Apparently, Trump's mic quit working last night during a rally. He wandered around on stage for quite a while in silence. Here's just 16 minutes of it.
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A mic breaking for 20 mins and stopping a show just doesn't happen. Ever. There's never NOT another mic that could be plugged in and brought online within 30 seconds, even if it's a shitty one used as talk-back.
Something else happened but they're saying it was just the mic. Maybe a console fried. Maybe the power wasn't sufficient at the location. Maybe they were waiting for Trump's check to clear.
If I had to guess, their console fried and they had to haul ass to the truck and get the backup, haul it in, un-crate it swap and repin everything. That's about a 20 min operation. Modern consoles are just computers and prone to breaking, unlike the analogue tanks of yore.
What I find amusing is that, from my experience, major events like a fucking presidential rally that's televised and highly visible
have redundancies already online for everything. For this exact reason. Because how fucking embarrassing and dumb do you look as a presidential candidate who can't even line up a working PA system?
I'm sure someone thought they were saving money by hiring Great Value PA co, or no one reputable with good gear would work for him. There's probably no shortage of idiots who think it was a radical leftist ANTIFA operative that sabotaged it.