20-dollar proceeds directly to president biden. by helping democrats launder doug burgum donations directly into his opponents pocket, doug burgum made the republican debate stage. this is the mad, mad world of republican debates. and yes. it is hard to see any legitimacy in this process. and that is before you even get to the biggest problem of all for this debate, the absence of the party front runner. by all accounts, the rnc and the host, fox news, have been begging trump to participate in this debate, but not only has trump refused to show up, he s also refused to meet the debate criteria. trump has said firmly, he will not sign the parties loyalty proud to support whoever is the nominee in november. what does it say about the state of this race that trump is slamming his nose at both his party and the television channel that helped make him president? we re going to have more on that with brian stilled her, coming up next. coming up next
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republican primary debate of this presidential campaign gets underway in malarkey tomorrow night, the front runner will be missing from the debate stage. which is sort of where. after all, fox news is hosting the debate and four months fox news has been on a campaign to convince donald trump to attend this marquee event. remember that fox network executives wined and dined mr. trump at a private dinner earlier this month, on the very same not he was indicted for a second time by the special counsel. all to no avail. instead, the former president apparently taped an interview with tucker carlson, one that will stream on carlson s twitter program, yes, his ex program. it is hard for me to say that still, on the night of the debate. that is the same tucker carlson who once called trump a demonic force, a destroyer, in private text to his former staff at fox
i do, actually. what do you think it is? is it debating chris christie? is it confronting mike pence, the man who understood his plot to overturn the election? what do you think strikes for in his heart? i think it is youth, vitality, the energy of some of these other candidates that he will have to face. look, there will be another debate in september. that will also be a fox debate. trump also said he s not going to show up that one. there is going to be these debates all fall and all winter with candidates who are younger, seem to have more energy, seem to be holding or campaign events there doing this out of desperation because they re not pulling well, yes, but donald trump, continually faced with his age, his mortality, the reality of his presidency being in the past. i wonder if that s what he fear is we both know he s going to watch every minute of the debate tomorrow night. he s going to live truth it s and that will be repurposed on x, presumably. yes. who c
there is a race to come in. if you want to be able to tell a judge at sentencing, i accepted responsibility. this is how i helped. it helps to be the first in, not the 17th in. because you really want to say, you know, i broke the logjam. i did. this yes, i did these wrong things, but here s what i did right, to make it right. and putting that off is, i mean, all sorts of things that can happen down the road. for instance, if you want to give information about donald trump, well, what if he wins the presidency? he s gonna be out of the georgia case, but you know what? you re not gonna be out of the georgia case. because that case stays, regardless of whether he or an ally becomes president. so, if you re thinking about your window of when you are most valuable to the government, it could be now. the time is nigh. there are so much more to talk about with trump and his many,