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President Joe Biden on Wednesday choked up as he blasted Donald Trump, saying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee "doesn't deserve to be the Commander-in-Chief for my son." "They asked him to go visit American grave sites. Because they were all suckers and losers," Biden said, citing the reports about Trump's rationale. That man doesn't deserve," Biden said, pausing for several seconds as he choked up before adding, "to be the Commander-in-Chief for my son." Beau Biden died in 2015, when his father was vice president in the administration of former President Barack Obama.
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Some publications have seized on Joe Biden's statement that his son "lost his life in Iraq." But Biden has long tied the toxic burn pits his son was exposed to during his military service to his brain cancer. "I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the Conspicuous Service Medal, and lost his life in Iraq. He said then that he became aware of the possible link while reading, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers," by Joseph Hickman. Biden said his grandson, who was seated next to the girl, lost his father "to the same burn pits."
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