On January 20 , 2021 , Joe Biden was swear in as the 46th President of the United States . But back in 2016 , he was standing in the spotlight of a dissimilar kind . On September 28 , 2016 , the then - frailty president to Barack Obama made a surprisal cameo onLaw & Order : SVU .
The episode , titled " make water a Rapist , " was a spin on the Netflix docuseriesMaking a Murderer . It center around a adult male who had his Brassica napus judgment of conviction overturned , only to be accuse of raping another woman . Theepisode openedwith Biden praising Lt . Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ) and her team for weed through a backlog of young rape kit .
While the plot of land was a workplace of dramatic fable , the subject matter itself was staked squarely in reality . For decades , Biden had been working to help oneself victim of sexual abuse , most notably by bringing the Violence Against Women Act ( VAWA ) to Congress in 1990 . During his vice presidential term , Biden made campus rape and intimate assault a major gunpoint of focus .
That 2016 client spot was n’t Biden ’s first idiot box cameo . In 2012 , during the 5th time of year ofParks and Recreation , he madea brief appearanceto meet Leslie Knope — Amy Poehler ’s Biden - hump public servant , who also happens to have a major crush on Biden . He made a 2d appearance in 2017 , as part of the serial closing curtain .
In 2014 , Biden also joined forces with Julia Louis - Dreyfus ’s fictional VP , Selina Meyer , for a promo for her awarding - winning HBO seriesVeep .
Though Biden is in all likelihood going to be too busy to quest for any other dissemble opportunities in the near future , he ’s built a pretty telling IMDb resume , so we ’re excited to see where the politico ’s idiot box calling might take him next .
