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Rosco T.

(6,496 posts)
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 10:20 PM Aug 2016

How long into the 1st debate (if it happens) will Don the Con say "Crooked Hillary"....

.. and will the moderator call him on it, Will Trump stomp off stage? Will he get worse? Will he get thrown off?


And when can Hillary sue his dumb add for slander and libel for the "Crooked Hillary" bullshit?

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still_one

(92,403 posts)
1. I am sure of one thing, the debate moderators will do all they can to incite as much ugliness as
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 10:23 PM
Aug 2016

possible

salin

(48,955 posts)
3. 3 minutes, the moderator won't call him on it, he will get worse.
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 10:35 PM
Aug 2016

Will he get thrown off? Probably not. Based on his primary debates, he only got thrown off when insults were slung back on him. And that never led to a sizeable bump up from his opponents. Clinton has the most challenging debate prep that a candidate has faced in a long time.

To trip him up she has to get bathe in the insult fest (which is all he does), but that counters any policy talk or any effort to maintain dignity over his gutter-talk.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
4. I can't wait for the debates.
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 10:40 PM
Aug 2016

It will finally be crystal clear for the idiots who don't see the difference.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,857 posts)
5. It's very hard for politicians to sue.
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 10:41 PM
Aug 2016

If it was easy, the Clintons could have become multi-millionaires long ago from lawsuits alone.

Libel laws are very one-sided and it's the reason that conservative propagandists can repeatedly get away with their lying nonsense about our government.

If a corporation was accused of hiding aliens from another planet for nefarious reasons, they could more easily sue and win.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
6. Sue????? Never. Would happen. Hillary would be laughed out of court.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 12:48 AM
Aug 2016

Luckily she knows how politics works.

tikka

(762 posts)
7. What are the moderators going to do when Trump acts up?
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 04:50 AM
Aug 2016

His antics will destroy any pretense of a serious debate. If they keep reprimanding him every time he does something bizarre or resorts to name-calling, that will be all that happens. Trump will say that the debate was rigged and he didn't get to speak. I figure that the moderators won't even try to control him; partly for the ratings and partly because they don't know how to control him.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
8. Hillary herself will have to ask him to knock it off and grow up...
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 07:39 AM
Aug 2016

And I hope she does. The "moderators and journalists" this year have been exceptionally poor with controlling Trump and not calling out the major bullshit spin.

clutterbox1830

(395 posts)
9. This almost given that this will happen. Also I don't expect the mod will do anything.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 08:06 AM
Aug 2016

Even if they say to stop I don't expect him too. We will have his excuse ready.

In Trump camp, what can they do to make him stop? Media is pretty tame to him so far way does he suspect any different from the mods.

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