If True, the ABC News Presidential Debate Could Be Rocked by Explosive Scandal

[PeteS in CA]

If True, the ABC News Presidential Debate Could Be Rocked by Explosive Scandal

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/09/12/if-true-the-abc-news-presidential-debate-could-be-rocked-by-explosive-scandal-n4932479

Anyone who watched the presidential debate hosted by ABC News on Tuesday knows that the moderators were biased and repeatedly fact-checked Trump while letting Kamala Harris's lies go unchallenged. We kind of expected that to happen, as the bias and conflicts of interests of the moderators and the network as a whole were well established.

However, there are reports now that an ABC News whistleblower is about to come forward with evidence that Kamala was given sample questions before the debate.
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"I have just signed a non-disclosure agreement with the attorney of the whistleblower," the post claims. "The affidavit states how the Harris campaign was given sample question which were essentially the same questions that were given during the debate and separate assurances of fact checking Donald Trump and that she would NOT be fact checked. Accordingly, the affidavit states several other factors that were built into the debate to give Kamala a significant advantage."

This is annoymorously sourced and has to be considered rumor-grade, possibly false. Once/If the affidavit is released, it can be investigated, and if true ... Career-Shattering Kaboom? ... Network-Shattering Kaboom? ... Trump-Deserved-It Fizzle?

[Sighlass]

PJ Media is usually a fairly reliable source... but if their sources are only Twitter second-hand sources... not so much.

[catfish1957]

Think about it.  If Kamel-uh knowingly took the information, and used it for her benefit.  Is she subject to the same criminality of election tampering as ABC?

[Smokin Joe]

TO anyone with eyes, it was like watching a High School basketball game where the Refs all graduated from (the other) one of the schools. You know how the plays, fouls etc. are going to be called before the first jump ball...
ABC did not disappoint in that respect, and one 'team' (Kamala and the moderators) got all the free throws, and none of the fouls, just as expected.

While not a surprise, except for the most naive (who might even go so far as to deny that was the case), those on the other side of things could blatantly see the discrepancy. As a great-grandfather, I know the snarky disrespect in her facial expressions--something well practiced, because it has been for decades, the only answer she has had to challenges to her veracity or intelligence except for that annoying cackle she was doubtlessly told to avoid. I also think she was getting signals from off stage, by or behind the camras, but can't prove it.

[libertybele]

Think about it.  If Kamel-uh knowingly took the information, and used it for her benefit.  Is she subject to the same criminality of election tampering as ABC?

Perhaps, but as a DEM and a black female presidential candidate she will never be held accountable.

[catfish1957]

I hope the whistleblower has taken precautions to protect his/her safety

We all know how the dim play book works, and Hilary is probably just itching to increase her body count.

[catfish1957]

Not only bump, but share with others. 

Seeing Muir in an orange jump suit, will make '24 worth it.

[ScottinVA]

And the whistleblower will promptly make those accusations public Nov. 6.

[libertybele]

Could be, but it won't be.  One set of rules for the DEMS (or actually no rules) and a set of rules for the GOP.

When is the last time you can recall a DEM being held accountable???

[verga]

Any one that watched the debate realized this.

[mystery-ak]

Sure..whatever you say............../s

Kamala Harris did not receive debate questions in advance, ABC claims: ‘Absolutely not’
By Emily Crane   
Published Sep. 13, 2024, 8:34 a.m. ET


ABC has denied Vice President Kamala Harris was given advance notice of questions ahead of her debate showdown with former President Donald Trump.

“Absolutely not,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement to The Daily Beast.

“Harris was not given any questions before the debate.”

None of Harris’ aides were in contact with debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, ahead of Tuesday night’s face-off in Philadelphia either, the network added.

The point-blank denial comes after Trump — who decried the debate as “unfair” and “rigged” — floated the idea that Harris had been given a head’s up on what questions to expect.

more
https://nypost.com/2024/09/13/us-news/kamala-harris-did-not-receive-debate-questions-in-advance-abc-claims-absolutely-not/

[Bigun]

Maybe someone should ask ABC News if the Harris campaign gave THEM the questions.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Maybe someone should ask ABC News if the Harris campaign gave THEM the questions.

 .    @Bigun

[mystery-ak]

Linsey Davis Reveals How She, David Muir and ABC News Schemed to Protect Kamala Harris by Ambushing President Trump With ‘Fact Checks’ After He Crushed Biden in Debate
by Kristinn Taylor Sep. 13, 2024 8:45 am

ABC News anchor Linsey Davis revealed in a post-debate Los Angeles Times puff-piece profile how she, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC producers schemed to ambush President Trump with ‘fact checks’ at Tuesday night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia with Kamala Harris after watching Trump crush and knock Joe Biden out of the race in their June debate.

The fact checking at the debate was one-sided, with Trump being interrupted by Muir and Davis several times with ‘fact checks’ while Harris was not ‘fact checked’ once.

Going into the debate, there was concern about Harris’ friendship with a Disney executive who oversees the ABC News division (NY Post excerpt):

    Dana Walden, a senior Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC News, is one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “extraordinary friends,” according to a report in the New York Times.

    Walden and Harris have known each other since 1994, while their husbands, Matt Walden and Doug Emhoff, have known each other since the 1980s.

    Dana Walden has donated to dozens of Democrats and contributed to Harris’ political campaigns since at least 2003, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco.

    She went on to donate to her subsequent campaigns for California attorney general and US Senate, as well as her 2020 White House bid.

    Harris even credited Dana and Matt for her marriage at a fundraiser in April 2022, which was held at Walden’s home in Los Angeles.

    ABC told the New York Times that Walden, who is Disney’s highest-ranking television executive, does not weigh in on editorial decisions.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/linsey-davis-reveals-how-she-david-muir-abc/

[Cyber Liberty]

Sure..whatever you say............../s

Kamala Harris did not receive debate questions in advance, ABC claims: ‘Absolutely not’
By Emily Crane   
Published Sep. 13, 2024, 8:34 a.m. ET

ABC is lying through their teeth.  See the story the post above this one.

[verga]

ABC is lying through their teeth.  See the story the post above this one.

Of course they are, they lost all pretense of integrity years ago.

[mystery-ak]

Then there is this...

September 13, 2024
There’s allegedly an affidavit claiming ABC gave Kamala the questions before the debate
By Andrea Widburg

One of the things that was obvious during the debate was that Kamala came in with a lot of memorized material. Those who like her were impressed by how well-prepared she was. Those who don’t like her noted that she had to memorize everything because she is incapable of answering substantive questions on the fly—and that her memorized answers were platitudes, canned phrases, and blatant lies. What didn’t occur to those of us who dislike Kamala was that the memorized lines invariably went right to the heart of the questions. Weird, huh?

That perfect alignment of prepared material and questions could, of course, have come about because it was fairly obvious what the moderators would ask. After all, we knew that they would frame the questions to support Kamala and hurt Trump. However, we believed that, after the scandal of Donna Brazile giving Hillary the debate questions in 2016, there was no way that the Democrats would try that cheat again.

It turns out that we might have been a bit naïve.

An X poster named “Black Insurrectionist” (aka @DocNetyoutube) claims to possess an affidavit from an ABC employee exposing ABC for having given Kamala the questions in advance and promising her that the moderators would never attack her but, instead, that they would only attack Trump:

I will be releasing an affidavit from an ABC whistleblower regarding the debate. I have just signed a non-disclosure agreement with the attorney of the whistleblower. The affidavit states how the Harris campaign was given sample question which were essentially the same questions that were given during the debate and separate assurances of fact checking Donald Trump and that she would NOT be fact checked. Accordingly, the affidavit states several other factors that were built into the debate to give Kamala a significant advantage. I have seen and read the affidavit and after the attorney blacks out the name of the whistleblower and other information that could dox the whistleblower, I will release the full affidavit.  I will be releasing the affidavit before the weekend is out.

In a later exchange, Black Insurrectionist implied that the same whistleblower wrote that Kamala’s campaign actually helped draft the questions:

more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/there_s_allegedly_an_affidavit_claiming_abc_gave_kamala_the_questions_before_the_debate.html

[rangerrebew]

September 13, 2024
There’s allegedly an affidavit claiming ABC gave Kamala the questions before the debate
By Andrea Widburg

One of the things that was obvious during the debate was that Kamala came in with a lot of memorized material. Those who like her were impressed by how well-prepared she was. Those who don’t like her noted that she had to memorize everything because she is incapable of answering substantive questions on the fly—and that her memorized answers were platitudes, canned phrases, and blatant lies. What didn’t occur to those of us who dislike Kamala was that the memorized lines invariably went right to the heart of the questions. Weird, huh?

That perfect alignment of prepared material and questions could, of course, have come about because it was fairly obvious what the moderators would ask. After all, we knew that they would frame the questions to support Kamala and hurt Trump. However, we believed that, after the scandal of Donna Brazile giving Hillary the debate questions in 2016, there was no way that the Democrats would try that cheat again.

It turns out that we might have been a bit naïve.

An X poster named “Black Insurrectionist” (aka @DocNetyoutube) claims to possess an affidavit from an ABC employee exposing ABC for having given Kamala the questions in advance and promising her that the moderators would never attack her but, instead, that they would only attack Trump:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/there_s_allegedly_an_affidavit_claiming_abc_gave_kamala_the_questions_before_the_debate.html

[mystery-ak]

topics merged

[catfish1957]

Okay...

Whistleblower.....  contact Cruz and Hawley for protection, and get your statment on record on the Hill ASAP.
The longer they wait, the less credible the claim will become.

Then.....   let the MSM cover it up.  And honestly, I'd bet there are some competitors at NBC and CBS who wouldn't mind seeing their competiton at the least get a black eye, and at worst have some of the perps face some legal action.

If this goes unchecked, Election interferrence and tampering will become not only acceptable, but the norm.

[mystery-ak]

ABC's Linsey Davis admits fact-checking of Trump was because CNN let his statements 'hang' at first debate
ABC moderators fact-checked Trump five times, Harris zero times during debate
Gabriel Hays By Gabriel Hays Fox News
3 min read| Published September 13, 2024 12:35pm EDT

ABC News anchor Linsey Davis admitted in a post-debate interview that her fact-checking of former President Trump was influenced by the earlier CNN debate that went disastrously for President Biden.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Davis said she wanted to address concerns that Trump's statements could be allowed to "hang" there unchallenged by his opponent or the moderators, as they were when Trump and Biden debated on CNN in June.

"Davis, wearing pink glasses while speaking to The Times over breakfast at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, said the decision to attempt to correct the candidates was in response to the June 27 CNN debate between Trump and President Biden, whose poor performance led to his exit from the race," the Times reported.

"People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators," Davis told the outlet on Wednesday morning.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/abcs-linsey-davis-admits-fact-checking-trump-because-cnn-statements-hang-first-debate

[catfish1957]

Perfect.

I hope she can keep her cool on Captial Hill trying to explain how that wasn't election debate tampering, and putting a finger on the scale.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if those two moderators did some jail time?

[Ghost Bear]

Does no one remember Donna Brazile sharing debate questions with the Hilliary! campaign? Brazile was fired from CNN when it came out, but suffered no other consequences.  In fact she was hired by Fox News (!) as a contributor barely 2 1/2 years later.

Likewise, if ABC shared the questions, they will find someone to take the blame, fire that person, and nothing else will come of it. Whoever takes the blame will continue working on campaigns, in media, and long term will suffer no consequences. That's how the machine works.

[catfish1957]

<bump>

[jafo2010]

Any intelligent person watching that debate KNOW there was coordination between ABC and the Harris group, and that it was CHOREOGRAPHED EXACTLY between them.  The most obvious was the whole race bullsh*t.  Her response did not match up with what Trump said.  It was all scripted in advance between the two parties.  All to create an affect, to heighten the perception that Trump is a racist.

The very last thing we need in the USA is a black woman who did NOT earn her way onto the slate to be the candidate as POTUS, regardless which party.  It was a coup, and Americans must use their brain on this election.  Democommies talking about protecting democracy could not be more hypocritical, or more communist in their actions.