{"id":2009687,"date":"2023-08-23T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-surprised-biden-suggests-putin-could-be-behind-plane-crash-carrying-wagner-boss\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:02:07","slug":"im-not-surprised-biden-suggests-putin-could-be-behind-plane-crash-carrying-wagner-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-surprised-biden-suggests-putin-could-be-behind-plane-crash-carrying-wagner-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden hints at Putin&#8217;s involvement in plane crash with Wagner leader."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fim-not-surprised-biden-suggests-putin-could-be-behind-plane-crash-carrying-wagner-boss%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=2009687&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--><h2>President Biden Reacts to Plane Crash \u200cInvolving Wagner Group Chief<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden expressed\u2062 his \u200dlack of surprise upon learning that the chief of the Wagner Group, who had\u200d revolted against Russian President \u2063Vladimir Putin, \u2062was on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-i-got-a-covid-test-four-times-in-one-day-two-came-back-negative-two-came-back-positive-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: I Got A COVID Test Four Times In One Day. \u2018Two Came Back Negative, Two Came Back Positive.\u2019 | The Daily Wire\">plane<\/a> that crashed near Moscow. Despite just finishing a\u200c Pilates\u2062 class in Nevada during his \u2064vacation, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-josh-hawley-challenges-pennsylvania-senator-pat-toomey-to-a-debate-about-election-fraud-on-the-senate-floor\/\" title=\"Senator Josh Hawley Challenges Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey to a Debate About Election Fraud on the Senate Floor\">president responded<\/a> to \u2062the news with a mix of skepticism and humor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You may recall, when I was asked about this \u200cby you, I said, \u2018I\u2019d\u2063 be careful what\u200d I rode in,'&#8221; the president said.\u200d &#8220;I don\u2019t know\u2063 for a fact what happened, but\u200b I\u2019m not surprised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A private\u2062 plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of\u2064 the Wagner Group, a prominent\u200b Russian private military\u200d company, crashed northwest of Moscow on August 23. All \u200d10 passengers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-surprised-biden-suggests-putin-could-be-behind-plane-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beverly-hills-goes-maga-as-thousands-of-trump-supporters-rally\/\" title=\"Beverly Hills Goes MAGA as Thousands of Trump Supporters Rally\">crash<\/a>-carrying-wagner-boss\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Biden hints at Putin&#8217;s involvement in plane crash with Wagner leader.&#8221;>board tragically lost<\/a> their lives in\u200c the\u2062 crash, which occurred in the Tver\u2064 Oblast region. Speculation suggests\u200b that Russian air defense systems \u200bmay have been responsible for shooting down \u200dthe\u200d plane.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/wagner-boss-yevgeny-prigozhin-listed-as-passenger-in-fatal-plane-crash-5479265\">Wagner Boss Behind Failed Russian Coup Listed as Passenger \u200cin Fatal Plane Crash<\/a><br \/>\n    <br \/>\n    <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/23\/2023<\/span>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/russian-mercenary-leader-yevgeny-prigozhin-said-to-be-recruiting-wagner-strongmen-for-africa-5478027\">Russian Mercenary Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin \u200dSaid\u2063 to Be Recruiting Wagner &#8216;Strongmen&#8217; for Africa<\/a><br \/>\n    <br \/>\n    <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/22\/2023<\/span>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When\u2063 asked \u200dif President Putin could be involved, President \u2063Biden responded, &#8220;There\u2019s not much that happens in Russia that Putin&#8217;s not behind. But I don\u2019t know enough to know the answer. I\u2019ve been\u2064 working out\u2064 for the last hour \u2063and a half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden made these remarks while \u200benjoying his vacation\u2062 with several family members at\u2063 Lake Tahoe, Nevada. According to the White House, the president\u2063 participated in a Pilates class followed by a spin\u200c class.<\/p>\n<p>Yevgeny Prigozhin had previously launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defiant-mark-meadows-slams-the-democrats-theyre-not-going-to-intimidate-me\/\" title=\"Defiant Mark Meadows Slams the Democrats: \u2018They\u2019re Not Going to Intimidate Me\u2019\">failed coup attempt<\/a> against President Putin in\u200d June, leading to his departure for Belarus. \u200bDuring the insurrection, President Putin labeled Prigozhin \u2062a traitor\u200b and threatened to punish \u200chim \u2064and his \u200dgroup. However, a criminal \u200dcase against Prigozhin was later dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden, after his Pilates class in Nevada, expressed no surprise upon learning that the Wagner Group leader, who rebelled against Putin, was on a plane crash near Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":2009688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009687","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\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}