Last night.
Washington DC, USA
US President Joe Biden stood by his belief that Vladimir Putin should not be president of Russia, telling reporters that he made “no apologies” for his unscripted remarks.
Via Huffington Post:
“I’m not walking anything back,” the president said..
“I was expressing moral outrage, and I make no apologies,” he added.
Speaking in Poland at the end of his four-day trip to Europe on Sunday, Biden said of Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
The line came at the end of a 27-minute speech and was ad-libbed by a president famous for doing so.
Joe Biden: ‘No Apologies’ For Saying Putin ‘Cannot Remain In Power’ (Huffington Post)
Meanwhile…
Leon Panetta says on CNN that Biden’s gaffe in Europe about regime change came about because Biden is Irish, and his instinct to internalize human suffering may have overwhelmed him to the point where he was not careful about what he said. Biden needs more discipline Panetta says
— Gordon Lubold (@glubold) March 28, 2022
Ah here.
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