Head of U.S. European Command: Actually, We’re Not Training the Ukrainians Like Biden Said

The White House continues to assert that President Biden exclaiming, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power!” does not mean that Biden believes that Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power.

Q: And, Kate, on the subject of the President’s remarks in Poland about President Putin: Obviously, yesterday, he tried to suggest that there was a distinction between his personal views of what he thought was a moral outrage versus an official policy position on the part of the United States.

But you know full well something that candidate Joe Biden said virtually every day on the campaign trail, which is that the words of a president matter; that they can, as he often put it, lead a country into war.

Is he not living up to the standard that he set himself during the campaign?

MS. BEDINGFIELD:  Absolutely not.  I think the words of the President here were incredibly powerful.  He spoke personally about the moral outrage that he felt, which is shared by people all across the world.  It does not mean he’s articulating a change in policy.  It does not mean he’s laying out a change in U.S. policy.