President Biden sported a curious smile as he told reporters during a U.S.-Russian prisoner swap Thursday night that they were “bound” to him and there was “no way out” of not using him as commander in chief.
“You’re going to be with me as your president for a while. There’s no way out, OK?” the 81-year-old president said. Said He walked towards the press with his arms slightly outstretched, his eyes wide and a sinister smile on his face.
He then stumbled over his words and accidentally misrepresented the time frame he had left to deal with him as commander in chief.
“You’re going to get me at least another 100 days, maybe 90,” Biden said.
The 81-year-old president announced he would not run for reelection after abruptly suspending his campaign earlier this month and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid.
Even if Biden is eliminated as a candidate, there are still 178 days until Inauguration Day, when he will officially leave office. As of Friday morning, there are 94 days until the 2024 presidential election is held.
Many medical experts who have studied Biden’s public comments over the past month believe he may be suffering from Parkinson’s disease or a related condition.
The president’s bizarre comments were made as a plane carrying Wall Street Journal reporters Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Ars Kurmasheva landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland just before midnight.
President Biden and Vice President Harris were the first to greet the three hostages as they arrived on U.S. soil after being released after being held in a Russian prison.
Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges since the Cold War, was arrested last year and accused of espionage on March 29, 2023, during a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg, a charge that the United States and The Wall Street Journal strongly deny as trumped up.
He spent about 16 months in prison before being exchanged.
Before his release in a secret deal, Gershkovich requested a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Whelan was arrested on suspicion of espionage in 2018 while visiting Russia for a friend’s wedding.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020.
Kurmaseva, a journalist with the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was accused of spreading false information about the Russian military and sentenced to six and a half years in prison in a secret trial.
The three were among 24 prisoners from the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Russia and Belarus who were released as part of the largest exchange since the Cold War.
