Thread: The Second Presidential Debate

Originally Posted by Bookman

I only surfed in and out, but I didn't see Trump use the line I think he should have. Several times he could have said, "While the tapes of me speaking eleven years ago were being released, we also saw the release of Hillary saying she had held both public and private views. People, tonight you're hearing her public views...the ones she needs to say to get elected...but what she's not sharing is her private views. Those are the views that really matter. And we can see the results of her private views when we look at her record. As voters, you have to ignore what she says publically, knowing now that she admits to holding contradictory private views."

When she brought up the tax issue, I wanted him to say, 'I emailed them to you, did you make a mistake and bleach them?' LOL

Trump wanted to put Bill Clinton’s accusers in his family box. Debate officials said no.
By Robert Costa, Dan Balz and Philip Rucker October 10 at 3:48 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-was-thwarted/

ST. LOUIS — Donald Trump’s campaign sought to intimidate Hillary Clinton and embarrass her husband by seating women who have accused former president Bill Clinton of sexual abuse in the Trump family’s box at the presidential debate here Sunday night, according to four people involved in the discussions.

The campaign’s plan, which was closely held and unknown to several of Trump’s top aides, was thwarted just minutes before it could be executed when officials with the Commission on Presidential Debates intervened. The commission officials warned that, if the Trump campaign tried to seat the accusers in the elevated family box, security officers would remove the women, according to the people involved, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were confidential.

The gambit to give Bill Clinton’s accusers prime seats was devised by Trump campaign chief executive Stephen K. Bannon and Jared Kushner, the candidate’s son-in-law, and approved personally by Trump. The four women — three of whom have alleged Bill Clinton sexually assaulted or harassed them years ago — were to walk in the debate hall at the same time as the 42nd president and confront him in front of a national television audience.

“We were going to put the four women in the VIP box,” said former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who represents Trump in debate negotiations. “We had it all set. We wanted to have them shake hands with Bill, to see if Bill would shake hands with them.”...



...“The women were outraged,” Giuliani said. “They were in the holding room and ready to go. No one was pushing them. They volunteered. But I knew the minute we got pushback that we had gotten into their heads. [Hillary Clinton] was rattled. They were rattled.”

Originally Posted by Romans828

I'd call it a draw...

He did better than I expected - It was kinda creepy the way he stood behind her while she was answering questions from the audience - Just reinforces his "disrespectful to women" and bullying attitude

I love it when he said, if he was in charge, she'd be in jail.

She held her own, and stayed focused, but he obviously rattled her a couple of times as evidenced by her "forced smiles" whenever he struck a nerve.

From what I saw, the only time he was standing behind her is when she walked over to address the audience on his side of the stage - Trump just basically stayed by his podium.

Originally Posted by Romans828

Yes, but it was at least twice, maybe three times.

It's a two way street

Hillary is not innocent even in this.

I found this...

What Trump's, Clinton's body language at the debate revealed
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politi...body-language/

(CNN)Donald Trump paced and loomed behind Hillary Clinton during Sunday night's second presidential debate -- a decision possibly driven by stress and anxiety during the intensely bitter event, according to body language expert Janine Driver.

"He's decreasing stress by doing all that movement," Driver said of Trump's behavior on CNN's "New Day" on Monday.

But Driver also called Trump's movements a "pre-assault indicator."

"At some parts of watching last night, I was really getting nervous because she was in his space," she told CNN's Alisyn Camerota. "He's like a dog who's starting to get anxious and being backed into a corner."..,


...Driver also called the Democratic nominee's decision to stand in front of Trump while she was talking "strategic." She compared Clinton's movements to a schoolteacher who stands next to whispering children to make them stop talking...

"Did Trump interrupt at all when she was standing in front of him?" Driver said. "Not once."...