{"id":229762,"date":"2021-03-19T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229762"},"modified":"2021-03-20T06:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:49:45","slug":"putin-challenges-biden-to-debate-after-president-calls-him-a-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229762","title":{"rendered":"Putin challenges Biden to debate after president calls him a &#8216;killer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Patrick Reevell \u2013 ABC News March 18, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/putin-grip-russia-support-waning\/story?id=76374376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> has reacted to President <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden<\/a> calling him a &#8220;killer&#8221; by challenging Biden to take part in a conversation with him broadcast live online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just thought of this now,\u201d Putin told a Russian state television reporter. \u201cI want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it\u2019s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s invitation seemed to amount to a challenge to Biden to a live televised debate, following a day of diplomatic uproar that began when Biden said he thought Putin was a \u201ckiller\u201d in an interview with ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos. Russia recalled its ambassador to the United States in response to the remark.<\/p>\n<p>After issuing his invitation, Putin said he didn\u2019t want to delay, proposing he and Biden hold the discussion as early as Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to put this off for long. I want to go the taiga this weekend to relax a little,\u201d Putin said. \u201cSo we could do it tomorrow or Monday. We are ready at any time convenient for the American side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continues \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/putin-challenges-biden-debate-president-calls-killer\/story?id=76539031\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/putin-challenges-biden-debate-president-calls-killer\/story?id=76539031<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As expected:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Biden team shuts down bizarre Putin suggestion of live debate over \u2018killer\u2019 comments: \u2018He\u2019s quite busy\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/biden-putin-killer-debate-b1819407.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unlikely that Biden, or more precisely his handlers, will accept. They know that it will expose the president\u2019s dementia. That\u2019s why Putin proposed holding the debate today because the Americans won\u2019t have enough time to prepare a body double or teleprompters\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229763,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229762\/revisions\/229763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}