A high-stakes meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is underway in Geneva, Switzerland. Before their meeting on Wednesday, the two leaders shook hands before going inside for the closed-door talks but offered remarks to reporters. During a scrum with media outlets and amid heavy security, a reporter asked Biden about whether he trusts Putin, in which he appeared to nod up and down. “Biden looked at her and nodded in the affirmative,” according to a White House pool reporter But White House officials later said that he wasn’t nodding in agreement to the question. “It was a chaotic scrum with reporters shouting over each other. President Biden was very clearly not responding to any one question, but nodding in acknowledgment to the press generally,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield told reporters on Wednesday. And White House press secretary Jen Psaki also pushed back on the …
White House Responds to Claim That Biden Nodded in Agreement About Trusting Putin
June 16, 2021
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