Trump on the debate

Former President Donald Trump knows he overdid it in his first debate with Joe Biden back in September 2020. In a recent conversation at Mar-a-Lago, I said to Trump, “A lot of people thought in the first debate with Biden that you were somewhat overamped, that you just went after him too much—” “That I interrupted him,” said Trump. “Yeah, I think—” “Do you agree with that?” “Mmm huh,” Trump answered. Then, after a short pause, he defended the interruptions before conceding that yes, there were too many: “He lies so much,” Trump said. “He’s going on — everything he says is a lie. So I would call him because calling him out two minutes later is very tough because, you know, it’s a lie, it’s a lie, everything is a lie. I’ve never seen anything like it. So when I would interrupt, it looked like — I agree, though. The second debate I handled it much differently and got very good marks.”