Thursday night’s first debate for the 2024 presidential election between President Biden and former President Trump featured some heated moments and sharp recriminations.
The candidates debated a range of topics including immigration and borders, war with Israel and abortion, and traded blows over each other’s record.
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Here are the top five moments from CNN’s presidential debate.
President Biden and former President Trump debated on Thursday night. (Getty Images)
1. “I didn’t have sex with a porn star.”
During the debate, Biden criticized Trump for various criminal cases he is involved in, including a trial in New York in which Trump was convicted of falsifying business records related to the alleged payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels, a porn actress with whom he had an affair. However, Trump retorted, “I didn’t have sex with a porn star.”
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2. Trump criticizes Biden for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
“He’s been absolutely terrible on Afghanistan,” Trump said during the debate, calling it a “terrible, terrible embarrassment.”
“He should have fired those generals, just like I fired the general you mentioned, so I don’t hold any grudges against him, but he should have fired those generals,” he added. “Generals don’t get fired for leaving billions of dollars of equipment behind in Afghanistan, the most embarrassing moment in our country’s history. We lost 13 great soldiers, 38 soldiers wiped out.”
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3. Biden denies wrongdoing, calls it “outrageous”
The president called Trump’s suggestion that he could be prosecuted “outrageous.”
“Joe may be a convicted felon based on everything he’s done,” Trump argued.
“This guy is a criminal. This guy — you’re lucky. You’re lucky. I haven’t done anything wrong. There’s going to be a rigged, unpleasant system. I haven’t done anything wrong,” he added.
“The idea that I did anything wrong is outrageous,” Biden countered.
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Four. Biden said:It does not apply to late-term abortions.
Biden fired back at Trump after the former president said he would allow abortions later in pregnancy.
“So the president can take the lives of nine-month-old babies? In some Democrat-run states, they take lives right after they’re born. The former governor of Virginia said, ‘We’re going to euthanize them and then we’ll decide what to do with them.’ So the president is going to rip so-called nine-month-old babies out of the womb and kill them. Nobody wants that. Democrats, Republicans. Nobody wants that,” Trump said.
But Biden insisted, “You’re lying. That’s simply not true.”
According to the president, he “is not in favor of late-term abortion. Period.”
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Five. Trump claims Biden has ‘become like a Palestinian’
While discussing Israel’s war with the terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Trump accused Biden of not wanting Israel to “finish the job.”
“He’s become like the Palestinians, and they hate him because he’s a very bad Palestinian. He’s a weak person,” he said.
Biden responded, “I’ve never heard anything more stupid.”
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