{"id":8984,"date":"2025-05-08T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/biden-takes-responsibility-for-trumps-victory-i-was-in-charge-and-he-won\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:02:17","slug":"biden-takes-responsibility-for-trumps-victory-i-was-in-charge-and-he-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/biden-takes-responsibility-for-trumps-victory-i-was-in-charge-and-he-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden takes responsibility for Trump&#8217;s victory: &#8216;I was in charge and he won&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former President Joe Biden said he takes \u201cresponsibility\u201d for Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House and accused his successor of failing to protect the interests of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting for his first live television interview since leaving office, Biden was asked on \u201cThe View\u201d if he felt responsible for Trump\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I do, because, look, I was in charge and he won, so I take responsibility,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Offering an assessment of Trump&#8217;s return to power, Biden said his successor \u201chas done, quite frankly, a very poor job in the interest of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, you know, the greatest alliance in the history of the world is NATO, not a joke, and he&#8217;s blown it up,\u201d he said. \u201cHe&#8217;s had the worst 100 days any president has ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Joe Biden said he takes \u201cresponsibility\u201d for Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House and accused his successor of failing to protect the interests of the country. Sitting for his first live television interview since leaving office, Biden was asked on \u201cThe View\u201d if he felt responsible for Trump\u2019s victory. \u201cYes, I do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}