Bassil calls Geagea 'coward', 'liar' and 'criminal' after he accuses him of corruption

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil lashed out overnight at Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea after the latter accused him of corruption during a live interview on MTV.

“I call on Marcel Ghanem (the host who interviewed Geagea) to organize a debate between me and Samir Geagea so that we can reveal to the Lebanese public who is corrupt and criminal and who has committed crimes against Christians, the Lebanese people, their state and their homeland,” Bassil said in a post on X.

“I know he (Geagea) won't dare because he's a coward, and because I will expose all his lies and crimes, not only against the people he once slaughtered, but against the very entity he is slaughtering every day,” Bassil added.

Told about Bassil’s remakrs during the interview, Geagea sarcastically replied that he "can't compete with the president of the world's most powerful university.” He had said during the interview that Bassil should be the president of “a university specializing in deception and lies.”

“Among the biggest acts of fraud that Lebanon and the Lebanese people have witnessed was the way Bassil and his team managed the electricity sector,” Geagea charged during the interview.