Nobody fact checks Trump if they want to stay being a Republican.

This is bad. ABC just caused Trump's election defeat and that means he's
going to prison after all.

ABC�s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump

Calmly and firmly, Linsey Davis and David Muir pursued the kind of real-
time fact-checking missing from many previous debates.

ABC�s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump

Calmly and firmly, Linsey Davis and David Muir pursued the kind of real-
time fact-checking missing from many previous debates.

There were almost no moments of tension between the moderators and the
Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the ABC anchors
skipped several opportunities to follow up with her on tough topics like
the Biden administration�s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and Ms.
Harris�s shifting positions on fracking and the southern border.

But Mr. Trump delivered, by one count, more than two dozen falsehoods
over the course of the evening, while Ms. Harris�s factually questionable
remarks were more misleading than flagrantly untrue.
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That discrepancy did not stop Mr. Trump�s allies � even before the debate
was finished � from accusing ABC of bias.

Donald J. Trump Jr., in a social media post, referred to the moderators
as �hacks.� On Fox News, the partisan host Laura Ingraham declared that
�ABC�s goal tonight was to help Kamala Harris� and Sean Hannity called
ABC News �the biggest loser in the debate.�

Whether those attacks can stick is an open question. Mr. Muir is,
ratings-wise, the most popular TV news personality in the country. His
newscast, �World News Tonight,� reaches far more Americans than shows
hosted by partisan cable stars like Mr. Hannity and Rachel Maddow of
MSNBC.

He and Ms. Davis, who hosts the Sunday edition of �World News Tonight,�
have taken pains to present themselves as nonpartisan figures. Mr. Trump
even chose Mr. Muir to conduct his first major TV interview after taking
office in 2017.

In the buildup to Tuesday, Mr. Trump had assailed ABC News as �the worst�
and �the nastiest,� and brought up his pending lawsuit that claims one of
the network�s anchors, George Stephanopoulos, harmed his reputation. But
Mr. Trump and his campaign also accepted ABC�s ground rules for the
debate and were satisfied with the choice of moderators.

Onstage on Tuesday, the moderators� pushback seemed to compound Mr.
Trump�s frustrations with how the evening was unfolding. After the
broadcast ended, Mr. Trump himself touted a slogan that had quickly
picked up steam on the political right. �THREE ON ONE!� he wrote in a
post on Truth Social.

His ire seemed to augur a larger conflict between ABC News and Trump
supporters in the days ahead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/business/media/debate-moderators-
trump-harris.html