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* [[Volleying Insults]]:

** The 2016 Republican party debates generally devolved into this.

** The first 2020 presidential debate ended up like this, for the most part (with constant interruptions, not helped by the inability of the moderator, Chris Wallace, to maintain a semblance of order).

** The first 2020 presidential debate ended up like this, for the most part (with constant interruptions, not helped by the inability of the moderator, Chris Wallace, to maintain a semblance of order). In the ''second'' debate, a system had to be installed that let the moderator cut the microphone if one of them tried to speak out of turn.

* [[Weasel Words]]: In the strict sense of using ambiguous phrases, claims or appeals to vague and unverifiable sources. e.g. "[https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-people-saying-trump-tweet-000000450.html a lot of people are saying/many people have said]". He claims "[http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382378-trump-many-people-have-said-i-should-fire-muellermany people have told him]" he should fire Robert Mueller. His speech patterns are characteristically ''weaselly'' in the rhetorical sense of invoking ''an unsubstantiated mass of people who miraculously agree with your opinion''.

** He has also inverted this by [https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/28/trump-fake-news-media-238894 accusing the media of making up sources].