It wasn't the lies, the idiotic things he said (thousands of $trillionnaires), or even his Mitch Glitch moments throughout the evening.

For me, his most bizarre "wtf?!" moment was when he was repeating the lie that Trump called our military "losers", then Biden goes waaaayyyy overboard trying to sound angry, and starts yelling at Trump like he was either about to have him killed, or have a stroke. "Don't you EVER call my son a loser!"

Trump handled it so well just standing there like "wtf are you doing man?!"

It was the most specious of claims from the very beginning. It traces back to an article written by Jeffrey Goldberg in 2020 in The Atlantic where the author claims that the cancelation of a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne Cemetery and the Belleau Wood Memorial was because Trump didn't wat to go because the rain would mess up his hair.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

Quote:

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When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that "the helicopter couldn't fly" and that the Secret Service wouldn't drive him there. Neither claim was true.

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In fact, it was true. Under FOIA request, the Marine Corps released the emails from HMX-1, the Presidential helicopter squadron, on the day in question that confirmed that the reason for the cancelation of the visit was indeed inclement weather. The emails are posted for the public to read.

https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=xMXvdI1Xqcg%3d&tabid=16139&portalid=61&mid=121376

Kelly is never directly quoted as claiming Trump called deceased soldiers suckers and losers though he is quoted later in the article as taking offense at comments made by Trump on a Memorial Day visit to his son's grave at Arlington.