Let’s Not Pretend Like Biden and Trump Faced the Same Scrutiny Last Night

I re-watched both broadcasts and noted just how different the two town halls were.  For instance, in the opening moments of Trump’s town hall, NBC attack-dog Savannah Guthrie went after Trump no fewer than three times about Trump’s testing in the days leading up to the debate.  Despite Trump telling her that he couldn’t remember specifically when he took the test before the last debate, Guthrie continued to ask when he had been tested before the debate.  She pushed on whether or not Trump had any symptoms currently, despite White House Doctors saying for days that the President isn’t contagious, and now has tested negative twice for the virus.

Trump was pressured on masks, quoting Chris Christie’s comment that he should have been wearing a mask. Trump quoted the CDC report that showed that of 314 recent infections in symptomatic adults ≥18 years who were outpatients in 11 academic health care facilities, 70%+ wore a mask all of the time, with only 3% not wearing a mask at all, further highlighting the debate on the effectiveness of masks in the first place.  It was then that Guthrie lost me altogether, saying that wasn’t what the study said.  The fact is, it is what they study said, and for Guthrie to say that is a flat out lie.

Guthrie pushed Trump on QAnon, which Trump, frankly should have shed a long time ago, but of course, Trump wouldn’t accept her unilateral defining and told her essentially, that just because she said something didn’t make it true.  If anyone has been paying attention to the media for the last several years, Trump’s right.