Chris Wallace cannot let it go.
Fox News’ Chris Wallace placing the blame directly on Trump for the debate “fiasco’ and taking cheap shots at the President over his positive COVID test.
Fox News reported on Wallace’s claims that the debate was Trump’s fault:
Wallace, who moderated the 94-minute clash in Cleveland, began by joking that the highlights host Bill Hemmer played had led to a recurrence the “PTSD” he had “just gotten over.”
“My initial reaction was, ‘This is great’ because so often these debates become parallel news conferences where one candidate answers the question to him, the other candidate answers the question to him,” Wallace recalled. “So when the president started engaging with Biden, I thought we were gonna have a real debate here.”
However, Wallace went on, “it became clear, and clearer over time that this was something different and that the president was determined to try to butt in or throw Joe Biden off … I saw another Fox analysis that indicates the president interrupted either Biden’s answers or my questions a total of 145 times, which is way more than one a minute. And he bears the primary responsibility for what happened on Tuesday night.”
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“At a certain point, 45 minutes in, I called a halt to the debate for a moment and said ‘You know, this isn’t really serving America and please stop the interruptions,'” Wallace told Hemmer. “And the president said, ‘Well, why don’t you admonish him? And I said, ‘Because you’re doing a lot more of the interrupting, Mr. President.’ Biden was doing some, no question about it, but less than half as many times as the president.”
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Wallace then discussed with “Fox & Friends” that he was going to get tested for COVID while taking shots at Trump:
“There was no sign during the debate of any problems with the president in terms of his health, but it is worth noting that the different people treated the safety rules inside the hall differently,” Wallace said.
The “Fox News Sunday” host did say he noticed that after everyone was tested for COVID-19 at the Cleveland Clinic, everyone was told to wear a mask except for Trump, Joe Biden, and himself. However, he said the first family, including Mrs. Trump, did not wear a mask.
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The debate moderator pointed to the part in Tuesday’s debate when Trump made fun of Biden’s large mask and only being able to get crowds of six people.
“That’s going to get played a lot today and, you know, as I say, it’ll speak for itself and people will decide whether they think that’s legitimate or not,” he said.
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Wallace’s debate performance was not viewed favorably among his colleagues either. We reported about that HERE.
