Last week’s presidential debate had two monitors. One of them, Linsey Davis of ABC News, told the Los Angeles Times that their only job was to check the facts of former President Donald Trump and not Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to Breitbart News, Davis and co-moderator David Muir fact-checked Trump seven times, and often got it wrong. But they never fact-checked Harris, even when she used lies like the “very nice people” hoax in Charlottesville.
Davis told the Times that ABC had specifically chosen to go after Trump because they thought he deserved it after being able to get away with lying during the CNN debate against President Joe Biden in late June.
The New York Post said it:
“In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Davis said she wanted to address worries that Trump’s comments might be left alone by his opponent or the reporters, like they were when Trump and Biden talked on CNN in June. Davis said the decision to try to correct the candidates was in response to the June 27 CNN debate between Trump and President Biden, whose poor performance caused him to drop out of the race,” the outlet reported. “People were worried that comments could stand without being questioned by either Biden or the reporters at the time,” Davis told the news outlet on Wednesday morning.
Davis said the editors looked at what Harris had said in the past, saying, “Politicians tend to say the same things over and over again.” But they weren’t ready to check Harris’s repeated use of lies. Harris told the “very fine people” lie during the 2020 vice presidential debate with Mike Pence. Pence checked her facts live on stage.
The June debate was another time Biden lied, and CNN did not check his facts either. He used the “fine people hoax” and other lies.
