This declare and lots of others had been rapidly fact-checked and debunked by ABC Information hosts and debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, a undeniable fact that clearly additional incensed Trump.
Virtually instantly after the talk completed, Trump reiterated the conspiracy a couple of “rigged” debate from ABC Information that he has been selling for the final week.
“I believed that was my greatest Debate, EVER, particularly because it was THREE ON ONE,” Trump wrote on Reality Social, the place he tried to defend his declare about migrants consuming pets by sharing hyperlinks to unsubstantiated rumors.
This line of assault was echoed by Trump’s greatest supporters. “Bizarre how the hack moderators at [ABC News] are solely ‘Truth checking’ Trump and permitting Kamala to lie nonstop,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X. “The Pretend Information is the enemy of the folks!”
“The moderators would possibly as nicely be on the DNC payroll,” Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah wrote on X. “That is ridiculous. That is the worst moderated debate in historical past.”
“Someone abort the moderation of this debate after which ship the journos to Gitmo,” wrote Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist, on X.
Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Level USA, known as the talk “a present trial the place the choose, jury, and executioner is ABC Information,” whereas Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman from Georgia, known as it “an absolute assault on Trump.”
Regardless of his bravado on-line, Trump seemed to be involved concerning the reception of the talk efficiency, as he went into the post-debate spin room himself. In between randomly shouting out polling numbers—”90%, 60%, 72%, 71% and 89%”—Trump as soon as once more claimed it was “my greatest debate ever.”
It’s an unsurprising response from a person who appears to be insulated from actuality by a cadre of sycophants inside the Republican Celebration and his marketing campaign group, and a military of kowtowing supporters on social media platforms.
On these platforms on Tuesday night time, his supporters echoed Trump’s complaints about ABC Information’ resolution to fact-check him in actual time and continued to assault and unfold conspiracies about Harris primarily based on her gender.
Lots of the feedback used deeply misogynistic and racist language to consult with Harris, calling into query her ethnicity and boosting the conspiracy that her success was predicated on sleeping with highly effective males.
“I hope he calls her a silly bitch to her face,” a member of a fringe pro-Trump message board wrote, whereas one other added: “I wager she had a variety of abortions.”
On Telegram, one member of a Proud Boys channel responded to Harris calling the group a “militia” throughout the debate by writing: “We live hire free on this whores head.”
