A television host on Russian state TV has called for regime changed in the United States and for 45th President Donald Trump to be put back in office. The development comes after the Biden administration walked back the American president’s comments calling for regime change in Russia last week.
Russian TV host Evgeny Popov made the remarks on Russian program 60 Minutes on Channel One yesterday.
“It’s time for us, our people, to call on the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early,” said Popov. “And to once again help our partner, Trump, to become president.”
Just yesterday Trump went viral for telling Real America’s Voice that Russian President Vladimir Putin should release information about Hunter Biden’s business deals in Moscow, something the former president has unsuccessfully attempted to ask about since the presidential debates in 2020.
🇷🇺Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Host Evgeny Popov says it's time for the Russian people to call on Americans to change "the regime in the U.S." before its term expires "and to *again* help *our partner * Trump to become President." pic.twitter.com/HOY2BwpwOx
— UKR REPORT (@UKR_Report) March 30, 2022
American media seems to have reached the consensus that the remarks came in retribution for Joe Biden’s suggestion that Putin must be removed from power.
Biden told an audience in Poland that Putin “cannot remain in power” because of the war in Ukraine. Newsweek describes the following days as “damage control” for the White House.
First, a White House staffer immediately told the media that Biden was not calling for regime change in Russia. Then, this was confirmed by Biden’s State Department. Then, yesterday, Biden claimed he never actually called for regime change in the first place, and denied that the White House corrected him.
The corrections came as even Democrats rebuked Biden, including President Barack Obama’s former CIA director.
Others, however, insinuated that Popov may have been insinuating that Russia helped Trump achieve office in 2016, a proven conspiracy theory that was concocted by top Democrats in the waning days of the 2016 campaign.
Trump is now suing many of those Democrats in a RICO lawsuit.
Trump, meanwhile, has insisted that the invasion of Ukraine would not have happened under his watch.
He has boasted publicly that he told Putin he would bomb Moscow if Russia acted against Ukraine during his time in office, and has noted that his presidency has been the only American presidency of the 21st century in which Putin did not expand Russia’s territory through conquest.
Russia invaded Ukraine last month amid a years long standoff over the disputed Donbass region. Russia claims it launched a “special military operation” to protect ethnic Russians from Ukrainian state violence, while Ukraine and much of the international community insist the invasion was unprovoked.
