Trump wants viewers to believe that he is worried about the pressure being placed on Holt:

Trump says there’s pressure on NBC’s Holt ahead of Monday’s debate at Hofstra University. He likens it to the pressure former Indiana University basketball coach and Trump supporter Bobby Knight used to put on referees. Trump says: “A lot of people are watching to see whether or not he succumbs to that pressure.”

Trump doesn’t like the press, no surprise there, and he especially dislikes it when they challenge his lies, including his most recent one about Barack Obama’s birthplace.

"(Hillary Clinton’s) campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy," Trump said at the end of a long press conference at the Trump International Hotel. "I finished it. President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.

The media immediately fact-checked that statement and called him out: Clinton never made the claim that Obama was born outside the U.S. How did the Trump campaign respond? By putting out a press release that double-downed on the lie.

“With Clinton’s 2008 campaign manager admitting on national television and on Twitter that they promoted the rumors surrounding now-President Obama’s heritage, Mr. Trump has been fully vindicated.

Unless Holt is allowed to do his job as moderator, Trump will hijack the debates and turn them into the Eight Circle of Hell—fraud.