Former US president Barack Obama has no interest in being part of the squad that will surround Joe Biden as future president. “I wouldn’t do that,” Obama said in an interview with the American channel CBS.
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Biden was vice president for eight years during Obama’s tenure. “He doesn’t need my advice,” said the US’s first black president of his former right-hand man. “I’ll help him as best I can. But it’s not that I would suddenly want to be on the White House staff or anything. ”
As a reason for this, he explicitly referred to his wife Michelle. “Some things I wouldn’t do because Michelle would leave me,” he laughs. “She would say, ‘What are you doing now?'”.
Obama publishes his memoirs this week. According to The Guardian he admits that his own career has repeatedly thwarted his wife’s ambitions as a lawyer. More than once Michelle has missed an opportunity. (…) After my election she had to give up her own job, for the role of first lady, which was originally too small for someone with her talents.
Michelle Obama already published her memoirs in 2018. More than 10 million copies were sold.
In the conversation with CBS, Obama says he finds it “disappointing” that the Republicans support Donald Trump in his attack on the election results. ‘But that’s what the party has been doing for the past four years. They clearly don’t think there was any fraud because they didn’t mention it in the first few days. But it is harmful. ‘
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