Donald Trump Thursday offered some advice for Lester Holt, who will moderate Monday's presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton: Do not Be Candy Crowley.
The Republican presidential candidate suggested that "NBC Nightly News" anchor be a moderator, not a fact-checker, a recommendation that comes after NBC Matt Lauer faced intense criticism earlier this month after Trump's claim that he did not support the war in Iraq go unchecked.
"Well, I think he must be a moderator," Trump told the "Fox and Friends" Holt during a telephone call Thursday morning. "I mean, you discuss any and if she makes a mistake, or I make a mistake, I will, you know, we will take each other on. But I certainly do not think you want Candy Crowley again."
Donald Trump Thursday offered some advice for Lester Holt, who will moderate Monday's presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton: Do not Be Candy Crowley.
The Republican presidential candidate suggested that "NBC Nightly News" anchor be a moderator, not a fact-checker, a recommendation that comes after NBC Matt Lauer faced intense criticism earlier this month after Trump's claim that he did not support the war in Iraq go unchecked.
"Well, I think he must be a moderator," Trump told the "Fox and Friends" Holt during a telephone call Thursday morning. "I mean, you discuss any and if she makes a mistake, or I make a mistake, I will, you know, we will take each other on. But I certainly do not think you want Candy Crowley again."
Crowley, who moderated a 2012 debate at Hofstra University, where Trump and Clinton will square off Monday tried to actually control then-GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who said it took President Obama 14 days to call the attack in Benghazi, Libya a "terrorist act ".
"And she turned out to be wrong. I really do not think you want it," said Trump. "It was a very decisive moment in the debate. And it really threw out the debate and it was unfair. So I do not think you want it. No, I think you have to have someone who's just -. Let them argue it out "
Police Fact later rated Romney criticism "half true," noting that Obama said "terrorist act" immediately after the attacks, but the administration did not speak "consistently in the following days."
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