State Dept. won’t confirm Biden’s finding that Putin is a ‘dictator’

Published July 28, 2016 6:18pm ET



The State Department on Thursday refused to defend Vice President Joe Biden’s Wednesday-night comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “dictator.”

Biden made the remark at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, as he criticized Donald Trump for embracing Putin and other “dictators.”

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