'YOU'RE THE LOSER': BIDEN HITS TRUMP FOR REMARK ABOUT VETERANS

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President Joe Biden insisted that former President Donald Trump is a 'sucker' and a 'loser' as Trump insisted the report that he called dead World War I veterans just that was 'made up.' 

'I was recently in France for a day, and I spoke well about those heroes that died. I went to the World War Two cemetery, World War One cemetery, he refused to go to,' Biden said during the Thursday night debate in Atlanta. 

In 2020 The Atlantic reported that Trump declined a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, because he 'feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain.' 

The outlet reported that Trump told staff of the visit: 'Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers.'

'My son was not a loser, was not a sucker,' Biden said, referring to his late son Beau who deployed to Iraq in the Army. Biden has long blamed his son's deadly brain cancer on the burn pits he was exposed to while deployed.

'You're the sucker! You're the loser!' Biden went on. 

'First of all, that was made up,' Trump said of the quote.  'They made it up. It was in the third grade magazine that's failing. Like many of these magazines, he made that up,' he added, referring to The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. 

Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly confirmed the comments and added that Trump had said he didn't want to include military amputees at a 2018 White House event, when he allegedly said their presence 'doesn't look good for me.'

Four years later, the story apparently weighs on Trump's mind. 

'Think of it, from a practical standpoint,' Trump said before a crowd in Las Vegas earlier this month. 'I'm standing there with generals and military people in a cemetery, and I look at them and say, 'These people are suckers and losers.' Now, think of it; unless you're a psycho or a crazy person or a very stupid person, who would say that, anyway?' 

 In 2015 Trump did make eyebrow-raising remarks about Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. 

'He's not a war hero,' Trump insisted. 'He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured.' 

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