Disclaimer on our coverage of the US presidential debate: We are biased. We have always been biased. All media everywhere is biased, but we freely admit to it. What feels like a long time ago, we used to be very tough on Sec. Clinton especially with regard to the email scandal. But when a greater threat emerged to the very fabric of reality, we were forced to adjust our risk assessment.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and an individual going by the alias “Donald Trump” went head to head Monday evening (early Tuesday morning our time) in the season’s first presidential debate to an expected viewership of 100 mn people in the United States alone. The debate was moderated by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, who appeared most of the time to simply be a bystander as Trump steamrolled over him, interrupted him and interrupted Sec. Clinton. Holt was also unable to keep the audience from continually hooting and hollering as if it were a crowd at a WWE match.

A close race in a post-factual age: To prepare, Clinton relied on longtime aide Philippe Reines as a stand-in for Trump in her mock debates to prepare. Trump, on the other hand, said that he simply watched old debates of Sec. Clinton going up against US President Barack Obama in 2008. Clinton was able to use the difference in preparation as an applause line to her favor when Trump had been bragging that he had “been all over the place,” in reference to his tireless campaigning around the United States. “You decided to stay home,” he said dismissively to Clinton. “And that’s ok.” Clinton was able to interrupt: “I think Donald just accused me of preparing for the debate. And that’s right. And I prepared to be president too, and that’s a good thing,” to which the audience erupted into applause.

Tap here to read more of our coverage of the debate. Or click here to watch the full debate for yourself (run time: 1 hour, 34 minutes). Also worth checking out: The New York Times’ recap of “what you missed” — a bulleted list of zingers from the night.