HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.—Plunging the future of the 2016 Presidential debates into doubt, Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday morning that he would not participate in the remaining two debates if Hillary Clinton is there.

Trump blasted the format of Monday night’s debate by claiming that the presence of Clinton was “specifically designed” to distract him from delivering his message to the American people.

“Every time I said something, she would say something back,” he said. “It was rigged.”

He also lambasted the “underhanded tactics” his opponent used during the debate. “She kept on bringing up things I said or did,” he added. “She is a very nasty person.”

Turning to CNN, Trump criticized the network’s use of a split screen showing both him and Clinton throughout the telecast. “It should have been just me,” he said. “That way people could have seen how really good my temperament is.”

The billionaire said that debate organizers had not yet responded to his ultimatum, but he warned that if he does not get assurances in writing that future debates will be “un-rigged, Hillary-wise,” he will not participate.

“I have said time and time again that I would only do these debates if I am treated fairly,” he added. “The only way I can be guaranteed of being treated fairly is if Hillary Clinton is not there.”

Well that is a further reason to vote for Hillary.

Trump interrupted every answer multiple times and insisted on having the last say on everything. He was guilty of very poor behaviour and managed to re-write his own history on almost every subject.

He managed to easily lose the debate and has now spat the dummy and gone off to have a sook accusing Hillary of what he had done himself.

Just a false story -
it should be deleted from Ozpolitic.


http://www.snopes.com/trump-threatens-to-skip-debates/


Origin:On 27 September 2016, social media users began sharing a claim that Republican nominee Donald Trump had threatened to skip the remaining presidential debates if Hillary Clinton attended was published as part of  The New Yorker's "Borowitz Report":

    Plunging the future of the 2016 Presidential debates into doubt, Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday morning that he would not participate in the remaining two debates if Hillary Clinton is there.

    Trump blasted the format of Monday night’s debate by claiming that the presence of Clinton was “specifically designed” to distract him from delivering his message to the American people.

This item was just a spoof, as "The Borowitz Report" is a well-known satire column penned by humorist Andy Borowitz, but some readers were fooled into thinking that the story was a real news piece.  One reason for the confusion may have been that Rudy Giuliani (a high-profile supporter of Trump's) indeed suggested that the GOP candidate should skip the next two presidential debates unless they were overseen by moderators operating under his proposed constraints:

You have to admit, he resonates with the electorate.

A choice between Hillary and Trump?

Well, one's a politician and the other is a businessman.

If he's got a shot at running what was once the powerhouse of the world, perhaps he may do better than a 'politician'.




If given the choice between the 'better of two weevils', I'd pick Trump simply because of that same reason.

He's the more likely to attempt to live up to his promises.