And so it begins.
No handshakes tonight!
I'm sorry it's a "town hall" format with the audience asking questions. Bound to be boring. The first question sure was a yawn, about whether they are a good role model for today's youth. It's a ridiculous question for Hillary, no one has questioned her behavior as a candidate. Trump avoids the answer and gives a speech about what he believes.
Anderson calls him on the diversion, and he talks about ISIS cutting off heads. Trump calls his tape locker-rule banter. Anderson tries again and gets the same talk about ISIS. He mentions he'll create jobs.
Update: After some blatently false statements about Hillary and Bill, from claims she didn't fairly win the nomination to she's never accomplished anything, Trump says if he's elected he'll appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary. Hillary responds and he says "Because you'd be in jail."
Hillary: "Trump lives in an alternate reality".
Anderson asks Hillary about Trump's tape. Hillary says for the first time, we have a Republican candidate is unfit to serve.
He sounds like a nut case. Also, he is frowning and pacing while she talks. He can't stay still. I wonder if he has ADHD.
We're back to Hillary's emails. Yawn. After which, Trump asks the moderators, when are you going to ask about her emails. They tell him they just did.
A question directly asks him which provision of the tax code helps people like him. He can't answer, he deflects. He doesn't know the tax code.
He is simply disgusting. It's just too hard to listen to him.
It has taken him an hour to bring up Benghazi. (By the way, Trump advocated sending in our military to take out Gaddafi in 2011. Here is the video.) He says the vacuum we left in Libya led to ISIS (didn't he say the same thing about Iraq?) He's back on ISIS. Russia, Syria and Iran are fighting them, we are not.
Trump: "How Stupid is Our Country".
Trump tells the moderator he disagrees with Pence about use of force in Syria. Hillary says she would not use ground troops in Syria. She says she would target al-Baghdadi and rely more on the Kurds. She wants to push ISIS out of Iraq.
Trump whines that she's getting too much time to answer questions.
Trump: "She has a tremendous amount of hate in her heart."
Last question: What do you respect about the other candidate. The only possible answer for Hillary, she respects his children. He respects that she never quits. They shook hands at the end.
What a horrid debate. Time for another shower.
Update: Another lie: ICE did not endorse him. Agencies don't endorse candidates. A union of ICE employees named The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council endorsed him. Big difference. Trump said:
ICE just endorsed me. They've never endorsed a presidential candidate. The Border Patrol agents, 16,500, just recently endorsed me, and they endorsed me because I understand the border.
Update: Trump falsely claimed ISIS has interests in Libyan oil.
Look what she did and Libya with Gaddafi. Gadhafi is out. It’s a mess. And by the way ISIS has a good chunk of their oil.
ISIS has never controlled any oil in Libya and has been losing ground there for months. Libyan news reports it only remains in one district of Sirte, and just barely. (Although ISIS says it launched an attack in recent days, it had nothing to do with oil.) ISIS attacked the Es-Sidra and Ras Lanuf oil export terminals in Sirte 10 months ago. It didn't take the oil, it blew up stuff. ISIS hasn't sold or exported any oil.
False claim about the San Bernardino attackers:
Mr. Trump said “many people saw” bombs all over the apartment of a couple who committed the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
