Biden says he encouraged generals and ‘members of the armed services’ to stay on for Trump administration
by Naomi Lim
| September 22, 2019 07:34 PM
The Obama administration urged military officials to remain in uniform for incoming President Trump, according to Joe Biden.
"We encouraged a lot of people to stay in the administration who weren’t really so excited about staying. Generals, particularly. Members of the armed services. Because we knew the man who was coming in had no experience, and to be very blunt about it — it’s not a criticism — we knew that he didn’t expect to win and he had not prepared for what to do if he won,†the former vice president said late Saturday, according to a pool report.
Biden, whose front-runner status for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is being eroded by rivals like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, made the comments at a fundraiser in Van Meter, Iowa. After spending the latter part of the week addressing claims that Trump implored Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and investigate Hunter Biden's ties to an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch, Joe Biden told donors the White House was missing "a sense of decency" and talented staff.
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