Donald Trump has never been shy about saying boastful things that aren’t true. This has continued with the presidential debate earlier this month between Trump and Kamala Harris, which everyone on the planet besides Trump seems to agree was won by Harris.
Appearing this week on Fox News’ Gutfeld! show Trump once again reflected on the debate and argued that he had won and been terribly mistreated.
“They didn’t correct her once,” Trump said on the show. “And they corrected everything I said, practically.” In fact, Trump was only fact-checked by the moderators three times: When he claimed migrants in Ohio are eating dogs and cats when he claimed that it is legal in some states to kill a baby after it is born, and when he claimed that he had won the 2020 election. All statements by Trump were indisputably false, while according to CNN’s Daniel Dale, those represented only a small fraction of the more than 30 false statements Trump made throughout the debate.
Trump on the debate: They didn’t correct her once and they corrected me, everything I said practically.. and the audience went absolutely crazy pic.twitter.com/H2SEsIDUg2
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 19, 2024
Stay up-to-date with the latest news!
Subscribe and start recieving our daily emails.
On the Gutfeld show, Trump said something else that was false: “The audience was… they went crazy.” There was, of course, no live audience for the debate.
There was much mockery of the former president for this.
Trump is now claiming there was an audience at a debate that had no audience and for some reason stuff like this is treated a lot differently than Biden making gaffes nowhere near as ridiculous https://t.co/nBqbqll8Ly
— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) September 19, 2024
How is it that Trump hallucinated an audience being present during the debate and we’ve just moved on as if this isn’t a sign of a serious mental problem? Biden – wisely – agreed to step aside for far less than that.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 19, 2024
Trump hallucinates a studio audience for the Harris-Trump debate where there was no studio audience. https://t.co/qihJe3hEjd
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 19, 2024
Trump then went on to take credit for the debate’s high ratings. In the same interview, Trump expressed regret that he did not “go after” the ABC moderators.
Speaking of the debate, there continues to be no substantiation of the viral affidavit from last week by an “ABC News whistleblower,” which claimed that ABC supplied “sample questions” to Harris and otherwise was biased in the vice president’s favor.
No lawyer has come forward claiming to represent the whistleblower, nor has any proof emerged that the person really works for ABC News. The story that the whistleblower had died in a car accident appears to be completely bogus, too. Mother Jones did a deep dive into the “story.”:
“The affidavit claimed that Harris was promised she wouldn’t be questioned about the health of Joe Biden or her tenure as ‘Attorney General in San Francisco’—a position that doesn’t exist.'” https://t.co/Z6AuQiDru9
— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) September 18, 2024
Featured image via Political Tribune gallery.
