Biden – in rambling final sitdown interview – dismisses claim that Netanyahu slow-walked cease-fire to help Trump 

President Biden sat for his final TV interview as commander in chief Thursday during which he rejected the claim Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed a cease-fire deal with Hamas in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump. 

Biden, who rambled and meandered throughout much of the sitdown, appeared notably confident in his answer when MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell presented him with the cease-fire theory. 

“No, I don’t think it was to help [sic] our campaign versus Trump,” the outgoing president said. “I don’t think that was his calculus.”

Biden, who has refused to give Trump credit for sealing the deal that is expected to set dozens of Hamas-held hostages free, acknowledged though that the president-elect’s “national security people” were brought in before the agreement was struck. 

During the rare interview, O’Donnell also asked Biden to reflect on some of his “accomplishments” and missteps in the White House. 

Biden suggested that not signing his name on COVID relief checks, as Trump famously did, may have been politically costly. 

“The mistake we made was, I think I made, was not getting our allies to acknowledge that the Democrats did this,” he said. 

“I’m not a very good huckster,” Biden claimed, before acknowledging that Trump putting his name on stimulus checks “wasn’t a stupid thing for him to do.”  

“I almost spent too much time on the policy and not enough time on the politics,” the president argued. 

Biden, who has engaged in fewer press conferences and media interviews than any president in modern history, was not asked about the controversial decision to pardon his disgraced son Hunter during Thursday’s friendly sitdown.

But Biden did invoke Hunter’s name when asked what his late son, Beau, would be telling him as he prepares to leave office. 

“Beau and Hunter have always had faith in my instincts,” Biden responded, before going on a tangent about his beginnings in politics and his belief that “all politics is personal.” 

“I’m getting way over my skis here,” the president acknowledged at the end of his word salad.