Verbatim from CNN’s Wednesday morning article hyping their big debate and on the Trump Campaign’s efforts to coax their Dear Leader into at least trying to act like an adult: “Sources close to the former president say that while Trump is aware of the gravity of Thursday’s debate and the importance of hammering a message, they acknowledged his propensity to veer into lengthy, off topic rants that leaves the possibility they may have fallout to manage come Friday morning.”

The reporting also details the convicted felon’s team are starting to come to terms with the idea that the lack of a live audience and automatic muting that they were pissed he got cornered into accepting might actually be helpful with getting him to stay “policy-based.” One “Trump ally” tells CNN “The moment Biden said to him ‘shut up man’ [during the 2020 debate], I knew we’d lose the election,” adding that the muted mics could ending up helping save Donald from himself.

The Orange Tyrant’s minions put the pedal to the metal over the last week on their contradictory Joe’s on drugs, the debate is rigged, it’ll be 3-on-1, he was actually pretty good against Paul Ryan in 2012, blah blah blah messaging after having learned the president was spending the week at Camp David prepping for the showdown, with CNN describing it as “a realization that one Trump adviser described as a turning point in their plans to try and raise the bar for how Biden may perform.”