POTUS Debate: Biden And Trump Fight Over Their Golf Handicaps
28.06.2024 - 02:37
/ deadline.com
UPDATE: As the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump neared the 90 minute mark, their sparring turned to their golf handicaps.
“I would be happy to have a driving contest with him,” Biden said, adding that when he was vice president, “I got my handicap down to a six.”
Trump then smirked and shook his head.
Biden then reminded Trump that “I would be happy to play golf with you if you carried your own bag.”
Trump expressed disbelief. “I have seen your swing. I know your swing.”
Finally co-moderator Dana Bash got them to move on.
PREVIOUSLY: “I didn’t have sex with a porn star,” Donald Trump said at one point during the debate, after Joe Biden lashed into his rival fora lengthy court record.
“The crimes you are still charged with,” Biden said. “How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties for molesting a woman in public, for doing a whole range of things, for having sex with a porn star on the night your wife was pregnant. You have the morals of an alley cat.”
Trump had been asked about his statement that he would have every right to go after his political opponents.
Trump said that “my retribution is going to be success.” He then went on to criticize the conviction of Biden’s son, Hunter, on a gun charge, while making other long discredited claims about Biden’s own involvement in the removal of a Ukrainian prosecutor.
PREVIOUSLY: Joe Biden slammed Donald Trump for encouraging rioters on January 6th, laying into the predecessor for his inaction even as many of his supporters were sacking the Capitol.
“I sat in that dining room off the Oval Office. He sat there for three hours watching, being begged by his vice president and a number of his colleagues to do something. …Instead he talked about these