Trump Broke Debate Rules: He is so weak & stupid, he needed a "cheat sheet" -

[kpete]

Donald Trump consulted with his campaign manager during the first commercial break at Thursday night's Republican debate, violating ground rules from Fox News stating that candidates would not be allowed to have contact with their campaigns, rival campaign sources told CNNMoney.

Thursday night's debate in Detroit marked a new extreme, however, as Lewandowski went directly onto the stage to meet with Trump during the commercial break. As in previous debates, Fox News had explicitly informed the campaigns that candidates were not allowed to communicate with their campaign staff during commercial breaks, the sources said.

When Lewandowski was asked by Fox News staff to leave the stage, he refused to do so, according to a source at Fox News.

Lewandowski and Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks did not respond to requests for comment.

Unable to get Lewandowski off the stage, Fox News representatives informed the other three campaigns that, because the Trump campaign had broken the rules, they too could consult with their candidates. Representatives from the Ted Cruz and John Kasich campaigns immediately made the trek to the backstage wings, while a senior adviser to Marco Rubio did so later.


http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/05/media/donald-trump-fox-debate-rules/index.html

[Faux pas]

1. Cheating cheater

from cheaterville.

[Nictuku]

4. He got away with it

That is what is so scary. He just bulldozes over everyone. Just think what he would do to the rule of law, the rule that binds us as a civilized society. Scary stuff.

[Faux pas]

5. They're ALL

scary!

[ladjf]

2. You left out ignorant and arrogant. nt

[exboyfil]

3. Why didn't they excuse Trump at that point

I would have security remove him and his campaign staff. I definitely would have notified the viewing audience.

[Sherman A1]

10. Precisely

They should have made a public announcement and cut off his microphone.

[3catwoman3]

11. "Get him outta here!"

"Get him out!"

[21st Century Poet]

6. The rule is silly.

It was rude of Trump and his campaign aide to break the rule, and especially so blatantly, but I have to say that the rule is silly and pointless. This is not a school examination. Presidents always have consultants and aides at hand to help them make the best decisions so why wouldn't presidential candidates have the same thing?

Do Democratic Party debates also have this rule?

[fullautohotdog]

9. "This is not a school examination."

It's far more important. If they can't prep for a 2-hour fluff debate without hand-holding, how the hell can they prep for calls with Putin over his incursion into a former Warsaw Pact nation seeking NATO admission? Or the Chinese over a move into the South China Sea?

If you can't handle a debate like this, you have no business being in the White House.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. There are rules?

These debates are like shit flinging fights in the monkey cage. I see no evidence of rules

[HuckleB]

8. Trump's not just in a state of arrested development.

He's devolving before our eyes, becoming more and more childlike in his BS.