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."
fortune.com
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."
![fortune.com](https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229229194.jpg?resize=1200,600)
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.