{"id":15678,"date":"2024-02-17T00:46:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T00:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/biden-after-navalnys-death-says-no-doubt-that-putin-and-his-thugs-were-behind-it\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T00:46:24","slug":"biden-after-navalnys-death-says-no-doubt-that-putin-and-his-thugs-were-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/biden-after-navalnys-death-says-no-doubt-that-putin-and-his-thugs-were-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, after Navalny\u2019s death, says \u2018no doubt\u2019 that \u2018Putin and his thugs\u2019 were behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">President Biden said on Friday, following news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, that there is \u2018no doubt\u2019 it was a \u2018consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Russian officials said Navalny reported feeling unwell following a walk at the penal colony where he was jailed in Siberia before losing consciousness and dying. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny\u2019s death. Putin is responsible,\u2019 Biden told reporters at the White House. \u2018What has happened to Navalny is yet more proof of Putin\u2019s brutality. No one should be fooled, not in Russia, not at home, not anywhere in the world.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The answer is, we don\u2019t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that the death of Navalny was a consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did,\u2019 Biden added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018People across Russia and around the world are mourning Navalny today, because he was so many things that Putin was not,\u2019 Biden continued. \u2018He was brave, he was principled, he was dedicated to building a Russia where the rule of law existed and where it applied to everybody. Navalny believed in that Russia, that Russia, he knew it was a cause worth fighting for and obviously even dying for.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, President Biden, after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland, was asked about what would happen if Navalny were to die in Russian custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I made it clear to him that I believe the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia,\u2019 Biden said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked about that remark Friday, Biden said,That was three years ago andn the meantime, they faced a hell of a lot of consequences,\u2019 referring to Russian troop losses in the war in Ukraine and international sanctions waged against their government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I just want to say \u2018God bless Alexei Navalny,\u2019\u2019 Biden concluded. \u2018His courage will not be forgotten.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden said on Friday, following news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, that there is \u2018no doubt\u2019 it was a \u2018consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did.\u2019\u00a0 Russian officials said Navalny reported feeling unwell following a walk at the penal colony where he was jailed in Siberia before losing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}