CHICAGO (AP) -- Former President Joe Biden made his first public remarks about President Donald Trump since leaving office, saying Thursday night that “these are dark days” for America.
Biden, who didn’t mention Trump by name, accused the Trump administration of “doing its best to dismantle the Constitution” with the help of the Republican-controlled Congress and the Supreme Court.
“Our future is literally on the line,” Biden said in the speech to a National Bar Association convention in Chicago on the 100th anniversary of the organization, which was founded to support Black lawyers at a time when they were excluded from the legal profession.
Biden celebrated the diversity of his judicial appointments and recounted his work on civil rights throughout a five-decade political career before turning to Trump.
“In our lives, the life of our nation, there are moments so stark that they divide all that came before from everything that follows,” Biden said.
“Moments that force us to confront hard truths about ourselves, our institutions and democracy itself. We are, in my view, at such a moment in American history.”