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Analysis | 5 takeaways from the dueling Trump and Biden town halls

The president fell into familiar traps, while the former vice president provided a little more clarity on court-packing.

Washington Post

“In the approximately 20 minutes before the town hall was turned over to audience questions, Guthrie thoroughly grilled him. As [t]rump repeated false claims about the coronavirus outbreak and equivocated on things like QAnon and accepting the election results, Guthrie peppered him with sharp questions, follow-ups and fact checks.

"When [t]rump claimed that a study showed 85 percent of people who wear masks still get the coronavirus, Guthrie noted he falsely characterized the study.

"When [t]rump defended his covid-19 response by citing another study that showed 2 million people could have died of the coronavirus, Guthrie rightly noted that model predicted that only if the government did precisely zero mitigation.

"When [t]rump declined to denounce QAnon because he said he didn’t know what it was about, Guthrie provided details about what it was about and invited him to do it, noting Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) has flatly denounced it as a baseless conspiracy theory. [t]rump instead offered that he liked that QAnon was against pedophilia.

"When Guthrie pressed [t]rump on his retweets this week of a bizarre conspiracy theory about Osama bin Laden’s death, [t]rump explained by saying he was just passing along information. (‘That was a retweet, I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves.’) Guthrie then provided the retort those tweets have long demanded: that he’s the *resident, not someone’s 'crazy uncle’ spouting off on Twitter, and that the information he promotes matters.”

Donald Trump: I won’t denounce the terrorist nazi cult known as Qanon which is literally the American version of ISIS but I’ll happily pretend that me retweeting insane racist conspiracy theories is just your wacky grandpa who doesn’t know how social media works