Jim Schlossnagle really has been a disrespectful prick though

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump squared off on Thursday night in the first of two scheduled debates of the 2024 presidential campaign.  CNN hosted the debate, which took place in Atlanta. The network declared that the first presidential debate would be held without a live audience, but would include two commercial breaks—the first presidential debate in history to have ads.  CNN also granted the debate moderators a new power; namely, the ability to mute one candidate when the other was speaking.  Many of those decisions drew ire from critics, but the network’s choice of the debate’s two moderators probably drew the most criticism. Moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash have openly and consistently expressed disdain for Trump, accusing Trump of crimes ranging from Russian collusion and corruption to channeling Adolf Hitler and not “trusting the science” during COVID-19. Tapper has made a point of refusing to show widely covered Trump rallies and speeches on CNN, explaining that Trump was too “mean” to air clips of him with audio.  However, perhaps because of criticism of Tapper and Bash ahead of the debate, they were largely fair and evenhanded in their treatment of Trump. Here are four of the major highlights of Thursday’s debate. 1) Medicare for Illegal Aliens? When discussing his economic record, Biden appeared to lose his way, pausing for several seconds, stuttering, and leading to a claim that he “beat Medicare.” “… Making sure we make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with COVID, excuse me, with umm, dealing with everything we had to deal with. Look, we finally beat Medicare,” the president said. Trump responded: “Well, he’s right. He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death.” ?Great debate moment?Biden: "We finally beat Medicare."Trump: "He's right, he did beat Medicare. He beat it to death." pic.twitter.com/oCFGijp6nz— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) June 28, 2024 Trump then claimed that a large number of illegal immigrants were allowed onto the Medicare and Social Security rolls. At the southern border, illegal immigrants who are taken into Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are given medical treatment, shelter, and meals. The ICE Health Service Corps’ current policy is to reimburse those providing those services “at Medicare rates.” While illegal immigrants are ordinarily not eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, noncitizen parents with “birthright citizenship” children are eligible for Medicaid. Trump further suggested that Biden would destroy Social Security by overloading it with the cost of illegal immigrants added to the rolls. Biden announced a plan this week to provide some illegal immigrants with work permits and Social Security numbers, which would increase the spending burden on the struggling federal program. 2) Support for Late-Term Abortions? As Trump and Biden discussed the topic of abortion, Biden appeared to equate the deaths of American women at the hands of illegal immigrants to purported efforts to stop women who are attempting to cross state lines to get abortions.  “There’s so many young women who have been, including the young woman who just was murdered, and he went to the funeral, and the idea that she was murdered by an immigrant, they talk about that, but here’s the deal, there’s a lot of young women who are being raped by their in-laws, by their spouses, brothers and sisters. It’s just ridiculous … and they try to arrest them when they cross state lines,” Biden said.  President Biden, discussing abortion, appears to equate the brutal murders of girls by illegal aliens to stopping girls from trying to get abortions: "There's so many young women who have been, including the young woman who just was murdered, and he went to the funeral, and the… pic.twitter.com/oUFm8rT0bY— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) June 28, 2024 Biden emphasized that his party supports the restrictions on abortion imposed by Roe v. Wade.  Trump argued that Biden and Democrats support allowing babies to die after they have been born alive, pointing to former Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s comments on what his critics called infanticide.  Biden, angered by Trump’s remarks, emphatically argued that Roe v. Wade does not allow for late-term abortion.  “We are not for late-term abortion. Period. Period. Period,” the president said.  “Under Roe v. Wade, you have late-term abortion,” Trump said, pushing back. “You can do whatever you want, depending on the state. We don’t think that’s a good thing. We think it’s a radical thing. Democrats are the radicals, not the Republicans.” President Biden, angered by Trump highlighting infanticide, breaks from Dems on abortion: "We are not for late term abortion. Period. Period. Period." Trump: "Under Roe v. Wade, you have late term abortion. You can do whatever you want, depending on the state. We don't think… pic.twitter.com/tmPRkPK1Sd— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) June 28, 2024 3) Charlottesville and ‘Very Fine People’  Biden falsely claimed that Trump had said white supremacists and neo-Nazis were “very fine people” at a rally in Charlottesville, Va., and that that 2017 event had inspired him to run for president. Joe Biden brings up the Charlottesville "fine people on both sides hoax."This is the moment when unbiased moderators would point out to Joe Biden that Snopes and every other fact checker have pointed out that it's a lie.Yet Jake Tapper and Dana Bash naturally didn't do it. pic.twitter.com/6iU48Ibstj— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 28, 2024 Trump responded that the claim of “very fine people” on both sides had been debunked by “reputable” anchors. It was also debunked just this week by the fact-check site Snopes. Trump actually said, “And you had people—and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists—because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists” to describe those attending a protest over a Confederate statue being taken down. CHARLOTTESVILLE HOAX“And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.” pic.twitter.com/EwWcV26qnK— ALX ?? (@alx) June 28, 2024 Snopes and other outlets fact-checked the claim that Trump had referred to “white nationalists” or “white supremacists” as “very fine people,” and rated the claim as “false.” Biden reiterated that the claim had not been “debunked” and said that Trump was a “liar.” 4) Border Patrol Endorsement Biden falsely claimed that he had been endorsed by the Border Patrol, saying, “By the way, the Border Patrol endorsed me, endorsed my position.”   Here's the clip of Joe Biden claiming he was endorsed by the Border Patrol.Another lie. https://t.co/zuhka6RW5V pic.twitter.com/sVLhbpRFit— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 28, 2024 The Border Patrol Union fact-checked Biden in real time during the debate, tweeting: “To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.” The president also made rather garbled remarks discussing the need for more Border Patrol officers and more asylum officers, to which Trump responded: “I really don’t know what he said. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”  “We had the safest border in the history of our country,” Trump added. “All he had to do is leave it. He decided to open up our border, open up our country, to people that are from prisons, people from mental institutions, insane asylums, terrorists. We have the largest number of terrorists coming into our country right now, all terrorists, all over the world … from the Middle East, everywhere.”  ?REMINDER?HR2 has been sitting on Schumer's desk for 413 days.HR2 is the ONLY border bill that passed.The Senate bill NEVER passed.Biden broke our border ON PURPOSE & now we're overrun with millions of illegals.No amount of Joe Biden gaslighting can change these facts. pic.twitter.com/1o7Krr0KTj— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) June 28, 2024 The post Trump vs. Biden: 4 Highlights From the First Presidential Debate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Surprises Lurk Beneath Humble Exteriors

Moments after concluding their presidential debate Thursday night, CNN journalists were in a full-blown panic over President Biden’s performance. They were disturbed by Biden’s “problematic” and “dismal” performance and admitted they were hearing from very senior Democrats that they were seriously thinking about removing Biden from the top of the ticket. “Anderson this was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” chief national correspondent John King announced. King admitted that he was hearing from Democrats that they were scrambling for a way to install a different candidate: It started minutes into the debate and it continues right now. It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers. And they're having conversations about the President's performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket and they're having conversations about what they should do about it. Some of those conversations include: should we go to the White House and asked the President step aside? Others are other the conversations are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call. But because they feel this debate was so terrible. They do say in moments in a debate later, the President got better and got his footing. But then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting.”     “And it involves very senior people in the Democratic Party, including elected officials saying we have a problem,” he added. Anchor Abby Phillip said she wanted to “co-sign” King’s assessment and confirmed the panic. “I mean, the panic that I am hearing from Democrats is not like anything that I have heard in this campaign so far,” she warned. She lamented that while Trump lied a bunch of times, “Biden's answers were in a lot of cases, not coherent.” Phillip also proclaimed that Biden confirmed many Americans’ fears about his age: Deeply problematic that he was not able to take pretty straightforward answers and answer them to the American public. And then also at some points bringing things up that teed up Trump attacks. So, there's a real concern here tonight that there's been some real damage done that cannot be undone. Biden solidified the perception among voters, but especially among his base. They were hoping that tonight would be a game-changer. “They are now seeing a president who was in the White House do they do not necessarily believe can do this for another four years,” she said. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN Post-Debate Analysis June 27, 2024 10:40:10 p.m. Eastern (…) JOHN KING: Anderson this was a game changing debate in the sense that right now as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party. It started minutes into the debate and it continues right now. It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers. And they're having conversations about the President's performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket and they're having conversations about what they should do about it. Some of those conversations include: should we go to the White House and asked the President step aside? Others are other the conversations are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call. But because they feel this debate was so terrible. They do say in moments in a debate later, the President got better and got his footing. But then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting. The contrast between the two candidates. Let me be clear. None of them and a lot of Republicans don't think Donald Trump had a great night. Donald Trump broke the fact check machine more than I can count tonight. That will be on the record as we go forward. He refused to answer some very specific and direct questions about his conduct, about January 6, and what all. So, that will be dealt with out there. And sometimes there's a parallel universe between the political elites and the American people. Be nice to see what the voters say. But I can tell you it started minutes in, it started with the first couple of answers and it has continued throughout the night from a “my oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god,” to, “what do we do about this?” And it involves very senior people in the Democratic Party, including elected officials saying we have a problem. ABBY PHILLIP: And just to co-sign what John is saying. I mean, the panic that I am hearing from Democrats is not like anything that I have heard in this campaign so far. And a lot of it has to do with, first of all, there was a deep frustration about Trump's lies. I mean, he lied a lot tonight, but the problem for Biden was that Trump was able to take some sometimes incredible falsehoods and turn them into some kind of argument. Whereas, Biden's answers we're in a lot of cases, not coherent. Deeply problematic that he was not able to take pretty straightforward answers and answer them to the American public. And then also at some points bringing things up that teed up Trump attacks. So, there's a real concern here tonight that there's been some real damage done that cannot be undone. Biden solidified the perception among voters, but especially among his base. They were hoping that tonight would be a game changer. They are now seeing a president who was in the White House do they do not necessarily believe can do this for another four years. (…)

President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, faced off in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday night for their first debate of the 2024 cycle.The debate was moderated by CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.'President Trump, will you take any action as president to slow the climate crisis?'Bash asked Trump whether he would "block abortion medication.""I will not block it," Trump said.At one point, after Biden finished delivering some remarks, Trump said that he didn't know what Biden had said at the end of a sentence, adding that he didn't even think Biden knew what he had said.When Tapper asked Trump what he would say to voters who think he violated his oath to uphold the Constitution on January 6, 2021, Trump responded that he does not think many people believe that. Trump claimed that on January 6, the U.S. "had a great border," was "energy independent," "had the lowest taxes ever," "the lowest regulations ever," and was "respected all over the world.""What happened to the United States' reputation under this man's leadership is horrible," Trump declared, referring to Biden.When asked whether he thinks those who vote for Trump will be voting against U.S. democracy, Biden said "the more they know about what he's done, yes."Bash asked a question that assumed as fact there is a "climate crisis." "President Trump, will you take any action as president to slow the climate crisis?" she asked."I want absolutely immaculate clean water. And I want absolutely clean air," Trump said."The only existential threat to humanity is climate change," Biden asserted.Trump declared that Biden will "drive us into World War III." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Joe Biden faced off against former President Donald Trump in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election on CNN, and social media lit up with responses. Biden and Trump traded blows, but the broad consensus was that Biden sounded weak and frail while Trump was aggressive and far more energetic. Many who were backing before the debate are panicking. 'I NEVER thought he would be this bad. Stunning. Truly.'Journalists and celebrities who viewed the debate were shocked. "Look. This debate was a total and complete disaster for Biden. He looked old. His answers trailed off repeatedly. He was hard to understand. He would stop in mid sentence and move on to something else. I NEVER thought he would be this bad. Stunning. Truly," said journalist Chris Cillizza. "Two candidates walked into tonight’s debate talking about how the other was a threat to democracy. They finished by yelling at each other about their golf handicaps," said CNN reporter Edward-Isaac Devore. "What sucks is, if you listen to Biden's WORDS, they're great. But there's not enough breath left in him for the words to reach your ears," replied liberal actor Michael Ian Black. "This is difficult to watch," said former NFL star J.J. Watt. 'This is an absolute nightmare for Biden.'Many of those critical of Donald Trump on the right were also shocked by Biden's bad performance. "Biden looks and sounds terrible. He looks and sounds so old. So old," wrote former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh. "Trump is Trump, every word out of his mouth is bulls***. But Biden sounds old. And lost. And that’s going to matter more than anything. So far, this is an absolute nightmare for Biden.""Sorry, I’m voting for President Biden but a disaster so far," responded GOP strategist Mike Murphy. "I’m going to go home tonight, kiss my kid and wife goodnight, pour a stiff drink, watch the Last Hurrah and have a quiet cry.""Hearing from countless viewers of all political stripes and the consensus is Biden needs to be replaced. It’s worse than I believe most people imagined," responded conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin."Forget the election, this is heading into 25th amendment territory," said Sarah Isgur."In boxing, if you’re punch drunk, the referee calls a TKO (technical knockout). It would be a blessing if CNN would call the fight now and put Biden out of his misery," said Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the official account for the Democratic Party proclaimed Biden the winner of the debate. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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