President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” on Wednesday, ahead of what the White House says will be the unveiling of new sanctions against the country later this week.
Press pool reports shared the quote from Biden from his remarks at a campaign event in San Francisco as part of a fundraising swing in California with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and others in attendance.
“This is the last existential threat, it is climate. 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,” Biden said.
The White House said the Biden administration will unveil new sanctions against Russia on Friday in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as well as Russia’s two-year war in Ukraine.
Russian authorities said last week that…
