text:  had done, it turns out, the brilliant thing of having just accepted. Some people like me were kind of skeptical of that. We were like, maybe he should have fought back about the crowd. There's no crowd. Maybe he should have fought back about the mics. But Trump recognized that the minute he did that, then Biden would likely pull out and cite Trump's negotiation as a rationale for not doing the debate. So instead, he just accepted. Because the question you have to be asking yourself after this is they all knew behind closed doors this man he's seen now. They all knew it. And then they put him out there anyway.