Biden: Putin Is A ‘Killer’, He ‘ll ‘Pay A Price’

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President Joe Biden said he agrees with the assessment that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is a “killer.”

In an interview with ABC News broadcast on Wednesday, Biden said Putin will “pay a price” for allegedly trying to undermine Biden’s candidacy in the US 2020 election.

Asked if he thought Putin is “a killer,” Biden said: “I do.”

His pre-taped remarks aired after the U.S. intelligence community’s first assessment of foreign interference in the campaign.

The report said Putin likely authorized influence operations aimed at promoting then-President Donald Trump and discrediting Biden’s candidacy.

“He will pay a price,” Biden said in response to the findings.

Biden told ABC News that he had a “long chat” with Putin and that “the price he will pay you will see shortly”.

Biden said he had warned Putin of potential consequences to election meddling when the two spoke following his inauguration in January.

“We had a long talk, he and I, when we — I know him relatively well. And the conversation started off, I said, ‘I know you and you know me. If I establish this [interference] occurred, then be prepared.”

Asked whether he thinks the Russian president is a “killer,” Biden replied: “I do.”

He noted that there are still areas in which Moscow and Washington can find common ground despite the two powers’ chilled relations.

“There are places where it’s in our mutual interest to work together,” he said. “That’s why I renewed the [New] START agreement. That occurred while he’s doing this.”

Biden also described his March 2011 meeting with Putin, who was then Russia’s prime minister, saying: “President Bush had said I looked in his eyes and saw his soul. I said look in your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul. He looked back and he said, ‘We understand each other’.”

The U.S. intelligence report’s findings are likely to be followed by the Biden administration’s announcement of new sanctions as soon as next week, CNN and Reuters reported, citing unnamed officials.

Biden did not elaborate on the possible Russian sanctions during the ABC News interview.

Biden’s comments drew immediate condemnation from the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament Vyacheslav Volodin, who called them an “attack on Russia” and “hysteria due to weakness.”

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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