Gov. Wes Moore Claims He Was Privately Telling Biden ‘The Truth’ at the Very Same Time He Publicly Insisted Biden Should Stay in Race

A Democratic governor who was one of President Joe Biden’s most vocal defenders — even as calls grew for him to withdraw from the 2024 election — now claims he was privately telling Biden “the truth” about his standing in the race.

In a Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week, Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) said that while he publicly insisted Biden should stay in, he was privately telling the president something different.

“I had private conversations with the – with the president,” Moore told ABC’s Martha Raddatz. “And I’m a big believer that when you care about somebody you tell them the truth. And I had private conversations where I was telling the president the truth. I also know that the president deserved better than people who were running around him and going into public and demanding that the president of the United States step down … And so I knew that if he said that he was going to continue pushing forward, that I was going to stand with him.”

While other Democratic leaders made vague comments when confronted about whether Biden should stay in the race, Moore was far more publicly supportive of the president.

“Joe Biden is not going to take himself out of this race – nor should he,” Moore said, in a June 30 interview on CBS.

Raddatz pressed Moore about the striking contradiction between his public and private comments.

“You said you told him the truth,” Raddatz said. “What was the truth?”

“Well, I think the truth [was] that there are real concerns,” Moore said. “There are real concerns that I know that people had felt, but also that people were telling me that they had felt. I also know that I’m a loyalty person. And I believe that you can have proper conversations and tell people the truth and be able to tell them what you’re hearing without also then turning around and publicly then trying to embarrass them.”

Watch above, via ABC.