Recently, President Joe Biden’s sister Valerie Biden Owens made an appearance on ABC’s The View, where she spoke with the panel about her new book, Growing Up Biden, which gives people a sweet look into the youngest of the four Biden childrens’ childhood.
During the appearance, the talk show hosts questioned Biden Owens about her presidential brother’s tendency to view members of the Republican party, especially those on Capitol Hill, through the less of the benefit of the doubt, despite the fact that Joe Biden personally sat alongside the very first Black president of the United States of America for 8 entire years and witnessed firsthand the absolute Hell that the GOP put Barack Obama, Joe’s boss and friend, through during his presidency. Co-host Sunny Hostin wanted to know how President Biden could possibly forgive these people and still view and approach them with a sense of optimism and hope, knowing what he knows about the party as a whole.
Valerie explained that, somehow, someway, her brother maintains the ability to still somehow see the good in everyone, and tries to appeal to that part of their character when working with people from across the fence. Honestly, it’s one of the main reasons why more than 81 million Americans voted for him.
However, according to Biden Owens’ book, there’s one particular Republican lawmaker that, no matter how forgiving and optimistic her brother may be, she simply cannot look past.
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South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was infamously once very good friends with Joe Biden, back in the now-president’s days as a senator on Capitol Hill. In fact, Graham once boasted a 36-year-long friendship with the Biden family as a whole. However, Donald Trump’s presidency flipped that friendship on its head and left the Biden family wondering what happened to Lindsey Graham, the man they once knew.
In excerpts of her book, Valerie writes that she is all too often asked, “What happened to Lindsey Graham?”
“The man is unrecognizable to me today,” Biden Owens wrote.
It was just seven short years ago that Lindsey Graham infamously told a HuffPost reporter, “The bottom line is if you don’t admire Joe Biden as a person—you have a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation. . . . He is as good a man as God ever created.”
But now, the South Carolina GOP congressman is nothing more than a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” Even Trump vilified the Republican lawmaker, only for Graham to become “sycophant in chief to Trump,” Valerie wrote. The man who was once a close, dear friend to the entire Biden family was now making “character-assassinating comments about Joe and our family.”
Biden Owens said she found it “troubling” to have to sit back and watch as people who were once so close to her family now “do nothing or at worst, participate,” in the horrifying things Donald Trump and his people have done to this country. Speaking of Trump’s numerous transgressions, Biden’s sister said there were “fresh degradations almost every day,” but nevertheless, people who were once their friends were and remain loyal to Trump.
Graham has sunk so deep, in fact, that Valerie often finds herself wondering if “perhaps a part of Senator Graham’s soul died” too when their friend, Sen. John McCain, passed away.
Valerie Biden Owens’ book will be available for purchase on April 12th.
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