During a sitdown interview with ABC News this week, President Biden claimed to have known Vladimir Putin for 40 years despite the fact that the Russian President spent most of the 1980s in the KGB.
“I’ve known him for over 40 years. He’s concerned me for 40 years. He’s not a decent man,” Biden, 81, told David Muir during an interview in France at the Normandy American Cemetery to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Watch the clip below:
Biden just said he’s known Putin for 40 years
Russia was still the USSR in the 80s and Putin was not in office pic.twitter.com/mEYPbsdn9w
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 6, 2024
From The New York Post:
Putin worked as an intelligence officer in the Soviet Union’s spy network from 1975 to 1991, with postings in his hometown of St. Petersburg and the former East Germany before he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel — making it highly unlikely Biden was aware of the future US adversary’s existence as early as he claimed.
Putin went on to serve as an aide to St. Petersburg’s then-mayor Anatoly Sobchak and as deputy mayor from 1991 to 1996, followed by stints as a staff member at the Kremlin and head of the Federal Security Service, which succeeded the KGB after the USSR’s collapse in 1991, according to the Guardian.
Biden’s gaffes are under increased scrutiny in the wake of the damning Wall Street Journal article that revealed Biden’s cognitive struggle behind closed doors.
More over at The New York Post:
Biden claims he’s ‘known’ Russia’s Vladimir Putin ‘for over 40 years’ — even when he was undercover KGB agent https://t.co/X7Mts3cdrP pic.twitter.com/5dai1vrKnO
— New York Post (@nypost) June 6, 2024