ABC News anchor Linsey Davis, who co-moderated the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, has admitted there was a motivation driving the decision to fact-check Donald Trump.
In a new interview, Davis confirmed that she and co-moderator David Muir fact-checked Trump because of concerns involving President Joe Biden’s performance at the June 27 debate. It was that debate, of course, that sent concerns about Biden’s cognitive decline into the stratosphere. And those concerns apparently motivated Democratic Party leaders to force Biden to step down as their party’s presidential candidate. Davis notably used passive language in her remarks. “People were concerned” — but who, exactly? “Statements were allowed” — but wasn’t it a debate between Biden and Trump in which both candidates made statements for more than an hour?
In the debate this time, Davis was responsible for a memorable — and controversial — fact check.
While the candidates were discussing abortion, Trump alluded to the fact that some states — seven states, in fact, including Washington, D.C. — have zero legal restrictions on abortion. Trump even hinted at Minnesota’s extreme abortion policies, using his classic Trumpian vernacular, and referred to Ralph Northam’s horrifying comments about so-called post-birth abortions.
It’s all true. And yet Davis chose to fact-check Trump.
“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” she interjected.
Technically, it’s true. Killing a baby after birth is murder, and murder is illegal. But Democrats like Harris refuse to state whether they support any restrictions on abortion. At the debate, Harris was asked whether she supports restrictions on abortion, but she dodged the question completely.
The question, then, is this: If a person doesn’t support any abortion restrictions, does she believe abortion should be legal under any and every circumstance and at every gestational age?
The problem with Davis’ fact-check is not only that it provided false cover for Harris and Democrats, but that Muir and Davis fact-checked Trump only. Harris spewed numerous falsehoods and lies, but most viewers did not know this because the moderators chose not to call her out.
The one-sided fact-checking, the moderators’ repeated interrupting of Trump, and the framing of many questions led to accusations that ABC was biased against Trump.
Davis’ comments to the L.A. Times seem to confirm that ABC sought to ensure through editorialized fact-checks — which themselves were not subjected to live scrutiny — that the Democrat on stage did not have another disastrous debate performance.
To that point, Davis — who is a part of the same sorority as Harris — acknowledged that she is aware of bias accusations. However, she ignores them.
Reminder; wealthy liberals in Martha’s Vineyard shipped away 50 illegals in two days. Asking a vice president why she hasn’t done the president’s job, when you were fully the president and didn’t do the president’s job???
They claimed they did not have the resources to keep them. This same class of people wants an economically struggling central Ohio town to take 20,000 with open arms. Endorsements by Bush-era crooks keep flooding in, and Democrats keep welcoming them with open arms.
Clown Show: BREAKING: These clowns find a way to blame Trump for every decision they make… like they weren’t power when they made them. White House hits back, blames Trump for Afghanistan withdrawal chaos after Republicans release damning report targeting Biden. The administration says Trump struck a deal that released 5,000 Taliban fighters and “ordered a rushed exit by Christmas 2020, leaving Biden with a flawed deal that could only end America’s longest war.”
Kamala all drunk ass again:
John Kirdby says, “The Trump administration’s deal released 5,000 Taliban fighters—5,000 fighters—and now Republicans want to rewrite history?” John Kirby says, “Partisan rancor is clouding the facts: Trump ordered a rushed exit by Christmas 2020, leaving Biden with a flawed deal that could only end America’s longest war.” John Kirby says, “Republicans’ report ignores the brutal reality: The Afghan military collapsed, and Bagram Air Base wasn’t the magic solution they pretend it was.”
Wait, so the people who rolled back all if Trump’s policies and wrote 100+ EOs on Day One MAGICALLY decided to follow this one thing left behind of Trump? You have to be an absolute brainwashed lemming to believe anything Kirby (and the lamestream media) says about it being on Trump.