Joe Biden, in his first interview after quitting the US presidential race, said that some Democrats pushed him out of the race with Speaker Nancy Pelosi being involved in the staged coup attempt.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” he said in CBS interview.
“When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president.I can’t even say how old I am — it’s hard for me to get out of my mouth,” he added.
The statement aligns with journalist Seymour Hersh’s report, which claimed that Barack Obama threatened Joe Biden with the 25th Amendment, asserting that he had “Kamala’s approval” to remove him from the race, Collin Rugg said in a post on X.
“Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment,'” a senior Washington official told Hersh, according to Collin Rugg.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” he said in CBS interview.
“When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president.I can’t even say how old I am — it’s hard for me to get out of my mouth,” he added.
The statement aligns with journalist Seymour Hersh’s report, which claimed that Barack Obama threatened Joe Biden with the 25th Amendment, asserting that he had “Kamala’s approval” to remove him from the race, Collin Rugg said in a post on X.
“Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment,'” a senior Washington official told Hersh, according to Collin Rugg.
Biden has been vocal about his support for Harris and had said, “Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz are running a campaign on behalf of all Americans. And when they’re elected, they will govern on behalf of all Americans.”
Expressing his doubts about peaceful transfer of power in case Trump loses, Biden said, “If Trump loses, I’m not confident at all. He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it, all the stuff about, ‘If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have to be a stolen election.'”
“Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes, or putting people in place in states that they’re going to count the votes, right?,” he added.