President Biden said Monday that he was expressing “moral outrage” rather than “articulating a policy change” when he said this weekend that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Biden: “I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change. I was expressing moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it.”
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