Trump Muddles Through ABC's 3-on-1 Ambush
Here’s the only excerpt you need to see from last night’s debate:
David Muir: Mr.Trump, you beat your wife Melania 13 times every week. Why are you such a horrible person?
Donald Trump: I don’t beat my wife Melania. And in fact…
David Muir: That’s now how I heard it. Madam Vice President, why is Orange Man Bad such a horrible person?
Kamala Harris: Orange Man Bad is worse than horrible, David. In fact, he beats his wife Melania 87 times every day, as she writes in her new book, which goes on sale October 8, “What it is Like to Live With Orange Man Bad Who Beats Me 87 Times Every Day.”
David Muir: Thank you, Madam Vice President, for that correction of Mr. Trump’s terrible error.
Donald Trump: I need to respond to that…
David Muir: We really must move on, you’ve had your time…
Donald Trump: But Melania’s new book is titled…
David Muir: Mr. Trump, stop interrupting…
Donald Trump: …Melania: A Story Life.
Linsey Davis: Mr. Trump, it is a fact that there is no book on sale today at Amazon under that title! Our crack ABC fact checkers say so! Stop lying!
Donald Trump: Well, it goes on sale October 8, as Kamala said. Why don’t you ask her how she claims to have read a book that doesn’t go on sale for another month?
Linsey Davis: [rolls eyes] Madam Vice President, thanks again for that totally factual information about what is in Melania Trump’s book which, as I just pointed out, doesn’t exist. Which raises the question: Why does Orange Man Bad keep abusing you and me and my sissy boy fellow moderator by interrupting us? Isn’t he just another male chauvanist bully?
Kamala Harris: Well, yes, obviously. I’ve always said so. It’s a fact. He also said he wants to inject bleach into every non-aborted child in the womb and thinks the Ku Klux Klan is “fine people.” You don’t have to believe me, it’s all on video.
David Muir [holds hand to ear and nods]: Yes, our ABC fact checkers assure us those things are true.
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So, I watched Megyn Kelly’s podcast review of the debate, and she went on a long rant about the obviously in-the-tank performance of the debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis. While Kelly is right, my question is, what did she or anyone else expect?