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The Hartmann Report

DECONSTRUCTING THE BIDEN VS TRUMP DEBATE

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Why did the debate between Trump and Biden devolve into interruptions and lies? Is there a connection to the deep racism Trump is actively courting- and encouraging?

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0:00.0

Let me give you a little background on this first one and I'm going to pick up your phone

0:24.4

calls here with this train wreck we saw or maybe it wasn't a train wreck.

0:28.5

Maybe what it was was, you know, just a really visible manifestation of what's real right

0:33.6

now.

0:34.6

We have a racist president calling out to racially based, racially motivated terrorists

0:39.9

in the United States to disrupt our elections.

0:43.5

There's no other way to say it.

0:45.8

And on top of that, we had a so-called debate in which very little debating went on.

0:50.8

Instead, it was just yelling and tantruming.

0:53.9

I mean, the Lincoln Project has an ad out with pictures of Trump doing what he was doing

0:58.6

and the sound of a baby crying over it.

1:00.6

I mean, this is, we know he has the emotional maturity of a seven-year-old, but even to

1:06.2

talk like that, diminishes how serious this is.

1:10.2

This is the problem that Germany had in the early 30s when everybody was making fun of

1:14.0

Adolf Hitler because he was that funny guy with a mustache.

1:16.2

He was always doing the Mussolini salute.

1:18.6

What's with that?

1:21.5

And nobody took him seriously.

1:24.2

Take this guy seriously.

1:26.9

So anyhow, the Commission on Presidential Debates issued a statement, the saying, and I quote,

1:34.3

last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of

1:38.6

the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.

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