The former president and his onetime sidekick, and now would-be heir, get together at a distance to trash Trump and promote Biden's candidacy.
President Trump’s animus toward Obama is long-standing. The former president is eager to help Joe Biden defeat him.The conversation, filmed in Obama’s Washington office, marked the first time the two men had met in person since before the COVID-19 pandemic drove the 2020 campaign — and much of the U.S. economy — into lockdown to slow the spread of the virus.
The two men, filmed sitting in leather chairs far removed from each other, criticized Trump for his handling of the coronavirus crisis and for trying to deflect responsibility for its spread. “Can you imagine standing up when you were president and saying, ‘It’s not my responsibility, I take no responsibility’?” Biden said.Biden denounced Trump as a divisive leader, harking back to the day Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign in his Manhattan office building: “He ran by deliberately dividing people from the moment he came down that escalator. And I think people are now going, ‘I don’t want my kid growing up that way.
Trump, on Twitter, derided Obama for making “a commercial” for Biden after not backing him during the Democratic primary, and said he was elected because of dissatisfaction with the Obama administration: “Remember, I wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for them. I wouldn’t be president. They did a terrible job.”
Obama deliberately stayed out of the crowded Democratic primary contest to avoid unduly swaying his party’s choice. Since Biden clinched the nomination, Obama has taken an
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