The details are not "relevant"

The day before Joe Biden was about to sit down The show late For his first late interview as the official presidential candidate of 2020, Stephen Colbert downplayed his recent "gaffe" blending several war stories into a single story of heroism that has been deceived in almost every details, including the position he elected at the time.

"Listen, when you hear that, there's really only one thing to say about Joe Biden," Colbert said on Tuesday. "He would be a much better president than Donald Trump."

The host gave Biden a chance to defend himself on Wednesday's show.

"You want to talk about problems, but a lot of people want to talk about your gaffes," said Colbert, noting that his guest was sometimes referred to as "goof machine". After listing some of Biden's factual errors in recent weeks, it quickly became apparent that he was preparing the candidate for a joke.

"Look, why I came to Jimmy Kimmel's show …" Biden said to the audience's encouragement and Colbert's laughter.

When asked if it was "fair" to criticize his blunders, Biden replied, "I think it's just wrong to take a political personality for anything" . But he then defended himself by adding, "All the blunders I've made, and I've made blunders like all the politicians I know have been, not on the bottom issue." . "

Speaking specifically to the controversial history of Afghanistan, Biden said: "I did not talk about myself, I praised the value of all those people I visited, plus 20 times in Afghanistan and Iraq, and I looked at these people and I watched what they did. "

For the most part, he explained that it was more about feeling than about details. Colbert agreed that this type of "empathy" is something "that we are in dire need of right now."

"Look, it's a different thing to say, when you talk about honoring bravery or sacrifice or what others have experienced, and the essence of that is absolutely true," said Biden. "The fact of saying that I was vice president – well, in one case I was vice president elected, in the other I was senator." I'm not sure it's relevant. "

Then comes the pivot to Trump: "But I'm not mistaken, you have to lock the children in cages on the border."