Former President Joe Biden claimed that world leaders and U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are reaching out to him for advice and to ask him to remain active in politics amid the divisive second term of his successor, President Donald Trump.
Biden is still involved in politics but now remains behind the scenes, he told the Society for Human Resource Management in San Diego on Wednesday after being asked how he’s filling his “newfound time” since leaving office.
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“I stayed engaged because I really cared about what I was doing. Many things I worked so damn hard [on], that I thought I had changed the country, are changing so rapidly,” Biden said, a reference to Trump’s ongoing bid to gut most of his policy achievements.
Biden later revealed, “I’m getting calls. I’m not going to go into it, I can’t. From a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged. I’m not, but I’m giving advice. Because things are different. You know, I often ask the question, if America doesn’t lead the world, who can? Not a joke. Not because of power. Who could put it together? And mistakes, today, have significantly greater consequences than they did 50 years ago.”
“How can you just walk away?” Biden asked. “You don’t see me out there publicly doing a lot of this. But I’m also dealing with a lot of Democrats and Republican colleagues calling me, wanting to talk, not because they think I have the answer, just to bounce things off me.
“I’m not looking” for it, he added. “They asked to see me, I see them.”
Biden, who in May revealed he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, also said he’s “working like hell” to write a new, 500-page memoir documenting his presidency.
“They want me to focus just on the four years and talk about what happened and how it impacted on the world and/or if it did.”
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