The ABC Debate moderators were right to fact-check Donald Trump

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[flenif]

They "fact checked" the most egregious lies. Cause they were just too outrageous not to push back on.

[YorkDLance]

If telling the truth makes you “biased” then we’ve failed as a nation.

[Snowshowslow]

Has Jon Favreau been sitting in a chair that's too low for him this whole time?

[maryhilton]

I’m concerned with why people are upset with their candidate getting fact check more than they’re upset that he needed to be fact checked in the first place.

[dirtydawg-]

I've never laughed so hard as hearing Trump say immigrants are eating our pets. Well except for when he said crazies from insane asylums are stealing jobs from the blacks. Holy

[tenacious]

I loved how she obviously baited him! The prosecutor in her came out. She said don't take my word for it Go to one of his rallies see for yourself, and hear him talk about fictitious people and windmills etc. Oh but what really got him is when she said lol his rally attendees were bored

[WDSimp]

It feels like the debate became elder abuse at a certain point. How the Republican party can be so cruel as to put this spiraling old man out there to be torn apart by a trained prosecutor on prime time national television is astonishing. Do they really have no one better in all their ranks?

[Sugerplum]

He didn't give a single straightforward answer.

[sateentuoksu]

How on earth did you americans get to the point of seriously debating over if the one wanting to be a president should or should not lie (all the time)? And whether the lies should be corrected and pointed out

And half of the population not caring if one lies - or believing those lies, how ever crazy they are

I sometimes wonder how the world feels when you reach that state of mind (that you really believe in all that sht, and fiercely defend it)

[JDMimeTHEFIRST]

Every time he lies, they should make him wait, mute his mic, and fact check him in detail. And the link to actual facts should show up on the screen. Because people are dumb

[maysville]

Do we really want the washed-up old, crazy geezer back? I vote no,

[shersunn]

Having to fact check such things is pathetic

[Strategic_Reformer]

Dogs get the spotlight, but we just gonna ignore he claimed we're forcing transgender surgeries on prisoners?

[lauramyers]

My favorite line of the night was when Kamala said “Putin would eat you for lunch.” So true!!💙💙

[sandrabryant]

The thing is she may have misspoke a few times but he was straight up writing a science fiction movie live on air.

[alexvyse]

We need FSB checking as much as fact checking.

[a.s.]

Voting prevents unwanted presidencies !!

[whysoserious]

Nobody is complaining that the moderators cut off Harris, but gave Trump extra time.

[coachtaewherbalife]

I'm sure he got the idea of eating dogs from his time with rfk jr.

[TukaihaHithlec]

“Big Bird, binders, and bayonets” blown out of the fucking water