During the commercial break, White House print pool reporter Tyler Pager of the Washington Post was briefly permitted to go into the studio with photographers.
"POTUS and former President Donald Trump were both standing at their lecterns, staring straight ahead as photographers snapped photos.
Neither of them said anything or made eye contact with one another. POTUS cracked a smile at the photogs, and as the pool was being ushered out, Trump took a sip of water from a plastic bottle."
It frustrates me that this election will likely come down to bluster-filled lies vs. good policies delivered weakly.
@TonyStark here ya go Tony. Politifact to the rescue:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/jun/27/2024-presidential-debate-live-fact-check/
SERIOUS mistake by #CNN not to provide real-time fact-checking during the #debate. They are letting the convicted felon LIE constantly, without ANY pushback, and then expecting #Biden to defend against it. And I don’t want to hear about how Biden looks tired, is misspeaking, etc. The convicted felon is straight up LYING ON NATIONAL TV with wild abandon, with no consequences. FFS.
You can’t keep up with all the lies. Too bad CNN didn’t just put Daniel Dale off to the side to fix this live on air.
Fact check: Trump falsely claims the US had no terrorist attacks during his presidency | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/politics/fact-check-trump-speech-new-hampshire/index.html
"What's happened to this country's reputation under his [Biden's] leadership is horrible. We're a laughing stock." #Debate #FactCheck
You know what? I don't give a damn what Biden's voice sounds like. He's not the one trying to destroy our county. End of story. #Biden
@tristansnell exactly. Why oh why didn't the moderators ask him HOW he would do that?
Fun fact about the debate: It’s the first time the Secret Service has allowed a convicted felon to get this close to the President of the United States — Tristan Snell #quotes #quote #ConvictedFelonTrump #Debate
Instead of this shitshow of a debate…
…let’s get caught up with a little reality about the Party of Plague.
Trump’s covid response was even worse than you remember; In a sane country, it would disqualify him from ever again holding office. Remember him telling people that lights would cure COVID? Remember telling people to use bleach, like, internally? I do.
“What repeated #COVID19 infections are doing to us,” in the form of long-term disability, moreso than early death, though if you’re wondering – are COVID deaths massively undercounted? Why yes, yes they are, as this new analysis from Boston University (New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths) demonstrates.
So as bird flu and much-more-contageous monkeypox variants are floating around, what’s the Republican response?
What do you think?
Trump vows to defund schools requiring vaccines for students if he’s reelected
It’s still the party of plague, and it’s still a death cult.
[link] #medicine #politics #USPol #covid19 #politics #uspol #uspolitics
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