Earl Ingram Interview with President Joe Biden on July 4th, 2024

President Biden, it is an honor and a privilege

to have you appear on the civic media,

radio network, and especially the Earl Ingraham show.

Now, have a few questions I'd like to ask you, sir.

Far away, man.

Can you speak to some accomplishments

that we may or may not be familiar with about your record,

especially here in Wisconsin?

Well, there's a number of them.

As a, for example, back in March, I was in Milwaukee.

I announced $36 million for the 6th Street Project

to reconnect communities, helping families and businesses

come together.

You know, we build highways back in those days,

separate communities, breaking up communities,

breaking up businesses, breaking up economic opportunities.

And we're rebuilding them to connect those communities.

I'm proud to be running for reelection to the president,

who's made his promises, and I've kept them.

For example, I promised we'd get through this toughest time

in history, and because we were left after the pandemic,

which my opponent has absolutely screwed up

causing the deaths of millions,

about not millions, but over a million people died.

And we resulted in sending $1,400 checks to people who were in trouble.

We created 15.6 million jobs.

The place was brought down as continued to come down.

And we're going to lower prices for groceries and gasoline

and the rest for average people,

and particularly in the black community and minority communities.

And by promise we take on a big farmer,

the pharmaceutical companies that ripen us off,

and ripen everybody off.

And so now, for example, anybody you know who had

as the diabetes needs insulin,

they only have to pay 30, only cost eight bucks for these guys to make it.

35 bucks is the maximum they can charge now.

And we set a cap that's on the law now

that caps in $2,000, all the prescriptions

that any one of the senior would have to be need.

And some of these drugs costs for cancer drugs costs 10, 12, 14,000 dollars.

And I want to do that for everybody in America, everybody.

Now, that's 1.3 million Wisconsin Medicare beneficiaries get that benefit.

More black families have health coverage through the American,

the ACA, the little Obamacare, and ever before,

because so many, as you know,

so many black families have preexisting conditions.

When I try to go get insurance, they have a preexisting condition.

They can't get that insurance.

This provides that for them.

They're able to get insurance.

And I just increased that by $800 per person to be able to afford it.

And then this is that.

We're going to build them black wealth result black wealth.

Because that's the pandemic is up 60%.

There's a hell of a lot more to do, but it's up.

Black home ownership is up.

You know, you build a home on one side of a super highway.

That's in a white community and build the same home on the other side of

super highway in a black community.

The black community home is all immediately assessed at somewhere between 20, 40%

less value than the home in the white community.

It's wrong.

It's simply wrong.

We're changing that.

Black owned small business are starting up faster than any time in decades.

There's over 220,000 new black business applications in Wisconsin alone.

We're investing hundreds of millions of dollars in small business and in this state.

You're getting people a chance to start a small business.

I promise to relieve student debt.

Result is 2.3 billion to 2.3 billion dollars in student loan debt.

We leave over 60,000 borrowers in Wisconsin, many in black borrowers.

And by the way, HBCUs have and the students are as bright as students anywhere else.

They don't have an endowment to set up the laboratories for the jobs of the future.

So I've been able to provide and I promised I'd do it.

$16 billion just since I've been elected invested in HBCUs.

So they're going to be able to put out the best folks in the world because they have the capacity to do it.

There's a lot more.

But in addition to that, anyway, I have to probably talk for too long.

But I'm very, I come out of a black community in terms of being elected in the first time back when I was 29 and the source of my support.

And it is low.

Anyway, you've already a president Biden.

You've already answered question two that I wanted to ask you.

What's at stake for black voters this election?

I think you've done a great job explaining, you know, what's at stake.

There's one other thing.

Look, the fact is I promised that when I got elected, I would have an administration look like America, look like America.

I serve at the first black president American history.

I picked a black woman to be my vice president.

I've appointed the first black woman to be a Supreme Court justice, who in fact is, is just as smart as hell.

C'Tanji Brown and Jackson.

In addition to that, I have more blacks in my administration than any other president, all of the president is combined and major positions, cabinet positions.

And in addition to that, we're more working in a position that we have provided for.

I have appointed more black judges, more black women judges, and every other president of the American history combined.

Because it's important representation is important.

They have to have a voice and that gives them a voice, gives a black community a voice.

And, you know, and there's a lot of stake here.

I mean, I got a guy run against his embracing political violence, pledging the rule of the dictator and day one attacking the right to vote.

He's been attacking the right to vote since a long, long time.

And he's going to make the wealthy and large corporations pay their, I'm going to make sure they pay their fair share.

He's going to double down on tax rates for them.

And he wants to strengthen, I want to strengthen Medicare and Social Security.

He wants to cut Social Security Medicare.

Imagine what that means for the elderly black community.

I mean, it just is amazing.

And look, he is just, I'm sorry to get so worked up with.

He is just, he's done terrible things in the community.

And he has about as much interest and concern for black minority communities as the man in the name of us.

So as a person of color, I am excited about you getting worked up.

Question three, I got a couple more questions, President Biden.

A lot of people have been told or have the mindset that their vote doesn't matter.

What can you say to them?

Well, I can say is the vote of the black community matters and intensely, intensely.

Look, it would make up a significant portion of the American population.

Who's going to represent you except folks like me and we're not going to be able to represent you if you're not showing up.

In fact, to both, it matters.

Your voice has to be heard.

Lots of close elections are last couple of years and every vote counts.

I understand that for far too long, black community black Americans often love their country,

held a lot more than their countries love them and have them love them back in equal measure.

Because folks like you turn out the vote in 2020.

We have made remarkable progress.

The president is most powerful office in the world.

But we, someone who was the main character.

You need someone who is going to make sure that Supreme Court just issued a decision, by the way.

The threat is American principle that we have no king to the America.

There's no one above the law.

That's what we always, we gave Donald Trump an executive power to use a system that is just never contemplated by our power.

Because of the people he appointed to the court, it's just presidential immunity.

He can say that I did this in my capacity as an executive and made them wrong.

But I didn't, but that's kind of whole because I, and this is the same guy who says that he wants to enact revenge.

He wants to organize a coup.

He said, I want to rule as a dictator.

The stakes are really high.

I know you know this for democracy, for freedom or economics, our economy are all on the line.

And the other side is working overtime to chip away at your right to vote and begin with.

And we're working harder and harder to protect that right to vote.

So so much to stay here and nothing more, no more to stake them to the working class women and men of America, particularly minorities, Hispanics, Asian-American, African-Americans.

It really matters.

That's what makes us who we are.

We're a great country because we give everybody a shot.

He doesn't want to give anybody, but he's like he said down in Mar-a-Lago.

He said, you know, I know you're all rich as hell.

I'm going to make your richer and they all put that into that funny at the same time.

As I said, he wants a 10% tariff on everything important in the United States, which the experts point.

That's going to raise the taxes on average Americans, 2500 bucks, raise the taxes.

And it gives a $5 trillion tax cut next time out for everybody making it anyway.

I just I don't want to get too wrapped up.

But it really, I have nothing but an incredible disregard for everything he stands for in regard to the community.

And the last question, President Biden, let's talk about the debate.

Can you address some of the concerns about your performance and Trump's ridiculous remark about black jobs?

Well, two things.

One, I had a bad night and a bad night.

And the fact of the matter is that, you know, it was, I shushed crude up.

I made a mistake and, but I learned from my father when you get knocked down, just get back up.

Get back up and, you know, we're going to do, we're going to win this election.

We're going to just beat Donald Trump, because like we did in 2020, we're going to beat him again.

But we need all of you to get this done, all of you.

Look, I came back from, I was in a situation where, why I didn't have a good debate.

That's 90 minutes on stage.

Look at what I've done in 3.5 years.

I've led the economy back for the brink of collapse.

It's still improving.

We got more to do a lower prescription drug crisis.

I've worked with Republicans to expand veterans health care.

This is the same guy, by the way, when I was over in Normandy.

I wanted to go to World War One, play a World War One cemetery.

And there's the same cemetery.

He stood with his former four star channel chief of staff Kelly when he was there.

And he said, didn't want to go because there's lose, there are losers and winers.

My son died because of a year in Iraq.

This guy's talking to these guys about being losers and winers.

He has no respect for anybody.

I really mean it.

And look, the Republicans, a couple of Republicans jumped in and helped me expand health care.

Now, for example, you remember, if you reported on it, that when,

when the age and orange was being dropped on people's heads during the Vietnam War,

that they said they'd be compensated.

But guess what?

They couldn't prove that the specific problem they have is because of age and orange.

I changed that in the pill that I got passed, that I wrote, that we wrote.

And the same way with my son, my son, I was in out of Iraq many times.

He was there for a year.

He volunteered to go.

He lived just about a quarter mile from what they call a burn pits.

These are size of football fields.

10 feet deep to dump everything from human waste to pollution in there.

And they burn it and all those humes, the reason why he came back when a very healthy man came back

to stage four, Cleo Blastoma, more brain injuries, more than any other war.

And he died.

I'll be damned if I let this, excuse me, this president talk about veterans

where he told now we have all those folks who are around those burn pits

and all those folks from age and orange, they now, over a minimum,

now we're getting the benefits that their families deserve.

We only have one sacred obligation.

That's the pair of those we send in the harm's way and care for them

and the families when they come home.

Now we're finally beginning to do that.

But look, here's the deal.

You know, 90 minutes on stage, as I said, I've done this.

What I've done in the last 3.5 years is, by the way, there's no,

there's, it's not quite, well, by the way, you asked me about the black jobs.

You know what he's doing.

It's shameful.

He's talking about black jobs, meaning all these things and blacks can do,

or manual labor, meaning, mean, mean, you know, labor.

That's what he's doing.

That's how he looks at it.

Maybe something he's done to help the black community give people a shot

like I've done in college and education.

At home, I had a whole range of things.

This thing, I have questioned George Floyd's humanity, led to the Bertha movement

against Barack Obama.

You know, this is a guy who said Barack Obama, a black guy, he wasn't born in America

and he kept it going, lying like hell.

It's like he lied like hell about what's going on anyway.

But look, he's falsely, he's a Central Park five.

Those guys who were arrested, he said they should all be convicted.

And I don't know if they even call for their hanging or not.

But they said they're convicted of murder.

They were innocent.

You won't even acknowledge that.

And by the way, I'm proud that I have the first black vice president

in American history.

I'm proud of the point that I said, more black women in the Supreme Court,

more black women in the federal courts and certain courts.

And any other president, all presidents combined.

Look, we can't waste talent in America.

There's so much talent in the black community.

All people, my dad just said, everybody just deserves a shot.

It's an even shot.

That's all it is.

It's an even shot.

And we have to invest more in education.

I plan like hell to make sure.

Look, there's a lot of folks coming from broken homes in the black and white community.

When we learned a lot of through significant studies in my administration,

that if you have preschool days, three, four and five, no matter what the background is,

you have a 56 better, 56 better chance going through 12 years of school and doing it well.

I think community college should be free and save American money.

It would increase productivity in America.

Just give people a chance, a chance.

And I tell you what, the idea that you guys can be reporting this on the 4th of July,

just a little bit, I'm so sure of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is really important.

Cannot, cannot, cannot let this guy win.

It just being disaster for America.

And by the way, it's not just me, I'll end with it.

There are 15, 15 Nobel laureates, 14, I think it's 14 or 15, Nobel laureates in the economy.

They said that he's reelected.

He's going to cause a recession, but he's let out what he wants to do the second term.

He said he's going to cause a recession or a recession.

And we're going to have a significant rise in the interest rates.

They looked at mine and they said, what Biden's going to do if he really elected.

He's going to make sure interest rates come down and we're going to solve landing.

We're going to be able to continue to grow the economy.

The economy has never grown faster than under me.

We're going to make sure it does, but it includes everybody.

We are one where you're unique in all the world, all the world,

we're the only nation that's organized based on an idea, not ethnicity, not race,

not religion, I'm an idea that as we hold these truths to be self-evident,

all men who are going to create a job by their career.

We've never fully lived up to it when we've never, ever, ever, ever walked away from it.

We've got to get closer and closer to it.

He wants to walk away from it completely.

I'm sorry.

I feel so strongly about this, that a particular effect,

hard work of people in the art and communities.

President Biden, it is and has been an honor and a privilege to have had this

opportunity.

I want to say to you that you're talking to a man who's followed you for 45 years,

watch your career and predict that President Obama was going to make you his

vice president.

So I'm speaking for all of civic media.

Yes, sir.

I'm speaking for all of civic media across the network, across this entire state

that we support you.

We love you and keep up the good work.

Well, by the way, as my mother would say, you're doing God's work, kid.

This is really important for so many, many people.

Thank you.

Thank you.

What you doing.

Thank you very much.

That is President Joe Biden on civic media.