Putin typically said he would prefer a Joe Biden presidency to Donald Trump and explained the reasons. Biden was the most experienced and predictable person, he said in comments sure to make an impression.
It is noted that before Trump’s first bid for the presidency in 2016, Putin had praised him as “excellent and talented”.
Current President Biden has been a staunch critic of Putin for years, calling him a “murderer” before the invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian president also commented on his recent interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, saying he found it disappointing because the questions were not sharp enough.
Speaking on Russian television in an interview he gave on Wednesday (14/2), Putin said that Biden’s leadership would be better for Russia because he is “a more experienced person, he is predictable, he is a politician of the old formation”.
He then dismissed questions regarding Biden’s age and mental health and said that when they last met in 2021, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual.
“Even then people said he was incompetent, but I didn’t see that,” he said. “Yeah, he kept looking at his papers, but to be honest, I kept doing the same. Therefore, there was nothing strange.”
However, his other comments regarding Biden were not so positive: He called the US president’s condemnation of the war in Ukraine “extremely damaging and wrong.”
In the run-up to the 2016 US election, Trump had suggested that Putin himself would do very well.
Trump recently sparked outrage when he said he would “encourage” Russia to attack any NATO member that failed to meet the US-led alliance’s economic contribution target of 2 percent of its GDP.
In response, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg asked Trump not to “undermine” the alliance’s collective security guarantee.
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