Trump, Biden clash over military support after president's alleged disparagement of fallen troops
The question of support for the nations military moved to the center of the campaign Friday as Democrat Joe Biden and President Trump clashed over allegations in a magazine article this week that the president had called dead American service members suckers and losers.
Biden lambasted the presidents purported remarks as disgusting and un-American and accused him of having demonstrated no loyalty to any cause but himself. He demanded that Trump apologize to the families of fallen troops. Trump denied the report and called it a hoax.
Who the heck does he think he is? said Biden, whose late son Beau served in Iraq with the Delaware National Guard. How would you feel if you had a kid in Afghanistan right now? How would you feel if you lost a son or daughter, husband, wife? How would you feel, for real? But you know in your heart, you know in your gut: Its deplorable.
The White House mobilized rapidly in hopes of preventing the debate from becoming a major election issue, one senior official said. More than 10 current and former senior aides including national security adviser Robert OBrien and senior adviser Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law vehemently denied the Atlantics account of the presidents trip to France in 2018.
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