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Judi Lynn

(160,684 posts)
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 05:51 PM Feb 2019

Author Stephen King offers $10,000 bounty for Trump to debate his border wall -- even on Fox News

Source: Raw Story

BOB BRIGHAM
16 FEB 2019 AT 16:48 ET

Bestselling author Stephen King on Saturday offered a $10,000 bounty for President Donald Trump to debate his border wall.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised a concrete wall across the entire southern border — that Mexico would fund. Mexico refused, which put Trump in a position of having broken his signature policy promise.

So Trump shut down the government — setting the record for the longest government shutdown — in an attempt to get the United States Congress to pay for his wall. That was also unsuccessful.

After Congress only allocated $1.37 billion for border fencing, Trump declared a national emergency in an attempt to take money Congress had allocated for other projects and use that to build his wall. His choice was widely panned by members of both political parties and lawsuits have already been filed.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/author-stephen-king-offers-10000-bounty-trump-debate-border-wall-even-fox-news/?utm_source=push_notifications

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Author Stephen King offers $10,000 bounty for Trump to debate his border wall -- even on Fox News (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2019 OP
Never debate on Fox News JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #1
Fox is the evil empire, but.. Evolve Dammit Feb 2019 #2
I would settle for a reporter to ask Trump Mr.Bill Feb 2019 #3
Great questions Evolve Dammit Feb 2019 #6
Oh I would love to hear Don MuseRider Feb 2019 #4
Stephen King rocks! nt raccoon Feb 2019 #5
He won't take the bet...rump can't defend any of his positions and he knows it... SWBTATTReg Feb 2019 #7
True ... a bully always folds when challenged Miigwech Feb 2019 #8
Not even for the Trump Foundation? Bob Loblaw Feb 2019 #11
yeah... we had this discussion with AOC about private citizens challenging elected officals to Takket Feb 2019 #9
So... Trump vs a wall? tinrobot Feb 2019 #10

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,384 posts)
1. Never debate on Fox News
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 06:16 PM
Feb 2019

The "moderators" (fair, balanced) will talk over anyone they disagree with. A liberal position will never be stated clearly without that sort of interference. It would be a pointless exercise. Even worse, if Mr King is polite at all. That would be seen as a weakness, meat for the dogs.

Evolve Dammit

(16,818 posts)
2. Fox is the evil empire, but..
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 06:32 PM
Feb 2019

Stephen King REALLY knows evil; inside and out. Trump will never agree, but I believe King would hand him his ass on a platter.

Mr.Bill

(24,375 posts)
3. I would settle for a reporter to ask Trump
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 06:33 PM
Feb 2019

where is this wall he is already building? And who are the contractors that he hired? Why is no one asking this?

MuseRider

(34,140 posts)
4. Oh I would love to hear Don
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 06:43 PM
Feb 2019

Winslow debate Trump. I read his books because Stephen King recommended him as a great storyteller and he is but he has also done a lot of things in his life that give him direct knowledge about this topic. I am in the middle of his trilogy about the cartels. This would be good watching even if you had to turn on Fox.

SWBTATTReg

(22,222 posts)
7. He won't take the bet...rump can't defend any of his positions and he knows it...
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 07:28 PM
Feb 2019

Mark Cuban challenged rump once...

In a series of tweets on Friday, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban challenged Donald Trump to an interview, offering to give $10 million to the charity of Trump’s choice if he could grill the Republican nominee on his policies for four hours. Sept 16, 2016 article

Bob Loblaw

(1,900 posts)
11. Not even for the Trump Foundation?
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 08:53 PM
Feb 2019

Isn't that his favorite "charity"? With that kind of money they could help at least three Corinthians.

Takket

(21,715 posts)
9. yeah... we had this discussion with AOC about private citizens challenging elected officals to
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 08:23 PM
Feb 2019

debates. Don't like this kind of thing.

What I would like is for someone in Congress to challenge drumpf to a debate on this.

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