Trump vs Biden

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Blindsided by the torrent of lies emanating from Trump. Not surprised he struggled to maintain focus. The lack of moderation and fact checking by the adjudicators also played right into Trumps rapid fire BS strategy.

The moderators aren't there to fact check - that was Biden's responsibility to pull Trump up in his rebuttals but Biden just wasn't up to it.

If you watched the entire debate including the lead in from NBC with their 'terms of engagement' spiel it was stated that fact checking was to take place, which I assume was mainly thought necessary to prevent Trumps propensity for outrageous lying turning the event into a fictional political theatre.

As it turned out the fact checking occurred in the after debate postmortem which was of little help to Biden or the integrity of the 'debate's' content as it turned out. 

Also the time limited rebuttals allowed to Trump and especially Biden was insufficient to address the amount of disinformation from Trump, as I was alluding to.