Biden fumes at Trump during debate over unverified servicemember claims: ‘You’re the sucker, you’re the loser’
President Biden raged at Donald Trump during Thursday’s presidential debate in Atlanta when reflecting on unverified reports of him calling amputated servicemembers “suckers” and “losers.”
“He was standing with his four-star general .. [and he] said I don’t want to go in there because they’re losers and suckers. My son was not a loser. He’s not a sucker,” Biden said.
“You’re the sucker, you’re the loser.”
What to know about the planned debates between President Biden and former President Trump:
- President Biden and former President Donald Trump have tentatively agreed to two presidential debates ahead of the Nov. 5. election.
- Biden released a video telling Trump to “make my day, pal” and debate him. The president noted that Trump has previously asked to debate “anytime, anyplace and anywhere.”
- Trump accepted Biden’s challenge and wrote on Truth Social that he would be open to having even more debates with large, live crowds.
- The first debate will be hosted by CNN at the company’s Atlanta headquarters at 9 p.m. ET Thursday, June 27. There will not be a live audience, and moderators will be announced later.
- The second debate will be hosted by ABC News on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
- The Commission on Presidential Debates — which has organized debates since the 1988 election — will not be involved in either debate.
- Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not invited to join the debates. Kennedy accused the other candidates of “colluding” to keep him out of the events.
“First of all, that was a made-up quote,” Trump responded. “They made it up. It was in a third-rate magazine [The Atlantic] that’s failing, like many of these magazines. They made that up. He put it in commercials.”