Joe Biden called Donald Trump a liar at the start of the US presidential debate.
Cleveland, United States:
US President Donald Trump has defended his response against the coronavirus, which has affected more than seven million people in the country, as Democratic challenger Joe Biden said today during the first presidential debate: “Seven million (have ) contracted the virus. The president has no plan. “
Joe Biden called Donald Trump a liar and told him to “shut up” as the two clashed in a moody start to their first televised debate. “The point is, everything he says so far is just a lie. I’m not here to expose his lies. Everyone knows he’s a liar,” Biden said.
“How many of you got up this morning and had an empty chair at the kitchen table because someone died from Covid?” Biden asked.
Faced with the threat of being appointed one-term president, Trump retaliated by saying, “It’s China’s fault, it never should have happened,” Trump said, adding that “millions” could have die without his actions.
“When you talk about numbers, you don’t know how many people have died in China, you don’t know how many people have died in Russia, you don’t know how many people have died in India,” Trump said during the debate in Cleveland. .
“They don’t exactly give you a count,” he says.
“Many of your Democratic governors have said that President Trump has done a phenomenal job,” Trump said. He also said that “we are weeks away from a vaccine”, and said that “a lot less people are dying”.
The United States has recorded the highest number of Covid cases in the world. Over 200,000 people have died.
The tension was palpable from the first few minutes, with the couple repeatedly interrupting each other, leading to Mr. Biden going wild at one point: “Do you want to shut up, man!”
The debate, watched by a deeply divided nation, comes 35 days before the most tense US election in recent memory.
(With contributions from AFP, ANI)
