❗️ LIVE: US President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump hold first presidential debate

Biden has spent a week preparing for the debate at his residence in Delaware. According to first lady Jill Biden, the president is “ready to go. He's prepared. He's confident."

Trump has held "policy discussions" with close allies as well as campaign rallies to get ready for the debate per the New York Post.

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❗️ US President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump walked up to the stage. The first presidential debate has started.

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"Throughout the entire world, we're no longer respected as a country," Trump said, criticizing Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Biden appears to lose his train of thought and trail off mid-sentence and freeze.

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Biden loses his temper and calls Trump a "sucker".

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"I'll get it settled and I'll get it settled before taking the office," Trump said.

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Trump says Europe should pay more for Ukraine war.

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"Israel should be allowed to finish the war," Trump criticized Biden's wavering support for Israel.

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Biden accused Trump of planning to pull the US out of NATO.

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Trump says Biden could go to prison: "He could be a convicted felon as soon as he gets out of office".

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“The worst presidency in the history of our country”: Trump criticizes Biden’s leadership.

“His presidency is, without question... the worst presidency in the history of our country. We shouldn't be having a debate about it. There's nothing to debate,” said Trump.

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Words appear to elude Biden as he seems to have trouble completing sentences.

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Key foreign policy statements this evening:

🔹 Trump claimed the conflict between Ukraine and Russia "should've never been started." "I'll get it settled and I'll get it settled before talking the office," he said.

🔹 Trump derided Volodymyr Zelensky as "the greatest salesman" while criticizing the amount of money spent by the US funding the war.

🔹 Biden criticized Trump for not pulling troops out of Afghanistan during his term, claiming he is the first president in a decade without US soldiers dying overseas.

🔹 Biden accused Trump of planning to pull the United States out of NATO.

🔹 Trump said Israel should be allowed to "finish the job" in Gaza, accusing Biden of wavering in his support of Israel.

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“We probably won’t have a country left anymore," says Trump, warning that Biden is an existential threat to the United States. "He’s the worst in history by far."

“We are the most admired country in the world," Biden shoots back. "We’re the United States of America. There’s nothing beyond our capacity."

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Trump criticizes the Biden White House's HR policy: “he should’ve fired every military man that was involved with that Afghanistan horror show, the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country."

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"I wish he was a great president, because I wouldn't be here right now": Trump reveals why he is challenging Biden.

"The only reason I'm here is because he is so bad as a president," Trump claimed.

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Trump challenges Biden to a game of golf. Biden accepts the offer.

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Putin “took no land, nothing, from Trump,” the former President said of relations with Russia during his time in the White House.

"That's a war that should've never started," he reiterated. "It would've never started, ever, with me... He's got us in such a bad position right now with Ukraine and Russia because Ukraine's not winning that war… they’re running out of people, they’re running out of soldiers. They’ve lost so many people."

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