First he said it, then his administration pulled out the industrial strength mops for cleanup, and now
Biden reverses course again, now says he does support regime change in Russia pic.twitter.com/RXi9JaoSD2
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 28, 2022
Will we get another round of “the Biden administration does mean what Biden says”?
(Fox News) Biden insisted he is not “walking back” his comments, seeking to separate his wish for Putin not to be leading Russia from an official policy that would seek to remove him.
“I was expressing my outrage at the behavior of this man,” Biden said, calling the Russian president’s behavior “outrageous” and that his comments about him were “more an aspiration than anything.”
“He shouldn’t be in power,” Biden added. “People like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do, in fact. They do. But, doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it.”
“I’m not walking anything back. The fact of the matter is, I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing and the actions of this man, which is just brutality,” said Biden.
“But I want to make it clear: I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change. I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it,” he added.
Does Biden, a guy who’s been in Government since taking office as a Senator in 1973, a guy who was picked to be Obama’s VP due to his vast (snicker) foreign policy experience, who pimped that same experience for the 2020 election, understand how this whole Presidenting thing works? A president doesn’t get to simply express moral outrage when dealing with the leader of a nuclear weapons armed nation.
