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Omaha Steve

(106,437 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:38 PM Jan 2025

Biden casts doubt on his fitness to serve another four years days before term ends [View all]

Source: AP

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Updated 12:06 PM CST, January 8, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, in a new interview days before he leaves office, cast doubt on his fitness to serve another four years even as he maintained that he could have won election to a second term.

The outgoing Democratic president also told USA Today in the interview published Wednesday that he tried during his Oval Office meeting with President-elect Donald Trump to discourage the Republican from going after his political opponents, as he has said he would. And Biden said he had not decided whether to issue sweeping pardons to preemptively protect those individuals from any possible retribution by Trump or the incoming administration.

“I don’t know,” Biden responded when USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page asked if he would’ve had the vigor to serve another four years in office. Biden and Page sat down at the White House on Sunday for the president’s rare interview with a print publication.

Biden, 82, talks about how he didn’t intend to run for president in 2020, but says that when Trump sought reelection last year, “I really thought I had the best chance of beating him. But I also wasn’t looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-pardon-fitness-reelection-interview-eb84cf6c3e201fa6100419b9fe616f8a

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When will Trump admit . . . AverageOldGuy Jan 2025 #1
Yep. Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #2
Yep what? KPN Jan 2025 #11
If he Rebl2 Jan 2025 #3
Yup. Then we could have had a proper primary n/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 2025 #4
He has been a fantastic president. LisaM Jan 2025 #20
That headline is very misleading (not the OP's headline). LisaM Jan 2025 #5
Perzactly. Tactical Peek Jan 2025 #6
fascist complicit media part 3,334,991 LymphocyteLover Jan 2025 #16
Some here spoke up about it in 2022 and 2023 Polybius Jan 2025 #14
I am not sure why we should be worried about Biden's fitness LisaL Jan 2025 #7
Exactly AZ8theist Jan 2025 #13
It catches up to all of us. republianmushroom Jan 2025 #8
Post removed Post removed Jan 2025 #9
BIDEN COUGHS. REPORTER CALLS 911 AND PRIEST FOR LAST RITES. usonian Jan 2025 #10
Biden has done amazing work in this past 8 months. delisen Jan 2025 #12
"I also wasn't looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old." LudwigPastorius Jan 2025 #15
Jan. 21, 2021 would have been even better. maxsolomon Jan 2025 #22
I'd much prefer Joe with no vigor to Trump HereForTheParty Jan 2025 #17
He also said he could have won inwiththenew Jan 2025 #18
Link to full interview ificandream Jan 2025 #19
The media keep doing this to Biden but they NEVER do it to Trump alarimer Jan 2025 #21
Reputable news organizations don't get access to MFer. maxsolomon Jan 2025 #23
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