{"id":1405670,"date":"2022-03-28T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405670"},"modified":"2022-03-28T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:00:18","slug":"joe-biden-clarifies-again-call-for-removing-vladimir-putin-was-aspiration-not-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-clarifies-again-call-for-removing-vladimir-putin-was-aspiration-not-policy-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Clarifies Again: Call for Removing Vladimir Putin Was &#039;Aspiration&#039; Not Policy Change"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-clarifies-again-call-for-removing-vladimir-putin-was-aspiration-not-policy-change%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=1405670&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 class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden tried to clarify his comment about calling for regime change in Russia after trying to walk back his comments from a speech in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not walking back anything,\u201d he told reporters at the White House when asked about his assertion that \u201cfor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden\u2019s comment prompted concern and alarm from foreign policy experts and leaders around the world who criticized the president for needlessly escalating the conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Biden stressed he was not calling for a change in policy toward Putin and Russia, just sharing his outrage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward this man. I wasn\u2019t articulating a policy change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>When asked to explain his comment, Biden said he was reacting emotionally to Putin\u2019s actions after meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was expressing my outrage at the behavior of this man. It\u2019s outrageous. It\u2019s outrageous and it\u2019s more of an aspiration than anything \u2013 he shouldn\u2019t be in power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople like this shouldn\u2019t be ruling countries, but they do \u2026 doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t voice my outrage about it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden appeared frustrated that anyone interpreted his comment as a change in policy toward Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous. Nobody believes we\u2019re going to take down\u2026 I was talking about taking down Putin,\u201d he complained. \u201cNobody believes that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said he was \u201ctalking to the Russian people\u201d and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just stating a simple fact, that this kind of behavior is totally unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president warned Putin that he had endangered his political position in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he continues on this course that he\u2019s on, he is going to be a pariah worldwide, and who knows what he becomes at home in terms of support?\u201d He asked.<\/p>\n<p>When Biden was asked if he believed his comment needlessly escalated the conflict with Putin, Biden replied, \u201cNo I\u2019m not. Not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked about his three different comments during his trip to Europe that had to be clarified by the White House, Biden denied they even happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the three occurred, you interpreted the language that way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden tried to clarify his comment about calling for regime change in Russia after trying to walk back his comments from a speech in Poland. \u201cI\u2019m not walking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-1405670","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\/1405670","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405670\/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=1405670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}