Biden Says Putin Remark Showed Outrage, Not Change in Policy
- President says Russian leader ‘shouldn’t remain in power’
- ‘I don’t care what he thinks,’ Biden says of Putin reaction
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President Joe Biden said he wasn’t announcing a U.S. policy change when he declared Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” but was expressing his own anger about the invasion of Ukraine.
“I’m not walking anything back. The fact of the matter is I was expressing the moral outrage I felt,” Biden told reporters Monday at the White House, after he was asked if he regretted a remark that had caused alarm in some allied capitals.