Chuck Todd has dismissed former President Joe Biden’s reputation as an “incredible family man,” saying it’s “all bullshit” — and revealed he got “incredibly angry” with the ex-commander in chief when learning about his family circumstances just before he jumped into the 2020 presidential race.
Joining Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt on his The Warning podcast this week, Todd ripped into Biden as he argued it’s “time” for the Democratic Party to move on from longtime leaders like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place, right? Number one, he shouldn’t have run for president,” Todd said.
Todd, the former Meet the Press moderator, argued Biden had no business running for president in 2020 because he had multiple family members facing serious personal struggles, including his son Hunter Biden, who received a controversial pardon from his dad after being convicted on gun and tax charges related to his days struggling with drug addiction.
“I completely got so angry at Joe Biden, the man, when I read the transcript of the Hunter Biden trial and when I realized that not one, not two, but three Biden children — and I count Beau’s widow — were all dealing with drug problems in 2018, and Joe Biden said, ‘Now’s a perfect time to run for president because who cares about our family,’” Todd said.
He added that Biden built a “bullshit” mythology around his family man image, but he’s really a “craven political animal that was desperate.”
Todd said:
“I have to tell you something about Joe Biden. There’s this mythology about Joe Biden, that the man cared so much, it’s all bullshit. This man supposedly cared so much about his family that he commuted every day. Guess what? This man cared so much about his political career that he commuted every day. I could take the same fact and he created a myth, he did it for 40 years, God bless him, that he was this incredible family man, and instead, what he really was, was a craven political animal that was desperate, that considered a run for president every four years that he was eligible.”
Watch above via The Warning podcast.