I think the person who was in front of the candidates was complicit in the orangegutan's lies.
You do not spend 39 minutes of blatant misrepresentations and then step in. you either come in prepared with an strategy of accountability to deal with the two persons vying for the single most powerful position on earth or you read your questions and shut up.
Lukewarmness is worse than favoritism.
Specially when one of the candidates is a proven threat to life on earth.