Donald Trump Supporters in a Fury Over Lester Holt’s Debate Performance

“Pure liberal trash,” one Twitter user writes

Lester Holt First Presidential Debate 2016
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Media critics may have liked Lester Holt as moderator, but Donald Trump supporters are in a rage over the NBC newsman’s job at the first presidential debate on Monday.

Conservatives ripped Holt for failing to ask Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton about her email server use, as well as not pressing her on her answers about Mideast policy and her alleged failure to contain ISIS.

Many commentators suggested that Holt was mindful of the criticism that fellow NBC newsman Matt Lauer recently received for aggressively questioning Clinton during a town hall while seeming to lob softballs at Trump. Holt, these critics said, wanted to avoid the same treatment and ended up overcompensating.

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