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POTUS Debate TV Review: Biden Shows His Age While Trump Tosses Out One Whopper After Another With No Fact-Checking From CNN Moderators


The much anticipated live match-up between two men who clearly hate each other was a disaster for the incumbent

From muted microphones, a palatable distain the two men have for each other, salvos of performance enhancing drugs, and two moderators with the most thankless job in America for at least 90-minutes tonight, the first of two scheduled face-offs for 2020 vets Biden and Trump was a risky move before anyone stepped on the stage. Whoever wins this election, branding the Hell out of the debate, the simulcast of the primetime event on ABC, NBC, CBS, C-Span, PBS, MSNBC, NewsNation and even Fox News may deliver the Mark Thompson-run cable newser its largest domestic viewership ever. Literally offered an opportunity on Trump’s boost towards the end of the debate that he would free the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich from Putin’s prisons if elected, Biden acted as if his foe never even implied he was holding an American’s life in his hands for political gain.

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