Biden interrupted Trump 6 times, Chris Wallace 3 times before Trump began to fight back....
You are being GENEROUS, 2A, you are not counting Biden's laughs and sneers and other acts of open contempt. In the first 17 minutes, Biden rudely interjected himself into Trump's time 12 times, Wallace 5 times, before Trump finally had it and realized he was not going to get anything in unless he started fighting back!
The effort from the start was to delegitimize Trump, Biden even avoided looking at or directly addressing the president as if he weren't even there by hardly looking at him and addressing all comments to Wallace or the camera. At one point, Biden even said of his opponent: "I'm not even listening to him."
How do you have a debate that way?
Had Wallace been a true moderator, he would have told Biden right out to please wait until his turn and to please address his replies about Trump TO Trump, and that it was INAPPROPRIATE to ignore your own opponent in a 2-party debate. But he didn't.
- Biden REFUSED to answer questions. Wallace should have told him he has to give SOME answer.
- Trump should have pointed out that most of Wallace's questions were leading, based on assuming some negative that Trump had done which he then had to defend.
- Wallace cut Trump off from speaking in his own time slot several times after Biden had interrupted to turn the mic over to Biden to continue with what he was saying, yet when Trump interrupted Biden to comment, Wallace excoriated him to ALSO allow Biden to continue. It was a lose-lose for Trump either way.
- Wallace should have reprimanded Biden after telling Trump to shut up, after all, the point of the meeting was to DEBATE, and Trump IS the president.
- Wallace repeatedly interrupted Trump throughout the debate while he was in the middle of answering a question, changing the subject.
- Wallace cut Trump off in the middle of his explaining the Covid shutdown, the topic polls show was the subject people were most interested in hearing about!
- Wallace gave Biden time back for interruptions but never gave Trump any time back for Biden's interruptions.
- Biden admitted that 1 of every 6 businesses were already gone, lost, closed forever due to the shutdowns, then claimed you can't fix the economy until you fix Covid! Of course you can! The economy is collapsing due to the shutdowns, not Covid, and you can't fix Covid until there is a vaccine. Even if it takes years to develop a vaccine, you just can't keep the economy shut down that long, otherwise, you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, you'll have no country to go back to, the shutdowns will end up doing MORE HARM and killing MORE PEOPLE than the actual virus you were trying to protect us from!
- Wallace asked Trump a question on taxes then argued with him and wouldn't allow him to answer it!
- When Trump pointed out that Biden hadn't done anything in 25 years, Wallace cut him off.
- The first shitfest occurred after Trump started pointing out how Hunter had received 3.5 million from Russia and Wallace cut him off, then Wallace turned around and claimed it was open discussion.
- Wallace repeatedly protected Biden from questions from Trump and to let Biden keep talking while constantly cutting Trump off.
- Wallace started shouting over Trump to interrupt him as Biden attacked Trump's family.
- Biden claims there is systematic injustice towards Blacks after admitting being in office for 47 years.
- Wallace repeatedly refused Trump time to refute allegations by Biden while allowing Biden to speak.
- Wallace tried to lead Trump into condemning group on white supremacy which isn't even a white supremacy group to imply that Trump's followers are racist and violent.
- When asked why people should vote for him, Trump made the mistake at the end of focusing just on his strengths rather than bringing up Biden's shortcomings and the ways he'd be a far worse president.
These were taken from actual notes made while re-watching the debate. The entire debate was slanted against Trump by a hostile moderator who then used Trump's efforts at regaining fairness to paint Trump as a bully. Rewatching the debate, I had a far better impression that Trump was the much more respectful and professional of the two between him and Biden.
Now that we know that Trump was actually getting sick and not fully himself when that debate occurred, they ought to have it all over.
