Joe Biden reflected again on fighting Donald Trump on the playground in an interview with Howard Stern that took the president through family tragedies, morbid thoughts and memories of his time as a young widower in the Senate, where his love life became a “celebrity topic.” .’
Biden said he would be “happy” to meet Trump on the debate stage. after casting doubt on the idea during a rare conversation with Stern on his Sirius XM that lasted more than an hour and included highlights drawn from Biden’s action-packed 81-year life story.
‘Trump makes fun of me, right?’ Biden told Stern. “This is the kind of person I really wish had come to the neighborhood…” he said, not finishing his thought.
Stern asked a series of heartbreaking questions about the car accident involving Biden’s first wife, Neilia, and their one-year-old daughter, Naomi. But things soon moved on to the period when Biden was romantically available and women took notice.
President Joe Biden gave an hour-long interview to Howard Stern on Sirius XM, talking about his youth and career in politics, including his time as a single senator.
“They put me on the list of the ten most eligible bachelors,” he told Stern, who noted that he was a United States senator at the time.
‘And a lot of lovely women, but women, would send very lewd photographs and I would just hand them over to the Secret Service. And I thought someone would think I was…’ she said, without clarifying why the agency that handles presidential security would be involved.
He decided to end his romantic activities.
“And I just gave up,” Biden said. Then, ‘I got a call from my brother. I have a little girl here in Delaware: Jill is nine years younger than me. She said you will love her. “She doesn’t like politics,” he continued, describing the events that set up her second marriage.
It was one of the few times their conversation reached the territory where Stern earned his reputation as a radio host. For much of the interview, Stern asked a series of gentle biographical questions in an interview that culminated with the host sharing his own exasperation about how people could vote for someone who told a Georgia election official to “find 11,780” votes. .
Biden said women sent him “lewd” photos during the time he was single after the death of his first wife, Nelia. He married Jill Tracy Jacobs (now first lady Jill Biden) in 1977.
Biden said he would be “happy” to debate Donald Trump
Biden recounted his time working as a lifeguard in a predominantly black Delaware neighborhood.
Biden reported having rescued six people from distress, without boasting about his efforts.
—Did you ever save someone’s life when you were a lifeguard? she asked.
“Half a dozen times,” Biden responded.
Stern was ready to see more on the big screen and repeatedly expressed his amazement at what Biden had been through.
‘It’s very important. We should highlight that in the movie of your life,’ Stern advised.
The two men spoke about the dark times after the car accident tragedy.
“You don’t have to be crazy to commit suicide,” he said. ‘
‘I do not drink. That is not a virtue. I just never drank. And I used to sit there and think, I think I’ll get a bottle of whiskey out. We always had liquor in the house… and I was just going to drink and get drunk and I never dared do it. And in fact I thought that you don’t have to be crazy to commit suicide. If you’ve been to the top of a mountain, you think you’ll never be there again. And for a brief moment I thought maybe I should go to the Delaware Memorial Bridge and jump. but I had two children.’
Biden also regaled Stern with stories about his high school football career.
You were like the front row guy. “You were the one who caught the ball,” Stern told him.
‘State scoring runner-up! “What the hell?” Biden continued. “Wow,” said Stern.
Stern tried to elicit comments from Biden about the Supreme Court, whose conservative rulings have shaped electoral politics, even as he said the Violence Against Women Act he helped write was under threat.
“I have to be careful what I say about the court,” Biden said, calling the law one of his “proudest accomplishments.”
It was Stern who recalled the time Senate Republicans, led by Biden’s friend Sen. Mitch McConnell, thwarted Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
‘These maniacs in the Sen said no way. And now we have a Supreme Court that is crazy,” Stern said.
‘It’s a really conservative court. Perhaps the most conservative court in modern history,” Biden said.
Stern, who has interviewed Trump in the past, did not enter the Stormy Daniels trial taking place in her home state of New York. But she failed in the Jan. 6 charges against Trump.
‘What are we debating? A man picked up the phone and meant to falsify the election. Give me 11,000 votes. I don’t know how any American loves this country. That’s the end of the debate. You can’t run if you want to rig an election.
Biden criticized Trump’s inaction in the White House during the Capitol riot. He was abandoned. He was almost criminal,” he said.
In his commentary on the Trump debate, Biden went beyond previous coverage.
‘I am, somewhere I don’t know when. “I’m happy to debate him,” he told Stern.
In March, Biden had hedged, saying in March that “it depends on his behavior.”
‘Okay, let’s set it up!’ Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita posted shortly after the comment.