Rudy Giuliani thinks Donald Trump should skip the next debates

In Rudy Giuliani's opinion, Donald Trump's first presidential debate should be his last. Unless, that is, Trump could secure a promise that the next debate moderator would stick to being just that: a moderator. "If I were Donald Trump, I wouldn't participate in another debate unless I was promised the journalist would act like a journalist, and not an ignorant fact check," the former New York City mayor said Monday night after the debate, per a video from the spin room posted by Bloomberg.
Giuliani was particularly incensed by moderator Lester Holt's "interference" in the discussion about whether "stop and frisk," a program Trump advocated for, was "unconstitutional." "If journalism has ethics, Lester Holt acted unethically in interfering in an area of law he knows nothing about," Giuliani said, insisting Trump's characterization of the case "was correct" because although a circuit court judge ruled stop and frisk unconstitutional, a higher court didn't rule on the matter.
Trump, however, didn't seem to share Giuliani's critiques. The Hill reported Trump "praised Holt immediately after the debate."
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