Retiring President Joe Biden mentioned it was the “privilege of my life” to serve in politics as he launched his farewell letter — days earlier than President-elect Donald Trump is ready to take workplace.
“4 years in the past, we stood in a winter of peril and a winter of potentialities. We have been within the grip of the worst pandemic in a century, the worst financial disaster for the reason that Nice Melancholy, and the worst assault on our democracy for the reason that Civil Warfare,” Biden mentioned. “However we got here collectively as People, and we braved by it. We emerged stronger, extra affluent, and safer.”
“I ran for president as a result of I believed that the soul of America was at stake. The very nature of who we’re was at stake. And, that’s nonetheless the case,” he added.
“America is an thought stronger than any military and bigger than any ocean. It’s probably the most highly effective thought within the historical past of the world. That concept is that we’re all created equal, endowed by our Creator with sure unalienable rights, amongst them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We’ve by no means totally lived as much as this sacred thought, however we’ve by no means walked away from it both. And I don’t consider the American folks will stroll away from it now.”
Biden referred to as it the privilege of his life to serve the nation for over 50 years sharing his “modest” beginnings to the Oval Workplace.
“It has been the privilege of my life to serve this nation for over 50 years. Nowhere else on Earth may a child with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, in the future sit behind the Resolute Desk within the Oval Workplace as President of america. I’ve given my coronary heart and my soul to our nation. And I’ve been blessed one million occasions in return with the love and assist of the American folks.”
“Historical past is in your arms. The ability is in your arms. The concept of America lies in your arms. We simply must hold the religion and keep in mind who we’re. We’re america of America, and there may be merely nothing past our capability once we do it collectively.”
Biden is scheduled to be on the Capitol on Monday when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in because the forty seventh President of america.
Earlier this month, Trump accused Biden of constructing his return to the Oval Workplace “as tough as doable.
“Biden is doing every thing doable to make the TRANSITION as tough as as [sic] doable, from Lawfare similar to has by no means been seen earlier than, to expensive and ridiculous Govt Orders on the Inexperienced New Rip-off and different cash losing Hoaxes,” Trump, 78, posted on Fact Social.
“Worry not, these ‘Orders’ will all be terminated shortly, and we are going to turn into a Nation of Frequent Sense and Power. MAGA!!!”
Biden, Dr. Jill Biden and all different former presidents and their spouses are anticipated to attend the Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony, together with George W. and Laura Bush, Invoice and Hillary Clinton, and Joe and Jill Biden
Michelle Obama won’t be current on the ceremony. The previous first woman’s staff didn’t present a cause for skipping the inauguration.
She was additionally a no-show up for Jimmy Carter’s funeral at Washington Nationwide Cathedral on Jan. 9. Barack Obama wound up sitting subsequent to Trump, the place the 2 have been seen yukking it up in a viral second.