US Presidential Debate: President Biden, Trump Trade Insults Over Border Security
Drama ensued between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in their CNN debate Thursday night with the two candidates exchanging biting words over the state of the southern border.
CNN moderator, Jake Tapper had asked President Joe Biden to inform voters why he can curb the record-high numbers of illegal migrants crossing the border.
Responding after touting Congress’s bipartisan border package that lawmakers bucked earlier this year, Biden said, “We find ourselves in a situation where when he was president, he was separating babies from their mothers put them in cages, making sure that the families were separated.”
“That’s not the right way to go. What I’ve done since I’ve changed the law, what’s happened? I’ve changed it in a way that now you’re in a situation where there are 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally, that’s better than when he left office. And I’m going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we can do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers,” Biden said.
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But Trump, appearing to not understand Biden, responded: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence, I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
He said: “Look, we had the safest border in the history of our country,” Trump continued. “All he had to do was leave it, all he had to do was to leave it. He decided to open up our border, open up our country, to people that are from prisons, people that are from mental institutions, insane asylum, terrorists – we have the largest number of terrorists coming into our country right now.”
Biden’s response was quieter, and brief: “Everything he said is a lie. Every single one.”
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