Former President Donald Trump made an appearance on Fox News late-night host Greg Gutfeld’s program where he revealed that his biggest regret from his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 10 was that he “wanted to be elegant” and decided against “going after” ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. I’d say he still did pretty well during the event since it was essentially a three-on-done debate.
According to The Daily Wire, Trump was asked during his interview on “Gutfeld!” about the mainstream media’s obvious bias against him. The GOP nominee responded by noting that the ABC date and moderators fact-checked him live on several occasions.
“I walked off that stage and thought I had the best debate, and I was very unfairly treated by the anchor. I’m not fans of those guys anymore, and you know, his hair was better five years ago,” Trump went on to say, referring to Muir.
Trump mentioned being fact-checked by Muir on rising crime rates, saying, “It turned out to be a false attack.” Muir cited FBI crime statistics to push back on Trump’s statement that crime rates across the country are rising. A DOJ report released just days after the debate, however, supported Trump’s claims, revealing that violent crime has spiked under the Biden-Harris administration. Trump added that the moderators said nothing when Harris repeated the Left-wing lie about Trump’s Charlottesville comments.
“They didn’t correct her once, and they corrected me [on] everything I said practically — I think nine times or 11 times,” Trump continued.
Conservatives blasted the ABC News moderators during and after the debate, arguing that the fact-checks on Trump and none on Harris put the former president in an impossible-to-win fight. The former president argued that in the days following the debate, more people realized that it “was all word salad” from Harris, adding that no matter how well he debated, the legacy media would claim that Trump “was nothing special.”
“I had people telling me that I’m wrong about things when I’m totally right. I was right about just about all of that stuff, and they were correcting me,” he said during the interview. “And I think my only regret is that I wanted to be elegant, and I didn’t want to go after the anchors. I wish I did, in a way.”
I think we all wish Trump had went after the moderators. We all know they would have deserved whatever he dished out to them. A moderator during a debate is not supposed to be inserting themselves in the event. How many times did Muir essentially argue with Trump and contradict things he said or used “I” when talking about certain fact-checks. We tuned in to see a substantive discussion on the issues that matter to regular Americans, not hear a liberal media hack push the progressive agenda and paint Trump up to be some sort of villain.
Neither one of these individuals should ever be allowed to moderate a debate again.