Joe Biden (AHOTW)

## Joe Biden

**Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.** (/ˈbaɪdən/ (listen) *BY-dən*; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from January 20th 2022 to February 22nd, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009. Joe Biden would be assassinated by John Andrew Bazor Jr on the 22nd of February, 2023 whilst delivering a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

## Vice Presidency (2009 - 2017)

Biden said he intended to eliminate some explicit roles assumed by George W. Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, and did not intend to emulate any previous vice presidency. He chaired Obama's transition team and headed an initiative to improve middle-class economic well-being. In early January 2009, in his last act as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he visited the leaders of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and on January 20 he was sworn in as the 47th vice president of the United States‍—‌the first vice president from Delaware and the first Roman Catholic vice president.

Biden was inaugurated to a second term on January 20, 2013, at a small ceremony at Number One Observatory Circle, his official residence, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor presiding (a public ceremony took place on January 21).

## Presidency (2021 - 2023)

### COVID Handling

As President of the United States, Joe Biden would be 'gifted' a COVID spike by President Pence after the mishandling of the COVID virus in the UK. With this information, Biden extended Pence's travel ban on the UK, along with introducing mask mandates across the USA to make sure that the number of cases in the USA decreases by a margin that gets the cases below 500,000 daily. Along with this, Biden starts to order an increasing number of doctors to work on finding a vaccine for COVID, as they believe that there is one on the way, however the faster and the more effective the better. Biden successfully managed to find a vaccine for the virus within just 3 months of taking office, with him producing 5,000,000 doses of it first for the American people to have (mainly the lower class and disabled band), and then he continued his quest to get all Americans double-jabbed by 2023 which he achieved. Biden would also sign the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which provided $1.9 trillion in an economic stimulus relief package for all Americans affected by the virus.

### BLM Protests

In the Pence Presidency, he would experience an increasing uproar about the murder of George Floyd under President Trump, who when tasked with what to do on it, ordered that "tear gas is the best way to go". Pence's response was to simply deploy police, however Biden ordered that there be several new legislative pieces signed into law that limit the powers of the police's stop and search ability, meaning that there is less chance of discrimination against minority groups by the police force. Along with that, Biden also passed additional legislation that would give LGBTQ people more rights, such as Transgender people being allowed to join the military.

### Assassination

On the 22nd of February, 2023, President Joe Biden would be assassinated whilst giving an address in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when an assassin, later identified as John Andrew Bazor Jr., would shoot President Biden in the chest with a Karabiner 98k that he would have stored with him inside of a backpack. John Bazor said that his intentions of killing President Biden were "because that's what is right for America". Bazor was caught by Biden's security team, and a 5-day long mourning service took place for President Biden. It was later confirmed that Mr Bazor had a history of mental health problems, however that still didn't stop the Security team from shooting Mr Bazor and killing him due to him assassinating the President. Kamala Harris, the now-president of the United States delivered a speech on President Biden, saying that "he was a kind, caring and loving man who did not deserve what happened to him. The whole nation will miss him. This is wrong. Despite this, we must fight back our tears and serve strongly for Biden and for his family."