{"id":1398979,"date":"2022-03-24T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398979"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:15:24","slug":"president-biden-gloats-that-hed-be-fortunate-to-run-against-trump-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-gloats-that-hed-be-fortunate-to-run-against-trump-again\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Gloats That He\u2019d Be \u2018Fortunate\u2019 To Run Against Trump Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresident-biden-gloats-that-hed-be-fortunate-to-run-against-trump-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden gloated that he would be \u201cfortunate\u201d if former President Donald Trump chose to run against him once again in 2024 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the statement to reporters during a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/joe-biden-us-nato-would-respond-russia-chemical-weapons-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a>\u00a0in Brussels, Belgium, where Biden is currently meeting with NATO allies to address Russia\u2019s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. A reporter asked Biden how Europeans can be confident that the U.S. will maintain its support for NATO alliances with the impending presidential election in 2024.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/21\/joe-biden-evolving-intelligence-russian-cyberattacks-us\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Warns Of \u2018Evolving Intelligence\u2019 Surrounding Possible Russian Cyberattacks)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are widespread concerns in Europe that a figure like your predecessor, maybe even your predecessor himself, might get elected president again,\u201d a German reporter for Der Spiegel began. \u201cIs there anything you are trying to do\u2026to prevent what you\u2019re trying to do from becoming undone two years from now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden then delivered a lengthy response, recounting his disgust at Trump\u2019s reaction to the 2017 Charlottesville riots as well as the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6. He claimed to remain confident that he will win the 2024 election, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first G7 meeting I attended \u2026 I sat down and I said \u2018America is back,\u2019 and one of my counterpart heads of state said \u2018For how long?&#8217;\u201d Biden said. \u201cI don\u2019t criticize anybody for asking that question, but in the next election I\u2019d be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Trump himself has heavily hinted that he plans to run again in 2024, but has not yet made a formal announcement. Biden has stated that he plans to run for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also announced a further suite of sanctions against Russia on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/us-sanctions-russian-state-duma-defense-entities-ukraine-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">applying existing sanctions<\/a> to an additional 328 lawmakers within the Russian State Duma, the country\u2019s lower legislative body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of this action, we are also targeting multiple Russian elites to include their properties and family members,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday. \u201cNotably, this will include 17 members of the board of PJSC Sovcombank, a designated entity. These executives join the growing list of individuals associated with blocked Russian financial institutions that now also find themselves subject to U.S. sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, the United States is taking action to impose additional severe costs on Russia\u2019s defense establishment. This includes designating multiple defense-related entities and one associated individual. An important component of today\u2019s action is designating Russian defense companies that are part of Russia\u2019s defense-industrial base and that produce weapons that have been used in Russia\u2019s war of aggression,\u201d Blinken added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden gloated that he would be \u201cfortunate\u201d if former President Donald Trump chose to run against him once again in 2024 on Thursday.Biden made the statement to reporters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}