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Joe Biden lashed out at President Trump during a Democrat gala in Omaha, saying the US is going through a “very, very dark moment.” The former president also said Trump “embarrasses us as a nation.”
Speaking at a Nebraska Democratic Party fund-raising dinner, the former president condemned his successor for “deliberately making hunger worse for America” and accused him of taking a “wrecking ball” to the White House, the Constitution and the rule of law, at the same time as enriching his own family.
“The American people are sending a message, are sending the message—message to Trump and to his crowd,” Mr. Biden said.
“I just want you to know, you work for us, Mr. President. We don’t work for you.”
He reserved his harshest criticism for President Trump’s cuts to healthcare. Biden is currently undergoing treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.
“I think it’s immoral, it’s un-American, it’s flat out wrong. You have to ask yourself: Why? Why in God’s name are they doing this? Why? Well, I’ll tell you why. They give away an additional $4 trillion in tax breaks to the benefit of the wealthiest people in America.”
The speech was Biden’s first overt political intervention since leaving the White House in January.
Biden went on to say that America was in a difficult position, but hailed Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York election as “something very special.”
“Folks, look, this isn’t a golden age,” Mr. Biden said.
“The fact of the matter is that it is a very, very dark moment. But you know, the fact of the matter is, we’re in a situation where we had something very special happen just last Tuesday.”
Joe Biden has been largely absent from the spotlight since leaving the White House. In May, he sat for an interview with ABC’s “The View” in which he attempted to counter damning revelations about his physical and mental decline during his presidency.
In that same month, it was announced he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, which raised further questions about his fitness to be commander-in-chief. Medical experts said it was impossible Biden developed the cancer after leaving the White House, and asked whether physicians knew while he was still president and whether the diagnosis was hidden from the public.
Last month, he had surgery to remove lesions from his forehead and began radiation therapy at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia.
