No, Joe Biden Does Not Have a Proven Record of Defying Dictators

There is no record of Biden standing up to Putin or any dictators — save Saddam Hussein — in any real way.

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Then-Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow in 2011.

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At a campaign event masquerading as an NBC News town hall this week, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden dropped this statement:

The notion that Biden has stood up to the Putins or Castros — or Assads or Mullahs or Xis — in any genuine way is nothing but a retrofitted fantasy.

David Harsanyi

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David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

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