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President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden battled through the coronavirus crisis in Tuesday night’s presidential debate by accusing each other of killing more people if the other had been in office.
“He panicked or he just looked at the stock market, one of the two, because guess what, a lot of people died and a lot more are going to die unless he gets a lot smarter, a lot faster,” Biden said on stage. .
At another point, Trump shouted that it would have been Biden who would have killed more, calling his response to the swine flu pandemic in 2009 a “disaster.”
President Donald Trump (left) and Democrat Joe Biden (right) discussed the coronavirus crisis in the debate Tuesday night, suggesting that the other would have killed more Americans.
Trump pulled out a mask trying to pressure that he was not averse to masks despite mocking Biden for his mask.
Biden, who was serving as vice president at the time, replied that 14,000 died, not 200,000. ‘We don’t shut down the economy. This is their economy that shut down, ” Biden added.
‘If we had listened to you, the country would have been left wide open, millions of people would have died. Not 200,000. And one person is too much. It’s China’s fault. It should never have happened, ” the president said.
Biden criticized Trump for coddling China in the first weeks of the pandemic, saying the president did not push enough to send letters to American health experts.
He didn’t even ask Xi to do that. He told us what a great job Xi was doing, he told us that we owe him a debt of gratitude for being so transparent with us, ” Biden said.
Biden accused Trump of not yet having a plan.
“He should get out of his bunker and get out of the sand trap on his golf course and go to the Oval Office and get Democrats, Republicans together and fund what needs to be done now to save lives,” continued Biden.
The exveep mocked Trump for saying the coronavirus would disappear ‘like a miracle’.
“And maybe you can inject some bleach into your arm and that would work itself out,” Biden offered.
“That was said with sarcasm,” Trump responded.
Trump defended his response to the coronavirus, telling the audience: “We are weeks away from a vaccine.” He also said of Biden’s leadership on COVID: ‘It’s not in your blood.’
Chris Wallace of ‘Fox News Channel’ pointed out to Trump that both CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield and Operation of Warp Speed chief questioned the president’s schedule.
“Well, I have talked to companies and we can do it much earlier; it is very political,” Trump said.
Biden said about Trump and a vaccine: ‘I don’t trust him at all, nor you,’ he said looking at the television camera. “What we trust are the scientists.”
The conversation then turned to the wearing of masks and the campaign.
The president said he didn’t mind wearing a mask, even though he rarely wore one and mocked Biden for wearing his, even suggesting that some experts did not believe they helped prevent the spread of COVID.
“No serious person said otherwise,” interjected Biden.
‘Dr. Fauci said otherwise, ‘Trump said.
“He didn’t say otherwise,” Biden replied.
Trump also said he was having large rallies “because people want to hear what I mean,” while Biden has kept campaign events small due to the pandemic and medical experts advising social distancing.
“Because no one will show up,” Trump laughed.
“So far we have not had any problems,” the president also said. “If you could draw the crowds, you would do the same,” Trump added, giving Biden another chance.
Earlier, when Biden said Trump was not smart, the president responded, ‘Never use the word smart with me.’
Trump then pointed to how Biden had attended the University of Delaware and “graduated as the shortest or near the shortest in his class.”
