Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned on Wednesday that he would like Joe Biden to win the 2024 election in comparison with the front-runner of the Republican main, Donald Trump, calling the Democratic president a “extra predictable” chief.
“Biden, he’s extra skilled, extra predictable, he’s a politician of the outdated formation,” Putin mentioned in an interview with Russian state media, according to The Associated Press. “However we’ll work with any U.S. chief whom the American folks belief.”
However Trump appeared to assume Putin really praised him.
“President Putin of Russia has simply given me a fantastic praise, really,” Trump said throughout a rally in Charleston, South Carolina.
He continued: “Lots of people mentioned, ‘Oh, gee, that’s too unhealthy.’ No, no, that’s a great factor. And, in fact, he would say that.”
Putin’s remarks seem curious given Biden has repeatedly criticized him, and earlier this week condemned Trump for saying that he would enable Russia to do “regardless of the hell they need” to NATO allies in the event that they don’t meet his protection spending necessities.
“No different president in our historical past has ever bowed all the way down to a Russian dictator,” Biden mentioned. “Let me say this as clearly as I can: I by no means will.”
Throughout one other a part of Wednesday’s interview, Putin mentioned Tucker Carlson was softer than he anticipated in his questioning throughout their two-hour sitdown in Moscow final week.
“To be trustworthy, I assumed that he would behave aggressively and ask so-called sharp questions,” he mentioned. “I used to be not simply ready for this, I needed it, as a result of it will give me the chance to reply in the identical method.”
