Clinton: Trump’s Mic Complaints Proof He Was ‘Not Having A Good Night’

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Speaking to reporters on her campaign plane on Tuesday morning after the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton jabbed at Donald Trump for attributing his uneven performance to a “bum mic.”

“Anybody who complains about the microphone is not having a good night,” Clinton said when asked about his “stamina.” He’s repeatedly criticized the former secretary of state as lacking the stamina needed to be commander-in-chief.

Trump, who initially praised moderator and NBC News anchor Lester Holt’s “fair” questions, phoned in to “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday to insist that some of the questions that came his way were “hostile” and that a “terrible” microphone prevented the audience at Hofstra University from hearing his responses well.

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  1. Donnie needs to once again keep working on getting past not having a good night because of the terrible microphone and the unfair questions from the hostile moderator on the never saying climate change was a hoax and clarification of stop-and-frisk and the getting on with the campaign by ending the birther controversy of the recent dodge of the economic word salad of the teleprompter glitch of the trickster King of the muddied stance of the claim of the not lengthy or memorable phone call of the hardening of the softening of the detail dodging of the walk-back of the flip-flop of the sarcasm of the stumble of the tongue of the obfuscation of the abbreviated language of what the loser liberal media poorly covered during the earpiece malfunction of his original, widely documented comments.

  2. Working the refs or blaming the mic is a loser’s game!

  3. Is there any truth to the rumor that Hillary Clinton said: “I hope you’re ready to debate tonight, Donald, because I’m going to spread your ass all over this stage,”?

    That Gif NEVER gets old.

  4. I don’t understand this line of complaint. The TeeVee audience was hearing what came through the same microphone…and I heard every word he said. Nothing wrong with it

  5. Has he blamed the dog for eating his debate notes yet?

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