- September 23, 2015: The non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates announces the debate schedule for the 2016 election. Donald Trump raises no objections.
- April 14, 2016: The NFL releases its schedule for the 2016 season. Donald Trump still raises no concerns about conflicts between the NFL schedule and the presidential debate schedule.
- May 3, 2016: Ted Cruz drops out of the race for the Republican nomination, all but clinching the nomination for Trump. Still not a peep out of Trump about the debates.
- July 29, 2016: Donald Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of trying to 'rig' the debates by scheduling two of them at times that conflict with the NFL schedule.
Now of course Trump is, as usual, full of shit (more on that later), but just for a moment, let's assume everything he's saying is 100% true. In that case, Trump is saying that Hillary Clinton successfully manipulated the scheduling of the debates to her advantage TEN MONTHS before Trump figured out there was a problem.
So he's basically admitting that she's ten times smarter than he is, right?
One other thing. When making his accusation --- as usual, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever --- Trump claimed that he received a letter from the NFL saying "This is ridiculous. Why are the debates against --".
Well, we know Trump is lying about this. How do we know? Because the NFL didn't even start planning its schedule until the 2015 regular season ended on January 3, 2016, more than 3 months after the debate schedule was announced. If conflicting with the debates was a problem for them, they could have scheduled around them.
Also, the NFL denied sending Trump any letter. So there's that, too.
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