United States: Barack Obama ruled out a possible position in the Joe Biden administration because “Michelle would leave me”

Former President of the United States, Barack Obama (2009-2017) excluded from accepting a hypothetical position in the future government to train its former vice president, Joe Biden, after winning the election on Nov. 3 and joking, “Michelle would give up on me,” in a CBS interview that aired this Sunday.

Biden “doesn’t need my advice, and I will help you in any way I can. Now, I don’t plan on suddenly working on White House staff or something, “said Obama, to whom the CBS interviewer asked,” No government positions for you?

And the ex-president replied: “There are things I wouldn’t do because Michelle (his wife) would leave me. Yes, I would say “What? What are you going to do? He joked.

The interview, which is the first Obama to air since November 7 media projections, gave Biden the winner of the presidential election against the now incumbent President Donald Trump, who has yet to accept his decision. defeat. , it was recorded last Wednesday.

Obama is promoting the first volume of his presidential memoir, “A Promised Land,” which goes on sale Tuesday.

On the current situation in the country and the fact that Trump does not accept his electoral defeat, while promoting conspiracy theories about alleged election fraud, Obama he was dissapointed for the role played by some Republican lawmakers.

Asked by the interviewer what the fact that 72 million voters voted for Trump told him, the first African-American president in US history stressed that it shows the country is still “deeply divided”.

The transition

“The power from this alternative point of view is present in the media that these voters consume, it carries a lot of weight,” he said.

And he admitted that he worried about it. “It is very difficult for our democracy to function if we are operating on two different factual bases,” said Obama; to what the interviewer commented it seems that there will be no peaceful transition of power and he recalled how his ruling predecessor, Republican George W. Bush (2001-2009), and late Conservative lawmaker John McCain congratulated him on his arrival at the White House.

“Couldn’t be sweeter”, recalled Obama, who however decided that “Joe Biden will be the next American president, Kamala Harris will be the next vice-president. There is no legal basis” to the allegations of Trump.

In this regard, he was asked about the support the outgoing president is getting from members of the Republican Party, who do not challenge his accusations without proof of electoral fraud.

“And it was disappointing Obama emphasized, but it has been normal for the past four years. Obviously, they don’t think there was fraud because they didn’t say anything for the first couple of days, but it is wrong with that because what is happening is that the peaceful transition of power, the idea that any of us who are elected to power, Whether you are a dog rescuer or president, you are serving the people. It’s temporary work ”.

Throughout the interview, Obama recalled moments of his presidency and when he left the White House in January 2017.

“At the end of my presidency, two things happened: One was, objectively, that he had more time “, said the ex-president.

“But the second,” he stressed, “is that (Michelle) was able to let go of some of the stress she was feeling from having to do everything right all the time. I was watched all the time. “

“You know, she breathed in relief after holding it (breath) for almost ten years at that time,” Obama said.

Source: EFE

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