Things got heated during the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The former vice president is not staying silent on attacks from the president on his family.
Joe Biden responded to Trump’s targeting of his son Hunter Biden, as he was asked about the moment during a Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC’s 3News interview, “You stopped, you looked at him, you gave him quite a look. Can I ask you what was going through your head at that moment?”
“I just thought that it was hard for me to believe that a president of the United States would be so viciously classless and do what he did,” Joe Biden responded.
He then added that Trump was trying to “just attack my family and to get me angry,” but “all I kept thinking was I just I wonder how many people had to take their kids away from the television set when this was going on just to say, ‘This is not who we are. This is not who we are as a nation,’ that’s all I kept thinking.”
Watch Biden’s remarks below:
Trump tore into Hunter Biden’s business dealings abroad during the debate when he brought up the former vice president’s son and allegations, as IJR reported.
“China ate your lunch, Joe. And no wonder, your son goes there he takes out billions of dollars…He makes millions of dollars,” Trump said, adding, “Just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son $3.5 million. What did he do to deserve it?”
Biden fired back and said that Trump’s allegations were “totally discredited.”
In case you missed it:
"Just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow's wife gave your son $3.5M. What did he do to deserve it?"@realDonaldTrump hammers @JoeBiden over the reported financial payments made to his son Hunter while abroad. pic.twitter.com/CRVn8YHXhB
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 30, 2020
The moderator, Fox News’ Chris Wallace, said post-debate that he was “disappointed with the results” of the debate, as IJR reported.
“For me, but much more importantly, I’m disappointed for the country, because it could have been a much more useful evening than it turned out to be,” Wallace said in an interview with The New York Times the day after the debate.
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Wednesday there will be “additional structure” added “to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.”
The other two presidential debates will be held on Oct. 15 and Oct. 22.