GOP Nominee Doesn’t Want Moderator Lester Holt Calling Out His Lies
Donald Trump’s campaign is terrified that moderator Lester Holt will call out the GOP nominee’s inevitable lies during Monday’s debate.Â
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN on Sunday that it isn’t the job of the media — or of debate moderators — to fact-check candidates:Â
Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich also pre-emptively discouraged any fact-checking by Holt:
The statements by Conway and Gingrich appeared to be a continuation of Trump’s strategy of “working the referee” to rig the debate in his favor:Â
Sadly, the strategy may be working, as the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, Janet Brown, effectively agreed with the Trump camp on Sunday: Â