Posted on 04/30/2021 6:44:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden blamed the Trump administration for ongoing problems at the U.S.-Mexico border, citing its failure to cooperate and share critical information during the presidential transition period.
In an exclusive interview airing Friday with TODAY show co-anchor Craig Melvin, Biden said his administration inherited “one god-awful mess at the border” from former President Donald Trump. He said it’s the result of “the failure to have a real transition — cooperation from the last administration, like every other administration has done.”
After the November election, Biden said that he dispatched his transition team to meet with the officials leading the major departments across the government.
“The two departments that didn’t give us access to virtually anything were the immigration and the Defense Department,” said Biden, who added that his team didn’t know until he was sworn into office that Trump had fired many people from those departments and they were “understaffed considerably.”
Biden declined to call the border situation a crisis. He also acknowledged that his administration has struggled to reunite the children and families who had been separated under Trump policies.
“We don't know yet where those kids are,” he said. “We're trying like hell to figure out what happened. What happened to that child when he got separated? Where’d they go? Where are they?”
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NBC misspelled “capitulate.”
Lying, miserable old POS.
I don’t recall Obama being too cooperative with Trump when he left.
And enough Democrat voters are stoopid enough to believe this crapola.
Dementia just keeps on destroying Joe,,,,He was a fool who lived off the American Taxpayer for 48 years and never accomplished anything......What a disaster? Is he the best Delaware had to offer? Obozo and Jarrett just keep feeding him trash to dump on the American people. The two brain surgeries did not help him.
There is only one reason there is a border crisis. The person who solved the border infestation problem was replaced by the person who unsolved the border infestation problem. No amount of disinformation will change that one fact.
The flow had been slowed to a trickle.
Telling everyone we were going to stop the effective policies is what started the flood again.
Total crock. This is all on Biden. He created this crisis.
Is Cornyn the best Texas has to offer?
Is Flimsey Grahamnesty the best SC has to offer?
Is Thune the best SD has to offer.?
IS Micro Rubio the best FL has to offer?
Republican voters can be as stupid as Democrat voters.
‘Pass the Buck Biden’
LOL...the first thing Biden did was undo a variety of laws and agreements to make this all happen. Trump had it sealed up tight. Joe isnt going to win this battle
W is just glad they aren’t blaming him anymore.
Oh please, DEMOCRATS brought on this sh!t-show for future democrat votes and now that it actually is out of control it’s time to cast blame. Soon we’re going to hear “we’re doing the best we can with what we inherited”.
That was exactly my first thought when I saw that headline.
Seeing that forty plus gop senators out of fifty that do absolutely nothing to stop the insanity, you are absolutely correct.
Citing its failure to cooperate and share critical information.
He wouldn’t remember what he read ten minutes after he read it anyway.
“NBC -> CIA newspuppets”
What a bunch of LIARS!!!
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