Biden Trash-Talks Tapper and Trump — Says ‘I Can Beat the Hell Out of’ Book Authors
Former President Joe Biden came out swinging against Jake Tapper, President Donald Trump, and Democratic critics in a feisty post-speech scrum with reporters in which he repeatedly talked about doling out beatings.
On Friday morning, Biden gave a speech in Delaware that wrapped up with some verbal fireworks, which continued when reporters asked him about the blizzard of attacks brought on by intense coverage of the book Tapper co-authored with Alex Thompson, Original Sin.
Biden told reporters he could “beat the hell out of both” Tapper and Thompson, said his Democratic critics didn’t run against him because they knew he’d have beaten them, and roasted Trump as he responded to questions.
The exchange was aired on Friday’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics:
REPORTER: I fell like everybody didn’t know what to expect of you today and then you get here and you’re speaking powerfully, you look good you’re confident.
What do you say all those people don’t don’t count you out?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, I say lots of luck on your senior year.
REPORTER: What has this been like for your family? Obviously, this is also an emotional time. This is the 10-year anniversary of your son Bo’s passing. You received this diagnosis just two weeks before that.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, we’re all optimistic about the diagnosis. Matter of fact, one of the leading surgeons in the world was working with me, and he had diagnosed with the same exact thing 32 years ago. He’s alive and well and doing very well. So we’re optimistic. We’re optimistic.
REPORTER: And there’s also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: You can see that I’m mentally incompetent and I can’t walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them!
REPORTER: Do you want to reply to any of those reports and also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Why didn’t they run against me then? Because I’d have beaten them!
REPORTER: Do you have any regrets?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, I don’t have any regrets. Look, there’s a, we have a, there’s a lot going on, and I think we’re in a really difficult moment, not only in American history, but in world history.
I think we’re at one of those inflection points in history, where the decisions we make in the next little bit are going to determine what things look like for the next 20 years. I’ve been talking about that for a long time.
I’m very proud, I’ll put my record as president against any president at all. If you notice the 12, 10 presidential historians rated me pretty good up on that list, and the guy I ran against they rate him the last. So we’ll see. Watch me!
Watch above via CNN’s Inside Politics.
