Unbiased Moderator? Fuhgeddaboudit!

“I would say that certain moderators would be unacceptable, absolutely,” Trump told TIME on Tuesday. “I want to have fair moderators … I will demand fair moderators,” he said.

Whoever moderates the Trump-Clinton debates will likely go down in history as making Candy Crowley look impartial.

Unfortunately, a look at the leading contenders for the coveted position suggests Trump’s demand will be thoroughly ignored, as each person on the list has displayed contempt for — or open hostility toward — Trump ever since he entered the race.

According to a Politico survey of “media execs, top on-air talent and producers,” the people most likely to be selected for a moderator position are ABC’s Martha Raddatz, CBS’ John Dickerson, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace, NBC’s Chuck Todd and Lester Holt, and PBS’ Gwen Ifill.

Every single one of these journalists has displayed an inherent bias against Trump.

Megyn Kelly found herself involved in a weeks-long online spat with Trump over his comments and her line of question during the first GOP debate. She has made her star battling Trump.

Martha Raddatz has been hostile to Trump from Day One. In Trump’s first interview after making controversial comments about Sen. John McCain in July 2015, Raddatz subjected him to a bitter line of questioning more akin to a verbal excoriation. Raddatz ex-husband is also a friend of Obama’s and former administration official.

Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd long ago surrendered all pretense of impartiality, and have been acting as unofficial Democratic operatives since Trump secured the GOP nomination. In a confrontational exchange with Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, Tapper abandoned journalistic integrity and insisted that Trump did indeed call for the assassination of Hillary Clinton.

“He was talking about what Second Amendment activists could do to stop her — if she won — to stop her from appointing a gun-control nominee to the Supreme Court,” Tapper said. “It wasn’t about November … It’s not about November, it’s after November,” he insisted. Chuck Todd, meanwhile, is on record saying electing Trump could “trigger a constitutional crisis.”

While John Dickerson managed to maintain a mask of impartiality during the primaries, it is now apparent that he too is firmly in the Clinton camp. In a May interview with Clinton, rather than ask her about the numerous scandals hovering over her campaign efforts, Dickerson actually asked Clinton what tough questions she believed the media should be asking Trump.

“You have said that he should be asked hard questions now that he’s in the general election, essentially. What are the — give me three hard questions you think he should be asked,” he said.

Anderson Cooper is another potential moderator whose clear ideological biases suggest he is unfit for the task. During one GOP primary debate, Cooper essential called Trump a five-year old to his face, and while moderating a panel discussion in June, Cooper became visibly upset with Trump surrogate Jeff Lord’s attempts to defend Trump’s comments regarding Judge Gonzalo Curiel.

Lester Holt (who took over anchor duties after Brian Williams was caught lying about his heroic reporting experiences) is also incapable of impartiality. In a June interview, Holt subjected Trump to an incredibly antagonistic line of questioning, in which he directly challenged Trump’s insistence that Clinton’s private email server was likely hacked — effectively accusing him of making it up. Only a month before, Holt himself had reported on hacker Guccifer’s claims that Clinton’s email server was hacked.

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Indeed, of all the names on the list, Chris Wallace and Gwen Ifill appear to have provided the most even-balanced coverage of the Trump campaign. But Ifill, who is black, is seen as so pro-Obama that her choice as a debate moderator in 2008 was criticized heavily, while Wallace has traditionally been sympathetic to the GOP Establishment. He even laughed on air in April at the suggestion that Trump’s campaign became more presidential, suggesting he is no fan of the candidate.

Given the inherent left-wing bias in the media, not to mention the extreme opposition to Trump, whoever moderates the Trump-Clinton debates will likely go down in history as making Candy Crowley look impartial.