Biden, Obama pair in socially distanced video to decry Trump

Joe Biden and Barack Obama are stepping up ir attacks on President Donald Trump and defending ir own time in White House in a new video depicting ir first in-person meeting since coronavirus outbreak began.

Snippets offered by Biden's campaign showed pair wearing masks while arriving at an office, n sitting down well apart from each or to observe social distancing for a bare-faced chat.

full video will be posted on social media on Thursday, but teasers showed Biden and Obama discussing passing ir ministration's signature health care law and blaming Donald Trump for stoking division and animosity among Americans from moment he entered 2016 presidential race.

y also were sharply critical of Republican president's efforts to combat a virus that has killed more than 140,000 Americans.

“Can you imagine standing up when you were president and saying, 'It's t my responsibility, I take responsibility'?” Biden says, offering a line of attack similar to his recent campaign speeches when he asserted that Trump “quit” on country and has “waved white flag” amid pandemic.

“Those words didn't come out of our mouths while we were in office,” Obama replies.

former president largely stayed out of once-crowded Democratic primary but endorsed Biden in April, when he was last candidate standing. Obama hosted a virtual fundraiser for his former vice president last month that raised $7.6 million, most of any Biden campaign event so far. He warned n against Democrats becoming “complacent and smug.” meeting in video — and Biden campaign promoting it to voters — illustrates larger role Obama is expected to play for presumptive Democratic presidential minee in months before vember.

In ar excerpt, Biden refers to Trump launching his 2016 campaign at Trump Tower, saying, “He ran by deliberately dividing people from moment he came down that escalator, and I think people are w going, 'I don't want my kid growing up that way.'” Obama responds that he h confidence in Biden's “heart and your character, and fact that you are going to be able to reassemble kind of government that cares about people and brings people toger.” Ar scene features Biden discussing final months before his son Beau died of brain cancer and recalling thinking “to myself, what would happen if his insurance company was able to come in — which y could have done before we passed Obamacare — and said, 'You have outrun your insurance.'” Obama says, “I couldn't be prouder of what we got done.” “Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it because of what we did,” former president ds.