In his first public comments about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would prefer to see President Joe Biden win, whom he considers “more experienced [and] more predictable” than former President Donald Trump. He added that Biden is “a politician of the old formation.” Putin made the remarks during an interview with Russian state television on Wednesday in Moscow.
Putin went on to say he “believe[s] that the position of the current administration is badly flawed and wrong, and I have told President Biden about that,” but noted that “[W]e will work with any U.S. leader whom the American people trust.”
Asked to weigh in on Biden’s cognitive issues, Putin replied that “I’m not a doctor and I don’t consider it proper to comment on that.”
Of course, Putin would like to see another five years of Biden. So would Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and the mullahs in Iran. Biden’s weakness has allowed them to flex their muscles on the world stage with impunity.
Biden’s reckless decision to abruptly withdraw United States troops from Afghanistan in August 2021 set into motion an unstoppable sequence of events that have made the world a far more dangerous place. America’s humiliating military retreat shook the balance of power across the globe profoundly and irrevocably. Biden’s massive display of weakness and his abdication of duty as the leader of the free world created a power vacuum and, well aware of the opportunity this presented, the tyrants of the world joined forces to exploit it.
Within months, Russian President Vladimir Putin began massing troops near the Ukrainian border in preparation for his February 2022 invasion. Shortly before launching his “special military operation,” Putin joined Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing for talks where the two announced a friendship without limits.
Putin has no respect for Biden. He never did. In his book titled “Joe Biden Unauthorized: And the 2020 Crackup of the Democratic Party,” former White House stenographer Mike McCormick, who spent six years at Biden’s side as he met with world leaders, recounted an incident that allegedly occurred during Biden’s first state visit to Moscow as vice president in 2011. In fact, McCormick devoted an entire chapter, called “B**** Slapped in Moscow,” to the story.
During a September 2020 interview with the Washington Free Beacon, McCormick said that, ahead of a joint news conference with Putin, Biden’s staffers had “made a big deal about how Putin really dominated the conversation [with] Obama” during a previous meeting. But they were sure that Biden, because of his “decades of Senate foreign policy experience,” would never allow that to happen.
According to McCormick, when it was Biden’s turn to speak, he “launched into a soliloquy about his visits to Russia during the Cold War” when suddenly, Biden’s microphone was cut off. Then “the press lighting was switched off, and Putin’s aides ushered the media out of the room.”
“They went out quickly and efficiently, with video cameras popping off of tripods. Equipment snapping shut. Portable lights clattering down retractable poles. No one spoke, and no one dared linger.”
McCormick told the Free Beacon Putin had “publicly humiliated” Biden.
He later detailed the story in an article published by The National Pulse. “Biden got b**** slapped, and he’s pretending he didn’t,” McCormick wrote. “Putin knows what happened. He was there. He knows he compromised Joe Biden, who appeared unprepared to deal with the ruthless, former-KGB agent. Regardless, Joe continues to perpetuate his ‘I was the tough guy’ lie.”
“He basically got body-slammed by Putin, really. I mean, I don’t know how else to describe it,” McCormick said. “To me it was like, here’s our great foreign policy expert and he just got punk’d. And Vladimir Putin just had no fear or respect for him.”
“Across the table, I could see Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, in the now dimly lit room, looking as duped as an exhausted fish in the bottom of a boat,” he noted. “No protest, no complaint. No, hey, I wasn’t finished. Nothing. He was humiliated.”
“The most powerful man in Russia had neither fear nor respect for Joe Biden. He had just played with him for sport.”
The end of the official White House transcript reads:
“VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: There’s a reason, Mr. Prime Minister. Mr. Prime Minister, I’ve been around a long time. The first time I was here — the second time I was here, I was meeting with President Brezhnev. We were trying to pass SALT II — END”
Naturally, news of this very public, very deliberate alleged indignity “never made it into media coverage of the trip.”
It’s important to remember that, contrary to Biden’s current diminished condition, he was at the top of his game in 2011. But even in his prime, Biden was never considered a formidable or even a particularly strong leader. Putin’s lack of respect for the U.S. vice president was unmistakable, even then.
McCormick was right. Putin had neither fear nor respect for Biden. And nothing has changed. This is one endorsement that no presidential candidate would welcome.
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