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January 9, 2025 4 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
With less than two weeks remaining in his presidency, Mister
Joe Biden. President Joe Biden sat down for a wide
ranging interview with the publication USA Today. Biden made several
headlines during the conversation, but I want to focus on
a few things that stood out. Okay. The president says
he still believes he could have defeated President of ELEC.
Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election based on

(00:25):
the poll numbers he saw at the time. However, Biden
expressed no such confidence when asked whether he had the
stamina to serve another four years in office. It's presumptuous,
he said, to say that I would have beaten Trump.
But I think yes. When Trump was running again for reelection,
I really thought I had the best chance of beating him.
But I also wasn't looking to be president when I

(00:46):
was eighty five years old, eighty six years old, and
so I did talk about passing the baton. But I
don't know if I could have served another four years.
Who the hell knows end quote. First of all, that
quote is verification on several levels. It's validation on several levels.

(01:08):
Why President Biden should have bowed his ass out of
the race. You see, you can't let him off the
hook here. So let me get this straight. You knew
that you probably couldn't go another four years, but you
ran for election. You didn't bow out. You didn't do
what you had promised to do, was to be a

(01:29):
transitional president and passed up a dawn to a younger generation.
You didn't do that. Then you sat up there and
you avoided primaries, and then you winning showed up on
June twenty seventh and looked lost. As Anthony Scaramucci on
News Nation, political analyst former Trump guy said this about

(01:54):
Joe Biden. At the time, he looked like a patient
in a nursing home waiting for his apple sauce. But
you're saying that before that you knew that you probably
couldn't give us four more years, but you ran anyway.

(02:19):
That is pathetic, That is inexcusable. But by the way,
let me take it a step further, it's also delusional
that you were to beat Trump. Let's state that for
the obvious, because clearly the American people were spoken, and
if they spoke against Kamala Harris, the likelihood is that
they would have spoken against you because of the things
you yourself just mentioned. This is the kind of stuff

(02:45):
that's going to hurt the Democratic Party for years to come,
because you see, if he felt that way and he
had those reservations even though he believed he could beat
Trump in a runoff of the election. The bottom line
is the Democratic Party knew and they tried to hide them.
You don't have credibility any longer. Now. That's not to

(03:06):
say the Republicans are rife with credibility themselves. I mean,
I'm listening to the pomping circumstance that Trump is going
out there Greenland. I want that. I want that not
a bad thing and not a bad thing to bloviate
about because you're competing with China and Russia. And I said,
we're talking about commerce there, we're talking about national security
issues there. I get that part. Okay, we want to

(03:27):
go call it the Gulf of America instead of goulf
of Mexico. Really, really, that's what we do, That's what
we're doing. Bluster, How much is that going to amount to?
What does that really really mean? So we're gonna see
more of it, and Trump's gonna be Trump. But when
I saw that quote from Biden, I said, thank god
he's leaving. Thank God. I've had enough. Now. I'm not

(03:52):
gonna pardon Hunter, and I don't mind you if it
was my son, I hat of part of them. I'm
not gonna parton. We made decisions not gonna happen. Then
you went against you, it happened, it happened. You're about
the rule of law. We are about the rule of law. Yeah,
really really, But then you're not. I I'm so sick
of all of this. I don't wanna talk about it
no more.
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