Joe Biden has hired Democratic operative to help “defend his reputation” following his effective removal from office.
According to a report from Politico, Biden has hired his former deputy press secretary and Defense Department spokesperson to help him “transition” into life outside the Oval Office and to help “burnish his legacy at a time when many in his party want him to exit the stage.”
The report explains:
In a sign of Biden’s intent to remain engaged publicly, his inner circle tapped Chris Meagher, a former Biden deputy press secretary and Defense Department spokesperson, to help him transition past the first 100 days of the Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the hire and granted anonymity to speak freely.
Meagher, who has worked for former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, played an instrumental role in booking Biden’s appearance on The View on Thursday, the people said, his first live interview since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
It is a critical time for Biden, who has come under heavy criticism from Democrats for staying in the presidential race as long as he did last year.
Among the tasks Meagher wil be responsible for overseeing include the release of Biden’s latest autobiography and the construction of a presidential library and foundation.
While some Democrats still hold Old Joe in high regard, many also blame him for Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election after he refused to drop out the race until four months before the election.
During an appearance on The View on Wednesday, Biden mumbled incoherently before repeating his belief that he would have defeated Trump if he had been allwoed to stay in the race.
He also claimed that Donald Trump had suffered “the worst hundred days any president has ever had.”
NEW: Joe Biden claims he would’ve beaten Trump again.
Delusion is a hell of a drug.
“Yeah, he got 7 million fewer votes than I got.”
“A lot of people didn’t show up.”
“Toss up states were very close.”
“On polling numbers… he’s had the worst 100 days any president has ever… pic.twitter.com/hubPdHNLVZ
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) May 8, 2025
In an interview with BBC this week, Biden also insisted that it would not have mattered had he left the race earlier.
“I don’t think it would have mattered. We left at a time when we had a good candidate, she was fully funded, and what happened was I had become–.”
“What we had set out to do, no one thought we could do. And I’d become so successful on our agenda, it was hard to say, ‘Now I’m gonna stop now.’”
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Upon leaving office in January, Biden had a 39 percent approval rating, which remains one of the lowest for an outgoing president in modern American history.
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