berg80
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"Halfway through the second and final debate of the 2020 presidential campaign on Thursday night, Donald Trump and Joe Biden engaged in a remarkable exchange: The two men went back and forth, each accusing the other of blatant financial corruption, mostly having to do with shady dealings in foreign countries.
Without any fact-checker on-site to hold Trump or Biden accountable for their statements, any unwitting viewer—say, your average, undecided, nonideological swing state voter—could be forgiven for thinking they were witnessing a debate between the two most corrupt candidates in American political history, such was the incendiary nature of the allegations being flung across the stage.
But all it would take is a little digging to recognize that most of Biden’s claims against Trump were based in factual reporting and raise serious questions about the integrity of a President who has violated numerous ethical norms during his time in office."
Without any fact-checker on-site to hold Trump or Biden accountable for their statements, any unwitting viewer—say, your average, undecided, nonideological swing state voter—could be forgiven for thinking they were witnessing a debate between the two most corrupt candidates in American political history, such was the incendiary nature of the allegations being flung across the stage.
But all it would take is a little digging to recognize that most of Biden’s claims against Trump were based in factual reporting and raise serious questions about the integrity of a President who has violated numerous ethical norms during his time in office."
On corruption claims, Biden cites facts while Trump tosses unproven allegations
Biden’s claims against Trump were based in factual reporting, while Trump’s accusations against Biden bore the hallmarks of a politician whose relationship to the truth has proven tenuous at best.
fortune.com