Reporters today grilled Joe Biden over his comments yesterday that Putin cannot remain in power.
Here’s the first go:
Biden said: “I’m not walking anything back…I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing…I wasn’t then nor am I now articulating a policy change. I was expressing moral outrage that I feel and I make no apologies for it.”
Biden was pressed about this by another reporter:
.@POTUS: "Nobody believes we're going to take down, that I was talking about taking down Putin. Nobody believes that…the last thing I want to is to engage in a land war or nuclear war with Russia. That's not part of it. I was expressing my outrage at the behavior in this man." pic.twitter.com/T0pXdF0C53
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 28, 2022
Biden doubled down, saying “Nobody believes we’re going to take down, that I was talking about taking down Putin. Nobody believes that…the last thing I want to is to engage in a land war or nuclear war with Russia. That’s not part of it. I was expressing my outrage at the behavior in this man.”
That’s a misnomer. Nobody thought Biden was declaring war on Putin. But it did sound like he was calling for regime change and he’s clearly backed down from that.
The problem is Biden’s lips are running at a different speed than his brain and the White House has to come behind him and correct it. But hey, at least he’s not Trump, right?
Biden can leave Americans behind in Afghanistan along with billions of dollars in military equipment AND allow Russia to finish a pipeline that led them to invade Ukraine and kill thousands of innocent people, but at least he’s not Trump, right?
Worst. President*. Ever.
UPDATE: This goes here as well, where Biden is claiming none of these statements he made actually occurred or something:
Q: "It sounded like you told U.S. troops they were going to Ukraine, it sounded like you said it was possible the U.S. would use a chemical weapon, and it sounded like you were calling for regime change in Russia."
BIDEN: "None of the three occurred."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 28, 2022