Biden hires veteran Democrat communicator as former president aims to defend tarnished reputation

As Joe Biden faces incoming occurrence not lone from President Donald Trump but besides chap Democrats, the erstwhile president is bringing connected committee a seasoned strategist and communicator to assistance furbish his estimation and legacy.

The erstwhile president has hired Chris Maegher, a Biden medication veteran, to assistance him present that the archetypal 100 days of Trump's 2nd circuit of work successful the White House has passed, sources corroborate to Fox News.

Former presidents person traditionally refrained from criticizing their successors during the archetypal 100-days play of the caller administration.

But successful a motion that Biden is looking to reengage publicly, he'll marque a unrecorded quality connected "The View" speech amusement connected Thursday, and sources corroborate that Meagher had a manus successful arranging the segment.

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Then-President Joe Biden speaks astatine the State Department, during the closing days of his presidency, connected Jan. 13, 2025. (AP)

Earlier this week, successful his archetypal interrogation since Trump's inauguration 3 and a fractional months ago, Biden sat down with the BBC.

Biden's reentering into the governmental and media spotlight whitethorn not beryllium good with many Democrats, who convey the erstwhile president for the plethora of policies passed during his azygous word successful the White House but who proceed to blasted him for past November's predetermination setbacks and who privation caller faces to pb the enactment arsenic it aims to exit the governmental wilderness.

The media appearances by Biden travel arsenic his White House successor continues to blast and belittle the erstwhile president implicit a big of issues.

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And it comes arsenic the Trump administration, according to a Politico report, is moving to merchandise audio of Biden's interrogation with then-special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden's handling of classified documents and raised questions astir the then-president's intelligence acuity successful a February 2024 report.

Biden made past successful his 2020 White House decision of Trump arsenic the oldest idiosyncratic ever elected U.S. president. And Hur's study amplified questions astir whether the then-81-year-old, who astatine the clip was moving for re-election, had the carnal and intelligence stamina to service different 4 years successful the White House.

Then-former President Donald Trump and then-President Joe Biden enactment successful their 1 and lone statement during the 2024 predetermination cycle, successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Biden's disastrous statement show against Trump past June further exacerbated his problems and fueled a chorus of calls from chap Democrats for him to measurement down arsenic the Democrats' 2024 standardbearer.

Biden yet succumbed to the unit and dropped his re-election bid successful precocious July, with then-Vice President Kamala Harris succeeding him arsenic the Democratic Party's statesmanlike nominee.

Biden continues to look disapproval from chap Democrats for staying excessively agelong successful the 2024 White House race.

Asked successful the BBC interrogation if helium should person dropped his re-election bid earlier than helium did, the erstwhile president said, "I don’t deliberation it would person mattered."

"It was a hard decision," Biden said. "I deliberation it was the close decision."

Then-President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time code to the federation successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected Wednesday, July 24, 2024, to explicate his historical determination to extremity his reelection bid. Photographer: Evan Vucci/AP Photo/Bloomberg (Getty Images)

The erstwhile president besides utilized the interrogation to blast Trump for singlehandily renaming the Gulf of Mexico arsenic the Gulf of America, for his repeated comments astir acquiring Greenland oregon taking power of the Panama Canal, and for continuously saying Canada should go America's 51st state.

"What the hell’s going connected here? What president ever talks similar that? That’s not who we are," Biden said. "We’re astir freedom, democracy, opportunity, not astir confiscation." 

He besides pilloried Trump's efforts to extremity the Russia-Ukraine warfare arsenic "modern-day appeasement."

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Meagher is simply a longtime operative and strategist with some governmental and backstage assemblage acquisition connected his resume. He's a seasoned of the Democratic National Committee, erstwhile Sen. John Tester of Montana's palmy 2018 reflection, and Pete Buttigieg's 2020 statesmanlike campaign, erstwhile the longshot for the Democratic information soared to large contender status.

During the Biden administration, Meagher concisely served nether then-Transportation Secretary Buttigieg earlier moving to the White House arsenic a lawman property caput and aboriginal to the Pentagon arsenic Defense Department spokesperson.