(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden had to refer to a printed cheat sheet as he tried to explain his unscripted claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” the New York Post reported.
Biden, 79, told reporters he made “no apologies” for his off-the-cuff remarks in his address in Poland, and insisted it was not a provocation of Russia.
“It’s more an aspiration than anything. He shouldn’t be in power,” Biden said in a press conference.
“There’s no—I mean, people like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do. The fact is they do, but it doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it.”
His comments aligned with notes printed on a note card he was holding as he spoke, which read:
- If you weren’t advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify?
- I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards the actions of this man
- I was not articulating a change in policy
Biden has been caught using cheat sheets when addressing reporters and voters, both as president and as a candidate, including one identifying reporters he planned to call on.
“I’ll take your questions, and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I’m going to call on,” Biden told the assembled media at the G20 summit in Rome.
CNN and ABC have rushed to spin the story, initially insisting that Biden’s “Irish temper” got in the way and he was expressing “moral outrage.”
So that’s freedom of the press? He takes only pre arranged questions that he has answers written out for him just to make him look good? I thought the press’ job was to hold political figures accountable.
— TattooedB1k3r Gaming (@WarrenSummers16) March 29, 2022
Biden had to have “I was not articulating a change in policy” written verbatim on a notecard so he wouldn’t screw it up… and he still screwed it up pic.twitter.com/OvEwlHQVry
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) March 28, 2022
Isn’t the bigger point that he had the press questions in advance?
— Go Vote 2024 (@GoVote2024) March 28, 2022
