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Three times Biden went off script and forced White House into cleanup mode

By Naomi Lim
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Three times Biden went off script and forced White House into cleanup mode

President Joe Biden’s lack of message discipline has created multiple headaches for the White House communications shop, and his calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” this week is no exception.

When Biden privately apologized to former President Barack Obama in 2012 for publicly supporting gay marriage before him, White House aides conveyed that Obama had accepted Biden’s regrets because he knew his deputy was speaking from the heart.

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