Bidenmade Trump look a paragon of discretion
“Trump revealed intelligence secrets to Russians in Oval Office.” That 2017 Reuters headline came about after the newly minted president was accused of risking an allied intelligence asset (it turned out to be Israeli) after sharing information on ISIS with the Russians.
Fast-forward to 2022, and as President Biden bared his soul to the Russians at a rambling press conference last week, he made Trump look a paragon of discretion.
Having warned Putin of “disastrous” consequences for attacking Ukraine, Biden seemed to indicate that a limited foray wouldn’t trigger a response. “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion, and we [in NATO] end up fighting about what we should do, not do,” he said.
Handed an opportunity to dig himself out of his hole by a journalist asking whether he had just green-lighted an invasion, Biden dug deeper, saying, “It did sound like that, didn’t it?”
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