Trump slams Obama over new Biden sit-down video

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President Donald Trump is incensed over the new campaign video from Joe Biden that features a sit-down with the former president, Barack Obama. 

“Obama, who wouldn’t even endorse Biden until everyone else was out of the primaries (and even then waited a long time!), is now making a commercial of support,” Trump tweeted. 

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He then claimed he wouldn’t have been President if not for them. “They did a terrible job!” Trump said.

The video, A Socially Distanced Conversation: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, opens with Joe Biden, former VP to Obama, asking, “Can you imagine standing up when you were President and saying, ‘it’s not my responsibility, I take no responsibility?’ I’m mean, literally.” 

“Those words didn’t come out of our mouths,” Obama replied. 

Biden then says that he can’t understand President Trump’s lack of understanding of “what people are going through.” 

The question was related to President Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which Obama has previously criticized. 

“You and I had experience dealing with health crises, public health crises, and in each instance what you and I understood, and why I have so much confidence that you’re going to be able to deal with COVID in the way that other countries with our kinds of resources are dealing with it right now, which is smartly—I have confidence you’re going to actually listen to the experts,” Obama told Biden. 

“When we left office, you had set up a pandemic office within the White House,” Biden said. “We had 44 people in China.” 

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“The goal was to create an early-warning system around the world, by creating international cooperation.” Obama said, “So that when you saw it coming, you had time to prepare. I know how deeply you care about American families. And any loss of life that is preventable, it’s your job to try to prevent it.” 

The Trump administration disbanded the National Security Council’s office which oversaw responses to pandemics in 2018. 

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