President Biden vented his frustration at NBC anchor Lester Holt during an interview Monday. At one point, he said: “What’s with you guys? Come on, man!” as he stood by the attack on former President Donald Trump.
President Joe Biden, 81, was easily angered at Holt’s comments surrounding the June 27 debate and the former President’s VP nominee, JD Vance.
“Are you seeing what [viewers] saw, which was moments of frankly, that appeared to be — you appeared to be confused?” Holt asked the president.
“Lester, look, why don’t you guys ever talk about the 18, the 28 lies (Trump) told? Where are you on this? Why didn’t the press ever talk about that? Twenty-eight times it’s confirmed he lied in that debate,” Biden exclaimed.
“Seriously, you won’t answer the question, but why didn’t the press talk about all the lies he told? I haven’t heard anything about that.”
When Holt protested, “We have reported many of the issues,” Biden snapped back.
“No you haven’t! No you haven’t! God love you,” fumed Biden — who falsely claimed at the debate that no troops died on his watch and confusingly said he “finally beat Medicare.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Holt pressed Biden on his weeks-long barrage against Trump and decision to use a rare Oval Office address that same Sunday night to appeal for Americans to “lower the temperature” following Trump’s assassination attempt.
“Look, what I’m turning down — we have to stop the whole notion that there are certain things that are contrary to our democracy that we’re for. the idea of saying that you, that I didn’t win the election when every court in the land… including the conservative Supreme Court said we won, the idea of having a loyalty pledge from all of the folks,” he said, before trailing off.
When Holt pressed Biden on whether he would commit to another debate with Trump, so as not to prove his mental acuity out of the second and final scheduled form, the President grew flustered.
In the 30-minute interview, Biden also admitted to his misuse of the word “bullseye” in relation to keeping an eye on Trump.
“It was a mistake to use the wor — I didn’t say crosshairs, I meant bullseye, I meant focus on him, focus on what he’s doing, focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told in the debate” Biden said.
Later in the interview, Biden also proceeded to criticize the former President’s VP nominee, JD Vance.
“It’s not unusual, He’s going to surround himself with people who agree completely with him, whose voting record supported him,” Biden said in the interview — before later dissing Vance to reporters as “a clone of Trump on the issues.”
