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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) gestures toward United States President Donald J. Trump (R) as they participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, October 22, 2020. This is the last debate between US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden before the next presidential election on November 3. EPA-EFE / JIM BOURG / POOL
The second and final 2020 U.S. presidential debate saw President Donald Trump temper tantrums when moderator Kristen Welker (mostly) stopped him very harshly. Yet Trump was fashionable for being vague on the facts.
Donald Trump on Thursday night was a little less vocal (for him) than during the first debate of the 2020 presidential election. It will also come as no surprise that, despite the strong moderator, Trump had the most time to speak during the debate, about three minutes longer than Joe Biden.
Fully in character, both men made their first appearance showing their attitudes towards Covid-19, with Trump walking on stage without a mask, while Biden wore a black mask that he removed when he assumed his position.
The fact-checkers of various media organizations were very quick to show inaccuracies as they emerged. And they emerged quickly and immediately when Trump answered the first question which was “How would you lead the country during the next phase of the coronavirus crisis?”
He spoke of the peaks in Europe, and that there were peaks in the US, but that they would soon disappear, before saying:
“We have a vaccine that is yet to come. It is ready, it will be announced in a few weeks and it will be delivered. We have a warp speed operation, which is that the military is going to distribute the vaccine. I was in the hospital, I had it … and now they say I’m immune, whether it’s four months or my whole life, no one has been able to say … this is a global problem … we’re just around the corner, it’s leaving ” .
However, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not yet approved any vaccine for emergency use, and when asked which companies were working on the vaccine, Trump responded, “Johnson & Johnson is doing great. , Moderna is very good, Pfizer is doing very well. And we have many others … “
The fact is Johnson and Johnson stopped its experimental vaccine trial on October 12 after a volunteer fell ill and has not yet rebooted or announced any reboot date. Both Pfizer and Moderna have yet to apply for emergency use authorization.
Trump also insisted that to save the economy, businesses should be open and that asking restaurants to use Plexiglass shields was expensive. He said New York was a ghost town due to all the Covid-19 safety regulations. New Yorkers immediately took to Twitter to prove it was pure fiction.
Trump: “New York City is hell.” New York: pic.twitter.com/OS2KE64pfS
– Kristen Meinzer (@kristenmeinzer) October 23, 2020
True to form, the American president continued with personal attacks on Joe Biden, saying that Biden owns many houses. This is false; Biden owns two houses, one bought in the 1990s for less than $ 400,000 and another bought in 2017 for just over $ 2 million.
Trump also accused Biden of getting money from Russia: “You have three million dollars … there has been no one tougher on Russia than Donald Trump … you were getting a lot of money from Russia … you probably still are … “a clear reference to the accusations that the wife of the mayor of Moscow had given $ 3.5 million to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
Biden responded by urging Trump to release his tax returns: “I have not taken a penny from any foreign source in my life … This president has a secret bank account in China … my tax returns… You have not published a single year of your tax returns, what are you hiding? Publish your tax returns or stop talking about corruption. “
Trump said he had spoken to his accountants after “people said $ 750 (Trump paid $ 750 in federal taxes in 2017), I asked them [his accountants] A week ago, I said, what did I pay? They said ‘sir, you prepaid tens of millions of dollars. I prepaid my taxes over the last few years, tens of millions of dollars… so I already paid that… they keep talking about $ 750, which I think is a filing fee.
When asked by moderator Kristen Welker when he would release his taxes, Trump responded by speaking but not really answering: “The IRS treats me very badly, very unfairly …” and said he wanted to publish it, but that there was an agreement in place. and he had paid his taxes in advance.
On health, Trump mocked Obamacare saying: “Obamacare is not good … here is the problem, no matter how well you handle it, it is not good … so I would like to end Obamacare, propose better health care , always protecting people with existing [conditions]. ” Trump has been working on this replacement health plan for years and it is yet to materialize.
While Biden says he plans to take advantage of Obamacare, “we will make sure to lower premiums and lower drug prices … there is no way that [Trump] can protect pre-existing conditions … Health care is not a privilege, it is a right, everyone should have the right to affordable health care … This is something [Biden’s health plan] that will save people’s lives ”.
On the subject of more than 500 children who were separated from their parents at the border, and whose parents the United States cannot locate, Trump tried to blame Biden and the gangs: “Children are brought here by coyotes and a lot of bad people, cartels. , and they use them to enter this country … you know what they used to say I built the cages … that was him [pointing at Biden]”.
“Coyotes“It’s the term used for people who smuggle people across the border into the United States. Human traffickers should not be confused with human traffickers.
When asked how they will reunite these children with their parents, Trump said “yes, we are trying very hard.”
Biden was outraged and strongly rejected, as he had for most of the debate:
“These more than 500 children came with their parents, they were separated at the border so that it was not an incentive to come… The coyotes did not bring them, their parents were with them, they separated from their parents and that makes us a laughingstock and it violates every notion of who we are as a nation … They ripped those children from their parents.
On race in America, Biden said he understood why black Americans feared for their children and had to have “the conversation“With them:” I never had to tell my daughter if she stopped … put both hands on the top of the wheel and don’t look for the glove compartment because someone might shoot you. But a black dad, no matter how rich or poor he is, has to teach his son … don’t wear a hoodie … if he gets pulled over, yes sir, no sir, hands on top of the wheel. .. because you are indeed a victim if you are the son of a [rich parent] or someone on food stamps … the fact is, there is institutional racism in America. “
Trump first tried to cast a shadow on Biden before saying, “No one has done more for the black community than Donald Trump … with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, possible exception … Criminal justice reform … the biggest beneficiaries , the black and Hispanic communities … they like me. ” And I like them … “
Trump also dropped what was possibly the biggest scandal of the night: “I am the least racist person in this room.”
With 47,664,552 early votes already cast in person or by mail on the ballot, many rapid polls show that Americans believe Joe Biden won this debate.
While Trump, in the words of CNN Jake tapper, “Lying (d) like Pinocchio. ” DM
An Wentzel is a nighttime editor and specialist reporter for the Daily Maverick. She went to the United States to visit her family when the pandemic hit and is currently abandoned in the land of the “free.”
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