Barack Obama took a jab at President Trump when he said America needs ‘leaders who will bring people together’ and suggested Joe Biden was the only candidate who can help the country heal from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic.

This comes as both Trump and Biden have become further embroiled in public scandals and sexual assault allegations.

On Saturday, presidential hopeful Joe Biden released a campaign video that looked to uplift his supporters during the coronavirus outbreak

So far, the virus has infected 960,144 Americans, killed 54,109 and dealt continual blows to the country's economy.

'When I announced my campaign one year ago today, I said we were in a battle for the soul of the nation,' Biden wrote.

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Joe Biden released a new presidential campaign video Sunday and addressed the COVID-19 pandemic in the US

'One year later, that is as true as it has ever been. I believe we can and we will emerge from this crisis a stronger, better, and fairer nation. Together, as one America.'

During the video, Biden takes a not-so-subtle dig at Trump, who has been repeatedly criticized for his coronavirus response.

'Maybe something good can come out of this terrible crisis. Maybe this crisis will help us see how much our broken politics have cost us. The anger, the insults, the divisiveness,' Biden said, as images of Trump flash by in the footage.

Biden: 'Maybe something good can come out of this terrible crisis. Maybe this crisis will help us see how much our broken politics have cost us. The anger, the insults, the divisiveness'

Biden (pictured) made a direct attack at Trump's COVID-19 response, which has garnered backlash

Obama retweeted Biden's Twitter post and appeared to double down on the latest dig at Trump.

He implied that Trump's handling of the COVID-19 response has been divisive throughout the crisis.

'In moments of crisis, we look out for one other. And we need leaders with empathy who will bring people together rather than drive them apart,' Obama wrote.

'Joe Biden has the character and experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery.'

Obama: 'In moments of crisis, we look out for one other. And we need leaders with empathy who will bring people together rather than drive them apart'

Barack Obama (pictured) appeared to further support Biden after he formally endorsed him earlier this month

Trump has yet to respond to the former President-Vice President pair, but has instead focused on combating the 'lamestream media' after he suggested injecting disinfectants to cure COVID-19.

The bizarre solution came to light Thursday during a daily briefing where Trump addressed William Bryan, a senior Homeland Security science and technology advisor, about claims ultraviolet rays and heat have an impact on the pathogen.

Speaking on Thursday evening, Trump asked Bryan: 'Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light? And I think you said, that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.

'And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting,' Trump said.

Then he pivoted to another possible treatment: 'And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that?

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus on Thursday, in a briefing that caused a PR nightmare for the White House over his comments about disinfectant as a coronavirus cure

'By injection inside or almost a cleaning. As you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.

'So it would be interesting to check that,' Trump said.

'So that you're going to have to use medical doctors. But it sounds interesting to me,' he said.

Trump received swift backlash from public health experts, the CDC and Twitter users who lambasted him for propping dangerous - and unfounded - cures into the public spotlight.

The White House pushed back at the criticism and said Trump was being 'very sarcastic' when he asked officials to consider the disinfectant route.

'I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,' the president said in regards to his comments.

On Friday, Trump walked-off during the daily briefing in a fit of annoyance following the debacle.

White House aids have reportedly discussed curtailing the president's role in daily briefings after a heap of bad press following Trump's comments.

Biden advised the president to focus on COVID-19 testing and PPE instead of theories.

Trump (center) claimed his remarks about disinfectants were 'sarcastic' and taken out of context

'UV light? Injecting disinfectant? Here's an idea, Mr. President: more tests. Now. And protective equipment for actual medical professionals.'

But Biden is in the midst of his own troubles after a clip showed the mother of his sexual assault accuser, Tara Reade, asking Larry King if they should come forward with allegations against a 'prominent senator.'

The video appears to back Reade's claims that she told her mother about the sexual harassment related to her boss 27 years ago.

Reade worked as as a staffer for Biden when he was the Democratic senator for Delaware.

Reade filed an official criminal complaint against the now presumptive Democratic presidential frontrunner on April 9, accusing Biden of shoving his hand under her skirt and penetrating her with his fingers while they stood in a senate corridor, an accusation he denied.

The latest evidence to emerge shows Reade's mother Jeanette Altimus calling into the Larry King Show in 1993, the same month that Reade left Biden's staff, and anonymously asking a panel's advice on her daughter's 'problems' with a 'prominent senator'.

There is no mention of sexual assault in the clip.

A new clip appears to show Tara Reade's mother Jeanette Altimus calling into Larry King and asking about her 'problems' with a 'prominent senator' in 1993. The clip does not mention sexual assault allegations. Reade filed a formal complaint against the VP this month

Reade posted an image on social media of what she looked like in 1993, the year she alleged Biden sexually assaulted her. A new clip has emerged that appears to back her claims that she told her mother, brother and a friend about the alleged assault when it happened in 1993

Reade, who was in her 20s at the time of the alleged assault, had previously revealed Altimus called into the show when she told her about the sexual assault claims 27 years ago but was unable to remember the exact date or year of the phone call.

When news of her official complaint against Biden first emerged, Reade said she had told her mother, brother and a friend about the assault at the time. She said her mother urged her to go to the police.

Her brother Collin Moulton and the anonymous friend confirmed this, but Altimus died in 2016.

The new clip was discovered by The Intercept and Reade confirmed that it was her mother's voice on Twitter.

'I remember it being an anonymous call and her saying my daughter was sexually harassed and retaliated against and fired, where can she go for help? I was mortified,' Reade told The Intercept.

The CNN clip does not reference sexual harassment or anyone being fired but features an anonymous woman asking if her daughter should go to the press because of problems with a senator.

The interview featured in a program King aired on August 11, 1993, titled, 'Washington: The Cruelest City on Earth?' and the caller was identified as a woman dialing in from San Luis Obispo, California.

'I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?' the caller asked.

'My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.'

The panel did not offer any suggestions or advice to the caller but talked about whether they would leak news on a rival to the press.

Reade told Halper that the assault occurred after she was told to deliver a gym bag to the then-senator. Reade said she tracked down Biden on Capitol Hill and he remembered her name.

The 1993 clip shows an anonymous caller form California speak to Larry King about her daughter's problem with a 'prominent senator'. Reade said it is her mother's voice

'And then we were alone. And it was the strangest thing. There was no, like, exchange really, he just had me up against the wall,' she said.

She said she was wearing a work skirt, but no pantyhose.

'He just had me up against the wall and the wall was cold,' she said. 'His hands were on me and underneath my clothes. He went down my skirt and then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers. He was kissing me at the same time,' she said.

She said that when she 'pulled back,' Biden 'looked annoyed.'

Reade said Biden said to her, 'Come on man, I heard you liked me.'

'He implied that I had done this,' she told the podcast host.

At first Reade didn't want to mention the other quote that got stuck in her head, but then she told Halper what it was.

'You're nothing to me,' she claimed the senator said to her. 'Nothing.'

Reade said that she had attempted to bring up her concerns about the alleged assault to her superiors in Biden's office but got nowhere, a claim that the new clip of her mother appears to back.

She had previously said that in 1993 Biden, then still a senator from Delaware, touched her several times and made her feel uncomfortable.

Reade also said her duties were cut after she refused to serve drinks at an event. Biden, she claims, had wanted her serving because he liked her legs. The former staffer said she later felt pushed out and left in August 1993 after only nine months.

Biden and his campaign have fiercely denied the claims.

'Women have the right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims,' Deputy Campaign Manager and Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said.

'We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false.

'Vice President Biden has dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women. He authored and fought for the passage and reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. He firmly believes that women have a right to be heard — and heard respectfully,' she told Politico.

'Such claims should also be diligently reviewed by an independent press. What is clear about this claim: it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen.'