Official First Debate Thread

Holt is fantastic, like a good umpire, you don't even know he's there

 

And there is the mic drop on the crime stats.

 

Trump is an idiot. What's amazing is that this buffoon has made it this far.

 

Policing is an issue Trump sounds confident on. Economics, not at all. Just merely repeating the same sound bites over and over.

 

I read debates weren't even supposed to have moderators at all. I think he is doing as well as he can.

 

This was exactly my point. It's not as if he's doing anything wrong, but there's no way anyone is going to accept it that way. The IRS allows you to take certain deductions, and I certainly take my fair share. But I still pay about the same in taxes as my non-self-employed friends, it's just that I'd be paying way more if I didn't. And I'll tell you, it's much more difficult in several ways when you're self-employed, such as getting loans.

But if his taxes show he's paying something like zero taxes, oh yeah, that's a problem.

 

Trump's only card is trade deals and emails.

 

Clinton just gave him a smack done on law and order.

 

Hillary just totally let the air out of the "law and order candidate" balloon.

Time to pivot, Donald.

 

Being prepared...good. Sounding canned...bad.

 

it wasn't a bad reply on her part...but that's a reach.

 

really? Trump has claimed he's given all this money to various charities. He's been challenged on it. His Tax returns would show who he's given money to and how much. Trump has claimed he doesn't have business dealings with Russia. His tax returns would show us. People have claimed Trump is nowhere near as much as he claims he's worth. His tax returns would tell us. Trump has previously claimed that he's given money when in fact it was his foundation giving the money which wasn't his. His tax returns would tell us. A lot of the issues with Trump would be cleared up. He's obviously hiding them for a reason. That reason has nothing to do with audits.

 

Trump has been agreeing with Hillary a lot.

 

Why would he bring stop and frisk back?

 

Nice. Now Hillary is implying all white people are racist

 

Donald reaching waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back with the super predator thing. That won't sway any neutral or Hillary voters though.

 

Why is he still on Stop and Frisk. It's unconstitutional and conservatives hate it.

 

Trump is wasting time trying to get minority votes. He needs to rally college educated white men.

 

He just got b**** slapped. No pun intended.

 

I think Trump has actually studied a few things but not enough to actually have a grasp of any of it, and so he ends up rambling trying to throw out the stuff he studied and his advisors told him he should know. Sadly since he doesn't really grasp the issues all he can do is ramble.

He was supposed to be the entertainer of the two, and yet his rambling is far more boring than anything else in the debate. Though Hillary's law and order canned comment did give him a run for his money.