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Trump Wants to Cancel All 2020 Presidential Debates Because He Thinks They’ll Be ‘Unfair’

According to the New York Times, Donald Trump is considering just skipping the presidential debates in 2020, no matter who the Democrats select as their nominee.

Trump says he doesn’t want to attend the debates because he distrusts the Commission on Presidential Debates, which oversees and plans the events.

More specifically, reported Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni, “less of a concern for Mr. Trump than who will emerge as the Democratic nominee is which media personality will be chosen as the debate moderator, according to people in contact with him.”

Trump has long despised mainstream media, referring to networks other than Fox News as “fake news” and “the enemy of the people,” and suggesting that he would like to make it easier to file libel suits against reporters.

During the presidential debates in 2016, Trump fought with the moderators on air, at one point demanding that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper stop taking questions from the audience to talk more about Hillary Clinton’s email server.

But let’s be honest. Trump doesn’t want to attend the debates because he would completely bomb them. Remember all the sniffing and slurring in the 2016 debates?

Twitter felt the same:

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