Hillary Clinton looks on during the presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, September 26, 2016. (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder) Lost among the repetitive sniffing, the incoherent rants about “the cyber,” and his non-canonical lack of restraint or decency on the presidential debate stage, Donald Trump threatened to abandon at least two of our closest eastern allies unless they help pay for our diplomatic and military aid. There were nearly too many egregious violations of every presidential debate rule to properly index all of them — any one of which would’ve ended the presidential aspirations of any previous candidate.