The president highlights that he is “recomposing” the country of the magnate’s inheritance, who accuses the president of “destroying” the United States in four years
Trump mocks Biden after stammering: “I don’t know what he said and I think he doesn’t know either,” and Biden calls him an “asshole” and a “loser”
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, and former president Donald Trump held a televised debate on CNN this Thursday night in which they defended their respective efforts while exchanging insults or derogatory comments.
Trump has accused Biden of “destroying” the country in the four years of his mandate, and has assured that his “poor work” in the White House has turned the nation into part of “the third world”, while the president has highlighted that his Administration is “recomposing” the country of the magnate’s inheritance, who bequeathed an economy “in free fall” due to a “very bad” management of the Covid-19 pandemic, although Trump has continued to highlight his management during that period.
“We have to take a look at what they left me when I became president, what Mr. Trump left me. We had an economy in free fall. The pandemic was managed very poorly. What we had to try was to put things back together, and That’s exactly what we started doing,” Biden said.
However, Trump has insisted that the United States had “the largest economy in the history of the country” and that currently “inflation is killing” American citizens while he left inflation “almost nonexistent.”
Furthermore, Trump has taken advantage of Biden’s babbling to mock him: “I don’t know what he said and I think he doesn’t know either”; The current president, for his part, has called his opponent an “imbecile” and a “loser” in reference to some statements by Trump in which he referred in this way to deceased war veterans, although the magnate has denied that I said it.
CONFLICT IN UKRAINE AND GAZA
Trump has accused Biden of leading the country into a third world war after causing the world to “not respect” the United States after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which he considers the “most shameful moment in American history.”
“All over the world they no longer respect us as a country. They no longer respect our leadership, they no longer respect the United States,” the former president stated.
However, Biden has stated that it is Trump who will allow the start of a global conflict, and has cited statements in which the magnate threatened NATO allies with “letting Russia do whatever it wants” if they did not increase their budgets. military.
The former president has also assured that neither the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, nor the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, nor the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “fear” or “respect” Biden, which is why “Russia is going to stay with Ukraine”.
He has also defended that he will end the war even before taking office as president and that the invasion “would never have started” if he had occupied the Oval Office.
However, Biden has assured that Putin is “a war criminal” and that after Ukraine he “will not stop”, but will try to take over countries like Poland or Belarus.
Regarding the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Biden has defended his proposal for a three-phase ceasefire, while Trump has not specified his way of approaching the situation while continuing to blame the president for allowing the attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement. (Hamas), noting that Iran had “no money” to fund its militias while he was in the White House. Regarding the recognition of the Palestinian State, Trump has expressed that he “would have to see it.”
BLOCK ON MIGRATION
The immigration issue has been the most used by the Republican leader to attack his Democratic adversary, whom he accuses of opening the country’s borders and letting “terrorists from all over the world” enter while during his mandate it was “the safest border.” of history.”
“He decided to open our border, open our country to people who come from prisons, people who come from mental institutions, asylums, terrorists. We have the largest number of terrorists entering our country right now, all terrorists, all over the world, no only in South America, they come from the Middle East, from everywhere,” he added.
Biden has denied the accusations, claiming that “they are not true” and that “there is no data” to support such claims, and he has criticized Trumo’s immigration policy because it “separated babies from their mothers” and “locked them in cages.”
ABOUT ABORTION
One of the great controversies between Democrats and Republicans in recent years has been that of abortion, specifically since the Supreme Court reversed in 2022 the historic ruling that established abortion as a right at the federal level, giving rise to numerous states controlled by the conservatives have applied very restrictive measures in this regard.
Although Trump has been in favor of the Supreme Court’s decision to preserve access to contraceptive pills, which he will not block if he becomes President, he has also defended the 2022 ruling that allows states to legislate on the matter.
Biden has defended the restoration of the Roe vs. Wade ruling, the aforementioned ruling that allowed abortion, while Trump has charged against it by ensuring that what they intend is to “kill babies” just before their birth, something that the president has categorically denied.
LEGAL PROBLEMS OF TRUMP AND HUNTER BIDEN
Regarding the different judicial proceedings opened against the magnate, he has defended that “he has not had sex with a porn actress”, in reference to his conviction for bribing former porn film actress Stephanie Clifford, known as ‘Stormy Daniels’, to change of his silence.
Likewise, he has evaded responsibility for the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2020, defending that his actions and words were “peaceful and patriotic”, and has tried to divert attention with the guilty verdict against Hunter Biden, the president’s son, for having a gun in his possession at a time when he was using drugs.
“The only person in this scenario who is a convicted felon is the man I’m looking at right now,” said Biden, who believes Trump “has the morals of a stray cat.”
After this, the magnate has insisted on his argument of recent months, which consists of accusing him of orchestrating a political campaign to prevent his victory in the presidential elections.
CRITICISM OF BIDEN FOR HIS INTERVENTIONS
After the end of the debate, political analysts on CNN have criticized Biden’s interventions, considering his performance as “painful”, and have assured that some members of the Democratic Party are speaking to ask that he withdraw from the presidential race.
However, Biden himself has defended that he has had a “good performance” and that it is difficult to debate with “a liar”, citing figures from the newspaper ‘New York Times’, which has counted up to 26 “big lies” by Trump. .
For her part, Vice President Kamala Harris has come out in support of Biden and, despite his “slow start,” has finished the debate “strongly.”
