On Thursday night, CNN hosted the highly anticipated presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. However, the discussion was nothing short of a disaster for the Biden campaign, as the president displayed continual signs of poor cognitive function in his advanced age.
Throughout the event, Biden struggled to convey his rhetoric and talking points, often stumbling over his words. Early in the debate, the president was trying to make a point about his agenda to increase taxes on billionaires as a prescription for America’s ever-growing mountain of debt.
“He had the largest national debt of any president in a four-year period,” Biden said, criticizing Trump’s fiscal record. “Number two, that $2 trillion tax cut benefitted the very wealthy. What I’m gonna do is fix the tax system. For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America. I mean billionaires. And what’s happening? We’re in a situation where they in fact pay 8.2% in taxes. If they just pay 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers we would’ve raised $500 million– billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period. We’d be able to wipe out his debt.”
Biden continued, discussing what could supposedly be done with healthcare benefits with the incremental tax revenue from increasing taxes on America’s wealthiest residents. However, the incumbent appeared to short-circuit toward the end of his monologue, freezing before proclaiming that he “beat” Medicare.
“We’d be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do – childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the, uh, with the Covid. Excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look…we finally beat Medicare,” Biden said.
After Biden concluded his remarks, CNN moderator Jake Tapper said, “Thank you, Mr. President,” before asking former President Donald Trump his thoughts on the comments. Trump agreed with Biden’s semantics, stating that he is “destroying” government benefits such as Medicare and Social Security.
“Boy, he’s right. He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death and he’s destroying Medicare because all of these people are coming in. They’re putting them on Medicare. They’re putting them on Social Security. They’re gonna destroy Social Security,” Trump said. Watch the clip here:
Joe Biden Muttering and Mumbling at the Start of the Debate, Trump Follows Up:
“Well he’s right he did beat medicare, he beat it to death and he’s destroying medicare because all of these people are coming in, their putting them on Medicare, their putting the on Social Security,… pic.twitter.com/5xE0154U9n
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The presumptive Republican nominee went on to criticize the Biden administration for allegedly trying to provide millions of illegal immigrants with social security benefits funded by American taxpayers. Trump argued that Biden will “wipe out” Social Security and Medicare.
“This man is going to single handedly destroy Social Security. These millions and millions of people coming in, they’re trying to put them on Social Security. He will wipe out Social Security. He will wipe out Medicare. So he was right in the way he finished that sentence, and it’s a shame what’s happened to our country in the last four years is not to be believed. Foreign countries, I’m friends with a lot of people, they cannot believe what happened to the United States of America. We’re no longer respected. They, they don’t like us. We give them everything they want. And they, they think we’re stupid. They think we’re very stupid people. What we’re doing for other countries, and they do nothing for us what this man has done is absolutely criminal,” Trump said.
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