--- title: Joe Biden Defends Press Against Donald Trump description: Joe Biden repudiated attacks on the judiciary and the press amid heated rhetoric against those institutions by President Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4688301/joe-biden-donald-trump/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-02T13:35:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:37:23.974Z article:section: Politics og:title: Biden Says Attacks on the Media and the Judiciary Are 'Corrosive' og:description: "It makes it impossible to reach compromise" og:url: https://time.com/4688301/joe-biden-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd91be7bebde02155/6988bcb12dce013f089ec7bb/biden-carnegie-endowment-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-NUCLEAR-BIDEN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Biden Says Attacks on the Media and the Judiciary Are 'Corrosive' twitter:description: "It makes it impossible to reach compromise" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd91be7bebde02155/6988bcb12dce013f089ec7bb/biden-carnegie-endowment-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joe Biden Says Attacks on the Media and the Judiciary Are 'Corrosive' and 'Dangerous' > Sponsored content. 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Former Vice President Joe Biden highlights future challenges in dealing with nuclear weapons at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC on January 11, 2017. CHRIS KLEPONIS—AFP/Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Mar 2, 2017 1:35 PM UTC [Former Vice President Joe Biden](http://time.com/4641376/joe-biden-amtrak-delaware/) strongly repudiated attacks on the judiciary and the press Wednesday amid heated rhetoric against those institutions by [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4688228/a-gop-revolt-threatens-president-trumps-agenda/). “When you delegitimize the courts, you delegitimize the legislative body. It’s corrosive. and it makes it impossible to reach compromise,” Biden said at the Newseum in remarks reported by [ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-defends-media-courts-dangerous-attacks/story?id=45848276). Biden also said he was “saddened” to have to defend the press and the First Amendment, particularly at the Newseum, a museum devoted to the importance of those topics. Although Biden did not mention Trump by name, it was clear these references were in response to the President’s attacks on the press and the legal system. 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