US election: shortly before the first TV duel - Biden publishes tax return - is he putting Trump under pressure?

On Tuesday evening, US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden meet in a TV debate.

Portraying the challenger as incompetent could have negative consequences for Trump. 

• The first TV duel between

  Donald Trump

  and

  Joe Biden

  is

  coming up

  .

• Fixed topics include the

  corona pandemic

  and the

  racism debate

  .

• Trump regularly portrays Biden as incompetent - which he can now

  refute

  in the

  TV debate

  with minimal effort.

Update from September 29, 8:52 p.m.:

A few hours before his first

duel

,

his tax return.

This will take place five weeks before the presidential election on Tuesday evening in

, Ohio.

The

on Sunday, citing

tax documents that

kept secret

for years

, that the real estate billionaire only paid $ 750 each to the federal

in election year 2016 and in his first year in office in 2017

.

TV duel between Trump and Biden: US President set off $ 70,000 for hair styling

In eleven of the 18 tax years for which the paper sifted through the documents, the president reportedly paid no federal income tax at all.

has used a lot of

in the past 20 years or so

: Among other things, he has deducted costs for his homes and aircraft - and $ 70,000 for hair styling for television appearances.

Unlike his predecessors, Trump keeps his tax documents under lock and key.

He had rejected the newspaper report as "total false news" and "invented".

He also "paid a lot of state income tax," he said with a view to his - also kept under lock and key - tax payments to the state of New York.

TV duel before US election: Joe Biden publishes tax return - and puts Trump under pressure

Update from September 29, 8:21 p.m.:

The Democratic presidential candidate

published

his latest tax return

a few hours before the first TV duel with incumbent

.

Biden and his wife Jill

in

last year,

documents posted on the candidate's website Tuesday

.

The total is in stark contrast to Trump, who

, according to

a report in the

,

paid

only $

to the federal IRS in

2016 and 2017

and made no payments in many other years.

US election: first TV duel against Biden is on - Trump's tactics could take revenge - "attacks and lies"

First report from September 29th:

Cleveland -

and

will

compete against each other

for the first time in a

on Tuesday (Wednesday at 3:00 a.m. CEST) in Cleveland in view of the

.

The 90-minute show is moderated by TV journalist

, who currently works for the Trump-friendly broadcaster Fox News.

His goal is to be as “invisible as possible” and for the candidates to discuss key issues in such a way “so that people at home get a feeling for why they want to vote for one of them”.

A week ago it was determined which topics would be discussed in the program *.

The recent article in the "New York Times" about the finances of

could at most be the discussion at detours part. Because one of the issues is the personal assessment of the candidates.

would have as part of this, the opportunity

on low tax payments and alleged debts of $ 421 million.

Further topics are the

, the economy, the

debate *, the integrity of the elections and the controversial nomination of the conservative Amy Coney Barrett as the successor to the late liberal icon

.

Actually, this is the job of the current US president, but

demanding that the winner of the presidential election fill the post on November 3rd.

First TV duel before US election between Trump and Biden: Trump's tactics could take revenge in the TV debate

Again and again

attacks

, for example he called him "sleepy Joe", claimed that

was not particularly smart and "didn't even know that he is alive." In addition,

demanded

a drug test of the candidates, since

behavior allegedly aimed at performance-enhancing Substances notices.

“I'm asking for a drug test from Sleepy

before or after the

Tuesday night

.

Of course I'll do one too.

His debates were, to say the least, noticeably fluctuating.

Only drugs could have caused such a discrepancy ??? ”wrote

in a tweet.

I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night.

Naturally, I will agree to take one also.

His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly.

Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy ???

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2020

But it is precisely this tactic that

could

now

do

in the

.

According to media reports, part of

campaign team *

suspects

that the 74-year-old president is harming himself.

Because when the bar is that low,

can

surpass it with little effort.

Apparently for this reason,

recently

rowed

back and admitted that he himself has little experience with

, but

had been practiced in it for decades.

Biden, in turn, expects the

mainly to be “personal attacks and lies.” He suspects that it will be “a single frontal attack.” It is the only thing he can do.

“He doesn't know how to discuss facts.

He's not that smart, ”added

.

“He doesn't know much about foreign policy, he doesn't know much about domestic policy.

He doesn't know much about the details. "

US President Trump and Joe Biden

will

clash

in two more

debates

ahead of the November 3 election

- October 15 and October 22.

The

the vice-candidates Mike Pence and Kamala Harris will take place on October 7th.

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