{"id":8601,"date":"2020-03-07T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=8601"},"modified":"2020-03-07T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:04:30","slug":"i-went-to-the-big-guys-for-money-i-was-ready-to-prostitute-myself-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=8601","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Went to the Big Guys for Money, I Was Ready to Prostitute Myself\u2019 &#8212; Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>VIDEO: Joe Biden Once Said \u2018I Went to the Big Guys for Money, I Was Ready to Prostitute Myself\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The now-78-year-old Biden said he was turned down due to not yet being 40<\/h3>\n<p>by Gabriel Keane<br \/>\nNATIONAL FILE<\/p>\n<h4>A recently resurfaced video clip shows then-senator and current presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden boasting about going \u201cto the big guys\u201d for donor money with the intent \u201cto prostitute myself,\u201d only to be turned down because he was not yet 40.<\/h4>\n<p>Former Vice President Biden, 78, is asked, \u201cI\u2019m sure that you would agree that your service in the Senate has not reflected any particular concern for the larger contributors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden shifts in his seat and says, \u201cWell, the fortunate thing is I didn\u2019t have any large contributors, and the only reason, see, I went to the big guys for the money, I was ready to prostitute myself, in the manner in which I talked about it, but the thing was they said \u2018Come back when you\u2019re 40 son.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to secure contributions from the \u201cbig guys\u201d \u2013 though not for lack of trying \u2013 Biden says he had to go out and seek contributions from smaller contributors.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImWithTrump\/status\/1234672919478849537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1234672919478849537&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalfile.com%2Fvideo-joe-biden-once-said-i-went-to-the-big-guys-for-money-i-was-ready-to-prostitute-myself%2F<\/p>\n<p>The clip is particularly strange because Biden appears to implying that he would have gladly \u201cprostituted\u201d himself to big donors if his age had not been a disqualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is now 78 years old, meaning he has been eligible to take money from \u201cthe big guys\u201d for 38 years.<\/p>\n<p>One of the primary charges leveled against Biden by both left-wing progressives and right-wing conservatives is the accusation that he is a puppet of big business and corporate lobbyists.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/video-joe-biden-once-said-i-went-to-the-big-guys-for-money-i-was-ready-to-prostitute-myself\/\">https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/video-joe-biden-once-said-i-went-to-the-big-guys-for-money-i-was-ready-to-prostitute-myself\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: Joe Biden Once Said \u2018I Went to the Big Guys for Money, I Was Ready to Prostitute Myself\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}