U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. President Biden and former President Trump are facing off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. Agence France-Presse
ATLANTA — US President Joe Biden delivered a broadside at Donald Trump at their Thursday debate, declaring “you’re the loser” as he accused his Republican rival of disparaging veterans and members of the military.
“My son was not a loser, he was not a sucker,” Biden said of his late veteran son Beau, over Trump’s alleged comments in 2018 that he refused to visit a European cemetery with American war dead and called them “losers.”
“You’re the sucker, you’re the loser,’ Biden told Trump, who denied ever using the word to describe US troops.
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