Biden calls Putin ‘a crazy SOB’ and ridicules Trump at San Francisco fundraiser
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President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a crazy SOB” and made fun of Donald Trump for comparing himself to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a fundraiser Wednesday night in San Francisco.
Biden largely focused on environmental concerns at the campaign event, while taking digs at Putin and Trump.
“We have a crazy SOB like that guy Putin, and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate,” he said according to a print pool report.
Biden then scoffed at Trump for comparing his legal troubles to the political persecution of Navalny, an outspoken Putin critic who died in a Russian prison last week. During a Fox News town hall Tuesday, Trump described the $350 million business fraud judgment he faces as “a form of Navalny.”
Biden called Trump’s remarks unhinged. “If I stood here 10 to 15 years ago and said all this, you’d all think I should be committed,” he said.
Trump’s campaign clapped back, saying Biden is the one who