‘You’re Doing a Great Job!’ Biden Heaps Praise on Anti-Trump Host — Trashes Trump In New Interview

Tommy ChristopherDec 2nd, 2023, 11:06 am

President Joe Biden praised anti-Trump podcast host Ben Meiselas and torched former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy in a new interview.

Meiselas is the co-founder of the anti-Trump Meidas Touch PAC, — which specialized in particularly brutal viral ads during the 2020 campaign —and podcast host for MeidasTouch Network. This week, he scored an exclusive interview with the president while Biden was in Colorado for several events — a huge get for any media outlet.

President Biden opened up the interview by praising MeidasTouch and telling Meiselas “sometimes the best politics is truth”:

BEN MEISELAS: I’m Ben Meiselas from the Meidas Touch Network. We are joined by President Joe Biden. Mr. President, it is such an honor.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, you’re doing a great job! You know, sometimes the best politics is truth. You’re telling the truth.

BEN MEISELAS: “The truth is golden” is our slogan.

Later in the interview, Meiselas asked the president for a special message to his viewers. The president took aim at Trump in his response:

BEN MEISELAS: So the MeidasTouch, supporters of, people who watch our network call themselves the Meidas Mighty. We at the MeidasTouch Network, say that we’re unapologetically pro-democracy. What’s your message to the Meidas mighty out there and those watching right now who fear for our democracy and who just care about our democracy?

PRESIDENT BIDEN: You know, I made a speech in Independence Hall saying that our democracy is at risk or even oppressive. What are you talking about? Well, guess what? The vast majority American people thought it was too. The idea that we have a former president who may be the nominee saying that he thinks we should be able to essentially walk away from the Constitution. The things they’re saying are just off the wall and it’s a we better step.

Well, I taught at University of Pennsylvania for four years, and I also taught at a law school. And the idea that democracy is inevitable, it’s just not true. It’s under siege. We have to put a stamp of democracy in everything we do.

BEN MEISELAS: Absolutely. And GDP was revised up to 5.2%.