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Former US President Barack Obama has ruled out accepting a possible position in the future administration of Joe Biden, considering that the winner of the presidential election does not need his advice, but has offered to “help him in any way he can.”
In an interview with the US television channel CBS, broadcast on Sunday, the former US president jokingly said that his wife, Michelle Obama, would leave him if she accepted a position in the future administration.
“There are things that I would not do, because Michelle would not let me. Yes, she would say ‘What? What are you going to do? ‘”Barack Obama said, thus answering the question about a possible government position.
From Obama’s perspective, the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, who was his vice president (2009-2017), “does not need” his advice.
“I will help you in any way I can. Now, I don’t plan on suddenly working on the White House team or anything, “Obama said.
The CBS interview, which is Obama’s first to air since media projections made Biden the winner in the presidential election against incumbent President Donald Trump on November 7, was recorded last Wednesday.
On the current situation in the United States of America and the fact that Trump did not accept his electoral defeat, while promoting conspiracy theories about alleged electoral fraud, the former American president expressed his disappointment with the role played by some Republican legislators.
Asked about the 72 million voters who voted for Trump, the first African-American president in the history of the United States indicated that this figure shows that the country remains “deeply divided.”
“The strength of this alternative point of view is present in the media that these voters consume, it carries a lot of weight,” Obama said, admitting that this situation worries him.
“It is very difficult for our democracy to work if we are operating on two different factual bases,” Obama said.
Regarding the transition of power in the presidency, which was not expected to be peaceful, Obama stressed that “Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States of America, Kamala Harris will be the next vice president”, because “there is no legal basis” for the Trump accusations on the results of the presidential elections.
Regarding the support that the outgoing president had from members of the Republican Party, who did not question the complaints without evidence that there was electoral fraud, the former US president argued that “it was disappointing, but it was normal in the last four years.” .
“Obviously, they don’t believe there is fraud, because they didn’t say anything for the first two days, but there is a loss in that,” Obama said, emphasizing that “the peaceful transition of power, the notion that anyone elected to office, She is a dog savior or president, she serves the people ”, because“ it is a temporary job ”.
The outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, admitted today the victory of the Democratic rival Joe Biden in the elections of November 3, but insisted, without providing evidence, that there was fraud.
“He won because the elections were fraudulent. No observer votes were allowed, the votes were counted by a radical left private company Dominion, which has a bad reputation and a deceptive team that did not even qualify to operate in Texas (where I won with a big advantage), and the organs false and silent communication, and much more! “Trump wrote on his Twitter account.
His publication was marked by that social network with the phrase “this statement on electoral fraud is controversial.”
