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   The Fix is in!  It's a big conspiracy!   
      
      
   Poor Trump is the victim!  Send him all your money.   
   ABC has denied that Vice President Kamala Harris was provided with any   
   questions ahead of Tuesday’s debate, shooting down one of the talking   
   points that right-wingers—including former President Donald Trump—tried to   
   use to explain the former president’s much-criticized debate performance.   
      
   “Absolutely not,” an ABC News spokesperson told the Daily Beast. “Harris   
   was not given any questions before the debate.”   
      
   The network’s debate rules stated that “no topics or questions will be   
   shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.”   
      
   The spokesperson also said no aides were in contact with moderators David   
   Muir and Linsey Davis. Trump aides have attacked the moderators as “agents   
   of the Harris campaign” following their efforts, which have been almost   
   universally lauded.   
      
       Debate Loser Trump Says ABC News Should Fire Entire Staff   
       ‘LIGHTWEIGHT’   
       Sean Craig   
       TV showing a spilt screen of Trump and Harris during the debate   
      
   Trump tried to lay the groundwork for potential debate shenanigans ahead of   
   the debate that would excuse his performance, speculating on both Truth   
   Social and to Sean Hannity that ABC panelist Donna Brazile—who famously   
   tipped off Hillary Clinton about questions ahead of CNN events in   
   2016—would share questions with Harris. It came as Trump has repeatedly   
   attacked the network—which he is currently suing—as biased.   
      
   “Will panelist Donna Brazil [sic] give the questions to the Marxist   
   Candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton?” Trump wrote.   
      
   But the idea that questions were indeed handed over in advance got its   
   first dose of oxygen was on Wednesday, when Trump told Fox & Friends that   
   he felt Harris was “awfully familiar” with the questions as he debated her.   
      
   It was further amplified on Thursday by Leading Report, a website that has   
   repeatedly shared misinformation on everything from politicians to   
   networks. It claimed on X that an ABC whistleblower would “allegedly”   
   release an affidavit that said the Harris campaign was given sample   
   questions in advance and that Harris was given “assurances” that only Trump   
   would be fact-checked during Tuesday”s debate. (A source familiar with the   
   matter dismissed the purported “assurances” claim as untrue.)   
      
   The website has recently claimed, among other things, that CNN would add a   
   1-2 minute delay to its June 27 debate (it did not); and that World   
   Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab had been “allegedly” hospitalized in   
   April (he was not).   
      
   It seemed to have picked up the claim about the questions from an X account   
   called “Black Insurrectionist.” The account tweeted on Thursday that they   
   would release the affidavit “before the weekend is out.” It offered no   
   proof to back up the claim.   
   Donald Trump, left, and Kamala Harris at ABC debate.   
      
   Donald Trump, left, and Kamala Harris at ABC debate.   
   Win McNamee/Getty Images   
      
   Still, billionaire-turned-X-scribe Bill Ackman boosted the Leading Report   
   post to his 1.4 million followers. “If this turns out to be true, this is a   
   serious breach of journalistic ethics and a death blow to @ABCNetwork   
   reputation,” he wrote.   
      
   Trump has repeatedly labeled the debate unfair and has claimed he was   
   battling “THREE ON ONE” throughout the more than 90-minute telecast—all as   
   he claimed he delivered his best debate performance yet. He wrote early   
   Thursday the network should “fire everybody” and claimed later in the day   
   he would not do another debate with Harris.   
      
   The Harris campaign responded by calling him a chicken.   
      
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