The off-the-cuff comments, made at a pair of West Coast fundraisers, aren’t the first time the U.S. leader has gone off script at private events to raise money for his campaign ahead of November elections.
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President Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” and took a swipe at Republican rival Donald Trump for likening himself to Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died last week in a remote prison.
The off-the-cuff comments, made at a pair of West Coast fundraisers, aren’t the first time the U.S. leader has gone off script at private events to raise money for his campaign ahead of November elections. Polls show Biden and Trump, his predecessor, slugging it out in a rematch of the 2016 race that is growing into an increasingly uglier war of words.
“We have a crazy SOB like that guy Putin, and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict,” Biden said Wednesday at one event, adding that climate change is still society’s existential threat.
In a Fox News town hall on Tuesday night, Trump compared his legal troubles to Navalny’s fate, calling the activist’s death a “very sad situation” and asserting that his four criminal indictments are politically motivated.
