In a tweet on July 29, Donald Trump said, “As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games.”
Trump said that Clinton and her party “are trying to rig the debates” so that NFL games drain away viewers.
However, neither Clinton nor her party were involved in setting up the dates for the general-election debates, as they were during the primary debates. Instead, that task falls to a bipartisan commission that has no connection to either the campaigns or the parties. In fact, the debate dates were chosen seven months before the NFL schedule was even released, making scheduling conflicts almost unavoidable – not the work of one campaign or party.
We rate Trump’s statement Pants on Fire.
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