Women Reporters Ask Putin and Biden Reasonable Questions, Get Garbage Responses
Putin said that Russia felt “sympathy” for the US [following the Floyd protests] and doesn’t want such demonstrations to happen within its borders.
“If all your political opponents are dead, in prison, poisoned — doesn’t that send a message that you don’t want a fair political fight?” Scott pressed. “As for who is killing whom and throwing whom in jail, people came to the US Congress with political demands,” Putin said. “They face prison sentences of up to 20, maybe even 25 years.”
“I’m not confident,” Biden said. “Where the hell — what do you do all the time? When did I say I was confident?”
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