Then-President Joe Biden speaks at the State Department, during the closing days of his presidency on Jan. 13, 2025. (AP)
Earlier this week, in his first interview since Trump's inauguration three and a half months ago, Biden sat down with the BBC.
Biden's re-entering into the political and media spotlight may not sit well with many Democrats, who thank the former president for the plethora of policies passed during his single term in the White House but who continue to blame him for last November's election setbacks and who want fresh faces to lead the party as it aims to exit the political wilderness.
The media appearances by Biden come as his White House successor continues to blast and belittle the former president over several issues.
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It comes as the Trump administration, according to a Politico report, is working to release audio of Biden's interview with then-special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden's handling of classified documents and raised questions about Biden's mental acuity in a February 2024 report.
Biden made history in his 2020 White House defeat of Trump as the oldest person ever elected U.S. president. Hur's report amplified questions about whether the then-81-year-old, who at the time was running for re-election, had the physical and mental stamina to serve another four years in the White House.
Then-President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time address to the nation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 to explain his historic decision to end his re-election bid. (Photographer: Evan Vucci/AP Photo/Bloomberg)
The former president also used the interview to blast Trump for single-handily renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, for his repeated comments about acquiring Greenland or taking control of the Panama Canal, and for continuously saying Canada should become America's 51st state.
"What the hell’s going on here? What president ever talks like that? That’s not who we are," Biden said. "We’re about freedom, democracy, opportunity, not about confiscation."
He also pilloried Trump's efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war as "modern-day appeasement."
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Meagher is a longtime operative and strategist with both political and private sector experience on his resume. He's a veteran of the Democratic National Committee, former Sen. John Tester of Montana's successful 2018 reflection, and Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign, when the long shot for the Democratic nomination soared to major contender status.
During the Biden administration, Meagher briefly served under then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg before moving to the White House as a deputy press secretary and later to the Pentagon as Defense Department spokesperson.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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