White House Races to Clarify Biden’s Impromptu Putin Remark

President Joe Biden’s speechwriters likely anticipated a number of potential headlines to come out of his speech in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday. Perhaps it would be his galvanizing rhetoric about the global response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, in which “democracies of the world are revitalized.” Or his exhortation that Western allies ready themselves for the “new battle of freedom” ahead. Or maybe it would be his poetic pronouncement that “a dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to erase the people’s love for liberty.” The one-liner many news outlets ended up going with,… Read Full Article