President Joe Biden on Monday defended his remarks on Saturday about Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reporters pressed him on the topic. “I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards this man. I wasn’t articulating a policy change,” Biden told reporters on Monday. Capping a four-day trip to Europe Saturday, Biden said of Putin near the tail end of a sweeping address in Warsaw: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” words the White House has since aimed to downplay.
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