Trump advisor gets testy with Fox News host over infanticide false claims and debate mics
Donald Trump’s campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski grew testy with Fox News’ anchor Shannon Bream on Sunday when he was questioned about the dispute over mics in the upcoming presidential debate and was corrected over his false claims about infanticide.
Following much back and forth, Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump have both finally agreed to a September 10 debate.
On Saturday, the Democratic candidate publicly called for Trump to agree that the mics be kept on at all times throughout the event.
“Donald Trump is surrendering to his advisors who won’t allow him to debate with a live microphone,” Harris said in a tweet on Saturday. “If his own team doesn’t have confidence in him, the American people definitely can’t. We are running for President of the United States. Let’s debate in a transparent way—with the microphones on the whole time.”
According to ABC News, Trump’s campaign has agreed to the following rules: no audience members; no opening statements; two minute closing statements; no props or pre written notes on stage; candidate microphones will be live only for the candidate whose turn it is to speak, and muted when time belongs to another candidate, and candidates will not be able to ask questions of each other. Harris’ team has not yet agreed to the rules, the outlet reported.
On Fox News Sunday, Lewandowski hit out at Harris, saying that the parameters of the debate had been agreed back when President Joe Biden was still the Democratic party’s nominee – and that Harris, as the VP pick, was part of that.
Lewandowski said she knew of the debate rules ahead of time because they are the same for the vice presidential debate.
“After she has been coronated to be the presidential nominee for the Democrats, what