{"id":1417972,"date":"2022-04-04T12:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417972"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:29:56","slug":"biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-for-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-for-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Calls For War Crimes Trial For Putin"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbiden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-for-putin%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=1417972&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 called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, upon landing in Washington, D.C., told reporters Monday that he stands by a past declaration that Putin is \u201ca war criminal.\u201d The president <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/16\/biden-calls-putin-a-war-criminal\/\">first<\/a> made this comment March 16, just days before the U.S. would <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/23\/us-government-russian-forces-committed-war-crimes-ukraine-antony-blinken\/\">announce<\/a> its assessment \u201cthat members of Russia\u2019s forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal. Well, the truth of the matter \u2013\u00a0we saw it happen in Bucha \u2013 this warrants him \u2013\u00a0he [Putin] is a war criminal,\u201d Biden said Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president went on to note that the administration has to \u201cgather the information\u201d in order to go forward with a war crimes trial. He referenced recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/04\/russia-retreat-mass-graves-war-crimes-bucha\/\">reported<\/a> scenes from areas of Ukraine controlled by Russian forces before their withdrawal, including mass graves reported in Bucha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have to gather the information. We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight, and we have to get all the detail so this could be \u2013 actual have a war crimes trial. This guy is brutal, and what\u2019s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone\u2019s seen it,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the Russian army retreated from the suburbs of Kyiv and other areas of Ukraine. With their retreat came reports of massacres, with hundreds left dead.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1510597832423653378\">called<\/a> the aftermath a \u201cgenocide\u201d during an interview Sunday on CBS News. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/01\/republicans-russia-ukraine-genocide-military-aid\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Republicans Call Russian Invasion Of Ukraine \u2018Genocide,\u2019 Urge Biden To Amp Up Arms Sharing)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities. We are the citizens of Ukraine, and we don\u2019t want to be subdued to the policy of the Russian Federation. This is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated, and this is happening in the Europe of the 21st century. So this is the torture of the whole nation,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, however, said he didn\u2019t believe the actions were \u201cgenocide\u201d when pressed on the subject Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I think it is a war crime,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin.Biden, upon landing in Washington, D.C., told reporters Monday that he stands by a past declaration that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"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-1417972","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\/1417972","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417972\/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=1417972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}