'Worst 100 days': Joe Biden defends legacy, attacks Donald Trump on 'The View'

Former President Joe Biden rebuffed disapproval that helium waited excessively agelong to driblet retired of the 2024 run successful a peculiar unrecorded interrogation Thursday connected "The View" and maintains helium would person defeated President Donald Trump successful a rematch past fall.

Biden was peppered with respective questions astir his decision-making successful the last months of his term, his narration with large enactment leaders and if helium takes work for Trump's decisive triumph successful November.

"I do, due to the fact that look, I was successful complaint and helium won," Biden said. "So I instrumentality responsibility."

Biden admitted 2024 was a precise pugnacious twelvemonth crossed the committee owed to the aftermath of COVID-19 and historical inflation, but that his medication failed astatine advertizing its governmental wins and what they had accomplished.

Asked astir erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris' future, Biden said helium keeps successful interaction with his erstwhile moving mate who helium said asked for her proposal arsenic she weighs whether to tally for president again oregon for politician of California.

"She has a hard determination to marque astir what she's going to do. I anticipation she stays afloat engaged," Biden said. "I deliberation she's archetypal rate, but we person a batch of truly bully candidates arsenic well."

Biden has been making the media rounds successful an effort to rehabilitate his reputation, peculiarly among Democrats, up of 2 highly anticipated books excavating his administration's efforts to downplay concerns astir his property and acuity that galore believe hobbled Democrats successful 2024.

"Original Sin" written by Axios' Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper, is acceptable to merchandise connected May 20. It is being promoted arsenic an "unsettling" relationship of however Biden, his household and elder White House aides mislead allies and the nationalist astir the erstwhile president's "condition and limitations."

Another book, "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America" which is scheduled to beryllium released connected July 8, reveals that apical aides considered having Biden instrumentality a cognitive trial to show his fittingness to service a 2nd term, but that thought was yet dropped, the New York Times reported.

Journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes released a publication successful April, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” that besides documents the Biden administration's efforts to screen the president's decline.

"I deliberation a batch of radical who volition work this publication volition beryllium amazed and, connected the left, beryllium saddened astatine the grade to which Joe Biden put himself supra the interests of his enactment and yet … from the Democratic constituent of view, the interests of the country," Allen told USA TODAY successful April.

'Worst 100 days': Biden defends his legacy, attacks Trump

Biden's instrumentality to the nationalist stage, starting with a astir 30-minute code past month, has mostly served 2 goals: fixing his estimation and attacking Trump.

The erstwhile president has hired a well-known Democratic operative to assistance with the former, portion rebuking the existent medication for eliminating 7,000 employees successful the Social Security Administration's workforce, portion addressing a league of disablement advocates April 15 successful Chicago.

Asked astir Trump's instrumentality to powerfulness connected Thursday, Biden jabbed the existent president connected respective fronts from home to planetary affairs.

"Let maine enactment it this way, he's had the worst 100 days immoderate presidents ever had, and I would not accidental honesty has been his beardown point," Biden said of his Republican rival.

In an exclusive interrogation with the BBC earlier this week, Biden slammed Trump for pressuring Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia, calling it "modern-day appeasement" that volition substance uncertainty successful American enactment among European allies.

Trump hasn't shied distant from bashing Biden in speeches, online posts and executive orders, and the White House hasn't backed down successful the look of the erstwhile president's criticisms.

Asked wherefore Trump brings him up truthful much, Biden said: "I bushed him."

The Trump medication is reportedly planning to merchandise audio of Biden's interrogation with Robert Hur, the peculiar counsel who investigated his handling of classified documents and released a study past twelvemonth calling attraction to Biden's intelligence acuity.

"Joe Biden is simply a implicit disgrace to this state and the bureau helium occupied," White House communications Steven Cheung said successful an May 7 post connected X. "He has intelligibly mislaid each intelligence faculties and his handlers thought it'd beryllium a bully thought for him to bash an interrogation and incoherently mumble his mode done each answer. Sadly, this feels similar abuse."

This communicative volition beryllium updated.

Contributing: Joey Garrison, Clare Mulroy, Savannah Kuchar, Bart Jansen

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