President Biden suggested Wednesday that last year’s Capitol riot inspired Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine — making the head-turning claim after Republicans said Putin sensed weakness from Biden’s chaotic August withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden abruptly invoked the storming of the US Capitol and claimed rioters killed five cops — only true if counting four subsequent suicides and one cop who died of a stroke — as he concluded his remarks on infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
“Vladimir Putin was counting on being able to split up the United States. Look, how would you feel if you saw crowds storm and break down the doors of the British Parliament and kill five cops, injure 145 — or the German Bundestag or the Italian Parliament?” Biden said.
“I think you’d wonder. That’s what the rest of the world saw. It’s not who we are. And now we’re proving under pressure that we are not that country. We’re united.”
Biden said broad bipartisan blowback proved Putin wrong. Biden announced limited sanctions last week against state-owned Russian banks and certain businessmen. After receiving criticism, Biden applied sanctions to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vast personal wealth and reached an agreement with US allies to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT international banking system.
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