{"id":24062,"date":"2024-02-23T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24062"},"modified":"2024-02-23T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:01:07","slug":"biden-calls-putin-a-crazy-sob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24062","title":{"rendered":"Biden calls Putin a \u2018crazy SOB\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\"><u>President Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Wednesday called Russian President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/vladimir-putin\/\"><u>Vladimir Putin\u2002<\/u><\/a>a \u201ccrazy SOB\u201d and bashed former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>for his reaction to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Biden was talking about climate change at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Calif., when he referred to Putin as an acronym for \u201cson of a bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThis is the last existential threat, it is climate. We have a crazy SOB like that guy Putin, and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The president has squarely blamed Putin for Navalny\u2019s death in a Russian prison last week. Biden also took aim at Trump, who didn\u2019t mention Putin in his response to Navalny\u2019s death,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4476703-trumps-first-remarks-about-navalny-compare-russians-death-to-his-own-legal-situation\/\"><u>and instead complained<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;about prosecutors, judges and Democrats conspiring against him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIf I stood here 10 to 15 years ago and said all this, you\u2019d all think I should be committed,\u201d Biden said of Trump\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The president said that Republicans once had an \u201cAmerican moral center, but that seems to be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The comment comes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4480328-biden-knocks-trump-over-navalny-comparison\/\"><u>after Biden\u2002knocked\u2002Trump<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday for his response to Navalny\u2019s death, saying he refuses to hold Putin accountable for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The White House is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4478638-white-house-major-sanctions-package-against-russia-after-navalnys-death-coming-friday\/\"><u>set to release<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;a major sanctions package against Russia on Friday. It is expected to hold Russia accountable for what happened to the opposition leader and add to the sanctions against Russia since the start of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4482014-biden-calls-putin-crazy-sob\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2002on Wednesday called Russian President&nbsp;Vladimir Putin\u2002a \u201ccrazy SOB\u201d and bashed former&nbsp;President Trump\u2002for his reaction to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Biden was talking about climate change at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Calif., when he referred to Putin as an acronym for \u201cson of a bitch.\u201d \u201cThis is the last existential threat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1169,26784,4451,26783],"class_list":["post-24062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-navalny","tag-putin","tag-the-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24064,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions\/24064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}