Initially we were skeptical, but open-minded, about the “debate-gate” lectern, mic, etc. issues in the first presidential debate.  However, with responses from the debate commission now on record – it appears the manipulative constructs are not refuted, but actually confirmed.
Fox News Brit Hume and Fox correspondent James Rosen have been earnest in their efforts to ridicule anyone who has questioned several aspects of the debate.   Ridicule is a potent weapon to dismissively label genuine inquiry “conspiracy theory”.

Face it, no-one wants to be considered weird or odd for asking questions.  Then again, it is this inherent aversion which allows abusers to gaslight their victims.  Accepting this truism it becomes challenging to confront deception when those who would willingly participate in fraud, circle the proverbial wagons to isolate the boy questioning the emperor’s invisible robe…
So let’s just stick to two essential bits of information that stand as queries made, and questions answered.  Answers, that factually only raise more questions when common sense is applied:
POINT ONE – Yesterday, Fox correspondent James Rosen confirmed that Hillary Clinton’s lectern was outfitted with a light.   Ignore the ridicule, tone, and dismissive construct of this Fox News segment and pay close attention to 02:32 when Rosen says the debate commission confirmed the lighting aspect:

On its face, that reply is an attempt to remove the issue. But those who are intellectually honest, and have inoculated themselves from gaslighting, will note Rosen’s explanation only raises more uncomfortable questions:
If what the debate commission says is true, then Why wasn’t Donald Trump’s lectern lit?
Secondly, and more importantly, the natural follow-up to such an explanation would have been: “Who was in charge of this light, turning it on and off”? It was obviously not the candidate herself. So who was in control of it?
That’s the question, that becomes uncomfortable to answer… because it instantly confirms an external party -separate from the candidate- was in control of an electronic medium connected to the lectern of that candidate.
This follow-up admission then raises the very real possibility that other electronic measures were similarly constructed…. and they wouldn’t want to go there in that conversation now, would they?

POINT TWO – “The Trump Microphone“. In another interview, essentially structured with the same dismissive intent, Politico questions Debate Commission Co-Chair Mike McCurry about Donald Trump’s microphone issues. McCurry was former President Bill Clinton’s Press Secretary.

.@mikeallen sits down with the co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential @debates to talk about Trump's mic https://t.co/8gpcL5ZCxu pic.twitter.com/a3fMVMXfCU

— POLITICO (@politico) October 4, 2016

Notice how McCurry says “they”, meaning the sound engineers, were attempting to modulate the sound level of Donald Trump’s microphone during the debate itself.
Accepting McCurry’s retort, like the Rosen explanation/non-explanation, uncomfortable questions then begin to reconcile.
It is well known in political debate history that Al Gore’s 2000 debate sighs and noises when George W Bush was speaking were considered a liability and were ridiculed immediately following the 2000 debate.  With that in mind, the “sound engineers” moderating the level of the Trump microphone can easily be accepted as an attempt to duplicate the historic controversy.
An objective debate watcher then acknowledges the immediately noticed “Trump sniffing” during Hillary Clinton’s response could very well have been, and indeed entirely most-like was, a result of this manipulative intent.  Simply turn up the directional volume on Trump’s mic when Clinton was speaking and you can broadcast Trump’s breathing.
Then, after we accept this reality, we recognize the explanation of the issue being only related to the internal hall audience, was/is entirely FALSE.  The microphone sound in the hall and the microphone sound in the broadcast were both being modulated.
The last aspect of McCurry blaming the Trump campaign for not conducting a sound check is entirely BULLSHIT. The mic check is not dependent on the candidate; the mic check is dependent on the sound engineer checking the mic, and both campaign staffs participated therein. This is what sound engineers do.
To nail this final point home, the non-gaslit person reviewing this disingenuous obfuscation will note Hillary Clinton herself never conducted a mic check, and the issue was isolated to her opponent.

When you add these two recent responses from the debate commission, into the weird post-debate lectern visitation by the Clinton team, where the Clinton team made seven trips to her lectern to remove “items” [-Discussed at Length HERE and HERE -] what you walk away from is an acceptance the architecture of the debate, designed by the debate commission, was constructed to the exclusive benefit of Hillary Clinton.
There are trillions of dollars at stake.