The following report is by CNN (excerpts):
“I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th. Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place,” Biden said in a post on X.
Trump later told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, “The answer is yes, I will accept.”
Later Wednesday morning, both men said they had accepted an invitation from ABC to hold a second debate on September 10.
The news is the latest development in a quickly escalating tit-for-tat over debates between the two political rivals. Biden’s campaign earlier called on Trump to join him for two presidential debates hosted by news organizations and formally informed the Commission on Presidential Debates that the president will not participate in its previously scheduled fall debates. The former president quickly said he was on board with earlier debates and told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he would accept any moderator.
Biden only recently said that he was happy to debate Trump, though he was non-committal on the format of such a debate, telling radio host Howard Stern, “I’m happy to debate him.” In a social media video and a subsequent letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, Biden’s campaign laid out its proposed terms, including possible debate dates in June and September.
The video of Biden speaking directly to a camera released Wednesday morning was a more direct challenge.
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again,” Biden said.
“Well, make my day, pal, I’ll even do it twice. So let’s pick the dates, Donald – I hear you’re free on Wednesdays,” Biden continued, alluding to Trump’s court schedule. In the letter, Biden’s campaign acknowledged that the first debate would likely take place after Trump’s criminal hush-money trial has concluded.
In a post to Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump accepted the revised schedule: “I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September,” adding that he would “strongly recommend” more than the two debates proposed. A senior Trump adviser told CNN they are “ready to debate” Biden, and reviewing the terms but are eager for an onstage match-up.
Trump’s team also called for the candidates to participate in four total debates – twice the number requested by Biden. The Biden campaign sidestepped questions about that request on Wednesday.
“President Biden didn’t mince his words in the video,” Biden’s deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, adding, “He said two debates — one in June, one in September, before voters began casting their votes — no spectacle, respect for the rules.”
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
I am mentioning this because these reality show-drama debates have never come this early. The reason for this is because the media needs a distraction. Every year there are a litany of nonsense stories that proliferate the airways and headlines to divide and distract the masses from things that are actually important.
Acts 17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
We’ve covered many times before the collapse of the current world framework. The dollar is dying and the current order is currently undergoing a self-demolition so the new digitized monetary system, the Great Reset and 4th Industrial Revolution can be allowed to be implemented in the midst of the chaos. With us already in mid-May (man o’ man this year is just flying by), from what I’ve observed it appears the handlers are not going to allow for a too chaotic of a year, in relative terms that is. I think they are trying to make sure all their ducks are in order and nothing becomes too disjointed before the elections; as I personally believe that 2025 is shaping up to be ‘the year’ where the Ponzi system is finally rug pulled, but this is just my opinion.
Having said that, moving up the clown show debates a little earlier this year will help distract and divide this country even further, for an election that does not matter and that we have no say-so in. They give the mirage that you do but don’t. At this point in 2024 you either get it or you don’t. I’m not going to fret myself trying to convince you if you are of the contrary.
Mark 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? [24] And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. [25] And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. [26] And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. [27] No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
Jesse Ventura, a former Navy SEAL, Governor of Minnesota (running as an Independent, 1999-2003), a WWE wrestler and movie/TV star, has a really good way of summarizing the political banter, campaigns, and elections in the United States:
Politics in America is identical to pro wrestling.
In front of the crowd, in front of TV, they pretend they hate each other. They pretend like they are big adversaries and that’s the sell job they do to us, the citizens. Just like pro wrestling, my job was to go out and piss everybody off so bad they would pay their hard earned money to go out and see me get my butt kicked.
Well, the point is, we are all friends in the locker room. We all work together. It’s entertainment. We put on a show and this is no different. They are putting on a show, because behind the scenes, they are all friends. They go out to dinner together and cut their deals together. It’s a show. That’s what I believe.
I taught at Harvard in 2004. Do you know what one of my classes was? How Pro Wrestling Prepares You For Politics.
Ventura explained in an interview with Chuck Palahnuik
So, expect more of this in June and thereafter:
It’s all just one big giant Saturday Night Live skit, and members of the club are laughing their butts off all the way to the bank at the stupidity of the masses.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Here is a quote that is appropriate. Someone else already thought all thoughts like Jesse’s
From writer Gary Hopkins: “You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.” SO TRUE JESSE, AND GREAT ANALOGY!!
That’s a good quote.
Very wise and whip sharp quote. It’s all a facade and all their campaign promises are bogus.
When I was lost, I was a Trump supporting moron, I was one of his little cheerleaders. The Lord opened my eyes with a light chastening first of all thanks be to God and also thanks to Jacob.