Trump Says Debate Moderators Shouldn’t Fact-Check, Candidates Should Call Out Each Other

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Donald Trump says debate moderator Lester Holt shouldn’t try to fact-check the candidates at next week’s presidential debate.

Trump says it’s up to the candidates themselves to call out their rivals when they are wrong. Trump spoke Thursday in a telephone interview on “Fox and Friends.” He says the candidates should “argue it out.”

NBC’s Matt Lauer has received criticism for not pointing out factual errors by Trump at a recent forum on national security.

Trump says there’s pressure on NBC’s Holt ahead of Monday’s debate at Hofstra University. He likens it to the pressure former Indiana University basketball coach and Trump supporter Bobby Knight used to put on referees.

Trump says: “A lot of people are watching to see whether or not he succumbs to that pressure.”

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  1. Ah yes, the Whoever-shouts-the-loudest school of debate.

  2. ‘if he does fact check me I’ll puff up and go day-glo orange in my face and stomp my feeties’

    way to work the refs Cheeto…

  3. Irony of ironies, I saw this article at approximately the same time I heard Donald fucking Rumsfeld on MSNBC saying he believes Trump is TRUTHFUL while Hillary is not.

  4. I don’t care if they fact check the candidates in real time I just want there to be a MST3000 version afterwards.

  5. Facts, the truth, and observable reality are a liberal conspiracy. Next up, the Bilderbergs: reptiles or aliens?

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