Craziest Moments From Trump & Biden Dueling Town Halls | DIRECT MESSAGE
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report discusses last night's dueling Town Hall events with Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Trump sat down with 'Today' host Savannah Guthrie on NBC while Joe Biden talked with George Stephanopoulos on ABC. Dave breaks down another night of crazy questions, absurd omissions, and ridiculous media bias. Will Joe Biden support Supreme Court packing? Was Trump forced to denounce white supremacy repeatedly? Was Biden asked about the Hunter Biden Burisma scandal reported by the New York Post (spoiler alert: no)? Did Trump get asked about his taxes? Dave shares his highlights and lowlights and gives his reaction to the madness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good people of the Interweb. I'm Dave Rubin. It is October 16th, 2020. It's Friday, |
| 0:14.7 | October 16th, 2020. And I normally don't do direct message shows on Friday. We've |
| 0:20.3 | been doing the direct message Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. But Joe Biden and Donald Trump |
| 0:26.4 | did town halls last night. And I felt that it was important that I get up, put on a shirt, |
| 0:33.4 | and dissect the town halls with you this morning. They were supposed to do a debate last night. |
| 0:39.4 | Remember, that was originally the plan that these two old men were going to do a debate |
| 0:43.7 | after the last debate, which was pretty much a disaster on all fronts. Then Trump got |
| 0:48.0 | COVID. He got cured from COVID. They said they can't do a debate. It doesn't even really |
| 0:51.7 | make any sense because they obviously still could have been standing there. They could have |
| 0:55.1 | had a glass shield and bulletproof glass in between them. They could have just been |
| 1:00.8 | 80 feet apart. Just any sort of ridiculous thing whatsoever. They were going to do it digitally |
| 1:06.4 | like over Zoom. But then Trump actually didn't want to do that, which I think was probably |
| 1:11.4 | a decent choice to not want to do it on Zoom because you just don't know what Biden is |
| 1:16.8 | looking at either on a teleprompter or with the IFB in the ear or the rest of it, not |
| 1:20.9 | to say that Trump couldn't do the exact same things, but they felt that that wasn't the |
| 1:25.1 | right way to do it. So then they just didn't have a debate. Instead, they both had town halls. |
| 1:31.3 | Except one of them wasn't really a town hall. So Donald Trump was on NBC and he was moderated |
| 1:38.9 | by Savannah Guthrie, who obviously is just a Democrat. She's obviously a Democrat. I don't |
| 1:43.9 | think anyone is really thinking she's not a Democrat, but she's a journalist, I suppose. |
| 1:49.5 | They did a town hall, except it was just her asking questions. There were a couple other |
| 1:53.3 | people there, but it wasn't really a town hall. I mean, when we think of a town hall, you |
| 1:57.9 | think of a politician going out there and there are people and you're going to take questions |
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