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    Trump Renews Unfounded Claim on Debate Mic

    by Robert Farley Dec 16, 2019 3 minutes

    President Donald Trump wrongly claimed the Commission on Presidential Debates was “forced to publicly apologize for modulating” his microphone in the first 2016 general election debate. The bipartisan commission did not apologize for any willful tampering, but acknowledged “there were issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall.”

    Trump’s wariness about the Commission on Presidential Debates, t, goes back to the first presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton, the commission was co-chaired by a former Clinton aide and a former Republican National Committee chairman.

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