John Kerry Defends Biden And Calls Out The Media For Piling On

Former Sec. of State John Kerry, who served as President Biden's climate envoy, defended Biden and his presidency while calling out the media for piling on.

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry spoke out and defended President Biden during a recent interview on CNN’s Amanpour.

When asked about what he thought about accusations of a Biden mental decline, Kerry said:

  I think the president did what he should have done, which is in terms of being president, making he was a tough task master.

He demanded precision and answers and he made very tough decisions. And I think most people would say if you measure him against the, recent history of the United States, his legislative record was better than any president since Lyndon Johnson. So I think, moreover, I would say to you that I followed some of this chatter on the issue.

Prostate cancer. I had prostate cancer. I literally had it. I learned I had it one week after I had announced I was gonna run for president. And I opted to have an operation back then. I was younger than I am today and younger than President Biden. After a certain age, many doctors, almost all doctors, don't necessarily demand testing because usually it's a slow-moving cancer, and they tell you that you'll probably die of something else. Depending on what age you have it at. I don't know what preceded or what the decisions were. I. But I can tell you that President Biden, while his gait and walking facility may have somewhat changed as he went through the presidency, he had total full faculty to make all the decisions necessary as president.

And he led he, he did an enormous amount to pull our nation out of COVID. He did an enormous amount to rebuild the Atlantic. Conference, the NATO alliance as an entity, but also to make clear the values and the principles, which we are all have really relied on to guide the world since World War II when America came out of its isolationism and really was the leader. I think that the president understood that and understood that alliance.

So look, I think there's been a certain amount of piling on and I think they ought to allow the president to have his privacy as he deals with a very tough diagnosis, which he himself has acknowledged.

Everybody knows there are clear treatments for this now. Yes. And I wish the president all the strength and. All the best in the world.

Audio of Kerry:

There has not been a single example of a decision made or failure by Biden to do his job as president.

Many Americans want more out of Democrats than fighting Trump. They also want Democrats to stand up for what they believe in, and not throw beloved members of the party, like Joe Biden, to the media wolves.

Democrats have done a good job shutting down the media chatter, but Kerry gave the sort of vocal defense of Biden and his administration that many Americans have been looking for.

It does Democrats no good to litigate the past while Trump is doing so much damage in the present, but when given the opportunity, it is wrong for Democrats to let these attacks slide.

Kerry handled it the right way, and it wouldn’t hurt Democrats to own some of the good things that Joe Biden accomplished as president.