White House Scrambles to Cover-Up Biden’s Disastrous Remarks about Putin
Remarks interpreted as him calling for regime change in Russia
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The White House was forced to do damage control again following highly problematic remarks made by Democrat President Joe Biden during his trip to Poland this week.
Biden said on Saturday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw:
“A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people’s love for liberty.”
“Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness.
"For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
The White House had to quickly clean up Biden’s remarks after they were widely interpreted as him calling for regime change in Russia.
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“The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” a White House official said.
“He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
🚨President Biden ended his speech seeming to call for regime change in Russia: “For Gods sake, this man cannot remain in power!”
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) March 26, 2022
Immediately after, a WH official walks that back. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.” pic.twitter.com/kFCJGacwNH
The administration also had to clean up Biden’s remarks in Poland on Friday when he appeared to tell U.S. soldiers that they would be getting deployed to Ukraine, which would represent a serious escalation in the ongoing conflict, and would draw NATO into the war against Russia.
ABC News reported:
Biden “raised eyebrows when he appeared to tell the group that American troops will be going into Ukraine, though he has repeatedly said that he will not send troops there.”
"You know, with the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian people have a lot of backbone, they have a lot of guts and I’m sure you’re observing it,” Biden said.
"And you’re gonna see when you’re there, and some of you have been there.”
"You’re gonna see, you’re gonna see women, young people standing, standing in the middle, in front of a damn tank, just saying I’m not leaving,” he added.
"I’m holding my ground. They’re incredible.
"But they take a lot of inspiration from us.”
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The Biden administration had to swiftly clean up after the president by issuing a statement claiming that his position on deploying U.S. soldiers had not changed.
“The president has been clear we are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position,” the administration said.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the U.S. has "no intention” of using chemical weapons and that what Biden meant was that Russia would pay a “severe price.”
“And I won’t go beyond that other than to say the United States has no intention of using chemical weapons, period, under any circumstances."
“I will just say, with respect to any use of weapons of mass destruction — nuclear, chemical, biological — Russia would pay a severe price.”
