President Biden’s personal lawyer Bob Bauer is expected to stand in as former President Donald Trump during the Democrat’s debate prep ahead of their first televised showdown next week.
Bauer, 72, previously played Trump during the 2020 election cycle — describing his role in a new memoir as trying to be “as personally insulting and unhinged as Trump can be” — and is likely to reprise the act in the coming week, CNN reported, citing two sources.
“I can’t discuss anything related to the debate,” Bauer said in a Friday afternoon appearance on the cable channel when asked to confirm that he would guide the 81-year-old Biden through his preparation to take on Trump, 78, in Atlanta June 27.
The Biden campaign neither confirmed nor denied to The Post that Bauer will play the role and a number of Democrats close to the campaign said they didn’t know for sure if he would do so as the president spends a long weekend at Camp David in western Maryland.
Bauer is married to West Wing senior adviser for communications Anita Dunn, who last year unsuccessfully attempted to pressure White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to leave her post over concerns that she would be an ineffective election-year champion for Biden.
