Biden ‘not confident’ in peaceful transition should Trump lose again

Congressional committee blamed Trump for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
‘He means what he says,’ Biden warns of Trump’s rhetoric
Jan. 6 legal case in limbo after July's Supreme Court ruling

Updated: Aug 7, 2024 / 06:00 PM EDT

WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 01: U.S. President Joe Biden answers reporters’ questions after announcing the release of prisoners freed by Russia, including Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, in the East Room at the White House on August 01, 2024 in Washington, DC. The two, along with Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen and Radio Free Europe journalist, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Washington Post columnist, and others were released in a prisoner exchange with Russia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he has little faith that Donald Trump will commit to a peaceful transfer of power, should the former president lose the election a second time.

“If Trump loses, I’m not confident at all,” Biden told CBS News during a taped interview scheduled to air Sunday. “He means what he says. All the stuff about, ‘If we lose there will be a bloodbath, stolen election.’ Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes, putting people in place in states that they’re going to count the votes, right? You can’t love your country only when you win.”

It was Biden’s first TV interview since exiting the 2024 race, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and delivering a seismic shock to the 2024 election.

The House of Representatives Jan. 6 committee’s final report released in 2022 asserts that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol.

Trump is facing a four-count federal indictment over Jan. 6 — charges he conspired to defraud Americans over his 2020 election defeat and obstructed the official proceeding in Congress to certify the vote for Biden.

The Supreme Court, however, in July ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal election loss case and all but ending prospects of the former president being tried before the November election.