The first Trump-Biden debate was a microcosm of how broken American capitalism is - Business Insider

But even those strongly worded criticisms don't get to what was so outrageous about the occasion: One of the participants, the incumbent President Donald Trump, simply wouldn't follow the rules. .

At one point, moderator Chris Wallace said he was "appealing" to Trump to allow former Vice President Joe Biden to speak with fewer interruptions.

When Trump protested, Wallace said, "Well, frankly you've been doing more interrupting." .

Later, after Trump continued to speak during Biden's allotted two-minute response time, Wallace noted that Trump's staff had agreed that he wouldn't do exactly that, and asked, "Why don't you observe what your campaign agreed to as a ground rule?".

While technically wrong for a secretary of state to house emails on a private server, many members of the Trump White House have been reported to do exactly the same thing, with no kind of similar uproar attached?

We now know, thanks to last weekend's New York Times report on Trump's tax records, that the aftermath of the Great Recession also saw The Trump Organization rack up massive losses and adopt aggressive accounting practices

Would Trump have been a white-collar case pursued by the erstwhile "chickens--- club" currently helmed by Attorney General William Barr