Vice President Joe Biden says intelligence officials tipped off him and President Obama about unverified, sordid allegations against President-elect Donald Trump so they wouldn’t be caught off guard if the information became public.

Biden told reporters Thursday that he and President Obama did not ask the intelligence community to corroborate the claims because they didn’t take them seriously.

“As a matter of fact, the president was like, ‘What does this have anything to do with anything?'” Biden told the Associated Press.

“Well, we feel obligated to tell you, Mr. President, because you may hear about it. We’re going to tell him [Trump],” Biden recalled the intelligence officials responding.

The VP said he didn’t think the unverified information was worth a second glance.

“It surprised me in that it made it to the point where the agency, the FBI thought they had to pursue it,” he said.

The 35-page dossier, compiled by a former British secret service agent, contained unsubstantiated claims from anonymous sources that Russian operatives had information that compromised Trump.

The documents, which had been circulating among Congressional leaders and some reporters, were relayed to Trump last week along with other reports intelligence officials said showed Russian hacking during the US election.

Biden said the intelligence officials couldn’t say whether the claims listed in the dossier were true and there was “hardly any discussion” about the them in the meeting.

“Neither the president nor I asked for any detail,” he said. But “I’ve read everything” in it.

Even though the dossier became public, Biden was critical of Trump for accusing the intelligence community of leaking the documents and then comparing the release to something that would happen in “Nazi Germany.”

“The one thing you never want to invoke is Nazi Germany, no matter what the circumstances. It’s an overwhelming diversion from the point you’re trying to make,” he said.

With Post wires