Democrat President Joe Biden suffered another brain freeze while addressing the nation about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death.
He said he was “both not surprised and outraged” by the news.
Biden praised Navalny for standing up to “corruption, to violence, to all the bad things that the Putin government is doing.”
He also stated unequivocally that Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible for his death.
“Putin had him poisoned, he had him arrested, had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes, he sentenced him to prison,” Biden said.
“Even in prison, he was a powerful voice for the truth.”
Soon after that, the real reason for the address to the nation started to unfold.
Biden and the Democrats apparently sought to exploit the story to push for more funding for Ukraine and attack President Donald Trump.
“This tragedy reminds us of the stakes of this moment, we have to provide the funding so Ukraine can keep defending itself,” Biden claimed.
“I mean this in a literal sense: history is watching.
“History is watching the House of Representatives.”
“The failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten,” Biden continued.
“It’s going to go down in the pages