How to Debate Someone Who Lies

This article by Richard A. Friedman is an advise piece by him to the Democrat Presidential Candidate Mr. Biden. Trump has time and again proved to be a liar and a person who doesn't play by the rules. Friedman advises Biden to not waste his time fact-checking Trump during the debate. He says that otherwise it might cause Biden to cede control of the debate. He asks Biden to use weapons which put Trump in a defensive position during the upcoming debate and in the process prove to the public that the "president is a dishonest narrator".

As the first weapon Richard asks Biden to use humour and ridicule and supports it by giving an example where protesters dressed as clowns confronted a march for "white power" by throwing "flour" making white nationalists look ridiculous and avoided a violent confrontation. In the next few paragraphs the author examines the reason why Trump lies.

The author finishes by saying

Mr. Biden will have another advantage during the debate: President Trump will not have a live audience to excite him and satisfy his insatiable need for approval and attention, which means he will be even more vulnerable to a takedown.