Clinton campaign's @brianefallon: Tonight we'll likely see a subdued Trump, a "Kellyanne Conway creation." https://t.co/3UVhdxg2Nj
— New Day (@NewDay) September 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, on Monday said he expects to see a more subdued Donald Trump at Monday night’s presidential debate.
{mosads}”For all this talk of which Trump is going to show up tonight, I think we are pretty well convinced that we’re going to see Trump No. 2,” Fallon said on CNN’s “New Day.”
“Which is this Kellyanne Conway creation, a subdued Trump, a Trump that shows restraint, separated from his Twitter account for 90 minutes, try to come in and desperately try to seem presidential.”
Fallon said, though, that Trump needs to do more than just behave in a certain way on the debate stage.
He said Trump needs to show seriousness on policy by presenting details about what his plans are to protect the country and to “avoid all those lies he likes to retell.”
Still, Fallon said Trump has shown the public who he is during his presidential campaign, adding that the GOP nominee has proven he doesn’t have the temperament and fitness to serve in the White House.
“He’s erratic, he’s combustible. We can’t trust him with nuclear weapons,” Fallon said.
“He’s somebody that wants to walk away from alliances like NATO in Europe, he’s somebody that has insulted and demeaned Mexican-Americans, Muslim Americans, women, and so I think that is Donald Trump, that is his true self.”
But Fallon said he wouldn’t be surprised to find Conway and former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes have coached Trump “into submission to try to get through a 90-minute debate.”
“But that can’t be the standard,” Fallon said.
“The American people expect far more.”