President Joe Biden falsely claimed he is the first president in the past decade not to have Americans die overseas during Thursday’s debate with former President Donald Trump.
Biden failed to mention the thirteen service members who died during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal on August 26, 2021, the first year of his administration.
“When he was president, there were still killing people in Afghanistan, and he didn’t do anything about that,” Biden said. “When he was president, we still found ourselves in a position where you had a notion that we were the safe country. The truth is, I’m the only president [in] this century, that doesn’t have any — this decade — that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world.”
