.
143 District Court judges.
2 Court of International Trade Judges

President Trump has made Historically Black Colleges and Universities a priority, including appropriating more money to HBCUs in one year than any other president and establishing a Presidential Board of Advisors on HBCUs.
President Trump signed the FUTURE Act into law. The law permanently funds HBCUs and simplifies the FAFSA application

President Trump signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.

The President signed the V.A. Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program (VCP).

The President signed the V.A. MISSION Act revolutionizing the VA system, increasing choice, and providing quality care for our nation’s veterans.

The administration expanded telehealth access for veterans.

The Administration has secured a record $8.6 billion in funding for mental health services with the goal of ending the tragedy of veteran suicide.

During the President’s first year in office, the number of American women in poverty fell by nearly 600,000.

Thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the child tax credit was doubled to $2,000 per child.

Black Americans have experienced record low unemployment under President Trump.

Under President Trump, 350,000 fewer black Americans are living in poverty.

The FIRST STEP ACT has been widely hailed as the most meaningful criminal justice reform in a generation.

As a result of the First Step Act, more than 3,000 Americans have been released from prison and 90% of those who have had their sentences reduced are black Americans.

President Trump was awarded the 2019 Bipartisan Justice award by the nonprofit 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center. The President received this award for his “ability to work across the aisle to achieve meaningful progress in reforming our criminal justice system.”

There is plenty more, but I think you get the point.

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Why should they be treated equally? Biden is not the incumbent president. Trump is and should take the questions as they come. In fairness, he did do pretty well.
It's his supporters who've been used to softballs they give him on fox and friends and expect everyone to do the same.

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So that's a no. I'll give you that they can't be treated totally equally considering Trump is President and Biden never will be, but to act like it's not a huge advantage that Biden is allowed to speak for 7 minutes uninterrupted by his moderator while Trump can't even go 30 seconds without being interrupted by his is just absurd

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Because they are interviewing for the same job.

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Except, one already has a job and the people who are in charge (voters) must decide whether he's done a good job so far. That can only be done by asking the tough questions.

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Except, one already has a job and the people who are in charge (voters) must decide whether he's done a good job so far. That can only be done by asking the tough questions.

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Sure, let's just give the job to the other guy without asking any tough questions.

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Because Biden didn't need to be constantly brought back to the question by Stephanopoulos. Meanwhile, Trump did.

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Oh FFS.

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likewise trump should shut his mouth when others are talking. trumps always fallback answer is antifa and the radical left.

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First, he is the President of the United States. He was the focus of the town hall. Hence a modicum of respect is due him. Second, Antifa is an actual issue in this country. Until you can show me riots that have occurred for five plus months in a row that have caused hundreds of millions of damage that have been done by white supremacists or Qanon shut the hell up.

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Why should they be treated equally? Biden is not the incumbent president.

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Because he WANTS to be President in a couple of months. Any more stupid questions, dipshit?