Thread by @kenvogel

BIDEN, on @BernieSanders: "I beat him by a whole hell of a lot."

CHRIS WALLACE, to TRUMP: "Please let the Vice President talk."

BIDEN: "The fact is, this man doesn't know what he's talking about."

BIDEN: "Will you shut up, man?!"

TRUMP claims that, if BIDEN were in charge of coronavirus response, "millions of people would have died."

TRUMP, on media coverage of BIDEN vs. him: "They give you good press. They give me bad press."

TRUMP: "Don't ever use the word smart with me. Don't ever use that word, because you know what, there's nothing smart about you."

TRUMP said of AMY CONEY BARRETT "some of her biggest endorsers are very liberal people.”

This is mostly true, writes @adamliptak, citing @Harvard_Law professor @NoahRFeldman's assertion that ACB deserves to be confirmed. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/op…
nytimes.com/live/2020/09/2…

TRUMP: "I'm the one who brought back football!"

BIDEN: "Show us your tax returns"

TRUMP: "You'll see it as soon as it's finished."

TRUMP: "I don't want to pay tax."

BIDEN: "You are the worst president America has ever had, c'mon!"

BIDEN: “It’s hard to get any word in with this clown. I’m sorry, this president.”

TRUMP claimed HUNTER BIDEN "takes out billions of $ to manage" from China, & "makes millions of $.”

There's no evidence of this.

Hunter Biden is involved in a Chinese gov't-linked private equity fund, but his lawyer says he has not received any $ from it nytimes.com/live/2020/09/2…

TRUMP claimed “the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son $3.5 million.”

This is misleading.

Senate Republicans flagged a $3.5M transfer from the Moscow businesswoman to a firm associated with Hunter Biden, but he had no interest in the firm, per his atty. nytimes.com/live/2020/09/2…

TRUMP, using the debate to try to set the stage to question the legitimacy of the results:

"As far as the ballots are concerns, it's a disaster."

"This is going to be a fraud like you've never seen."

"It's a rigged election."

BIDEN: "He's just afraid of counting the votes."

BIDEN: "I am concerned that any court would settle this."

TRUMP: "I am urging my supporters to go into the polls & watch very carefully."

CHRIS WALLACE: Will you urge your supporters to stay calm while the vote is counted & will you pledge not to declare victory until the vote is counted?

TRUMP: Warns of fraud.

BIDEN: Yes.

.@jaketapper: "We'll talk about who won the debate, who lost the debate, but I can tell you one thing for sure — the American people lost tonight, because that was horrific."

@DanaBashCNN: "that was a shitshow."

TRUMP said “They want to take out the cows.”

FACT-CHECK: False.

Trump was referring to the Green New Deal, which does not literally call for the elimination of cows (or cars & airplanes).

A @YLindaQiu classic. nytimes.com/live/2020/09/2…

HANNITY'S TAKE: Biden "just got steamrolled by President TRUMP ... unable to respond to the president's beat-downs."

JOE BIDEN CLAIMED: “We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before.”

FACT-CHECK: False.

The trade deficit with China fell sharply between 2018 & 2019 as TRUMP's trade war suppressed commerce between the world’s largest economies nytimes.com/live/2020/09/2…

@AnaSwanson:

TRUMP CLAIMED: “I brought back 700,000 jobs.”

FACT-CHECK: False.

In his first 3 years as president, manufacturing employment rose by less than 500k jobs.

But because of jobs lost to the pandemic manufacturing jobs are down 200k since Trump took office. nytimes.com/live/2020/09/2…