President Biden suggested Wednesday that last year’s Capitol riot inspired Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine — making the head-turning claim after Republicans said Putin sensed weakness from Biden’s chaotic August withdrawal from Afghanistan.Biden abruptly invoked the storming of the US Capitol and claimed rioters killed five cops — only true if counting four subsequent suicides and one cop who died of a stroke — as he concluded his remarks on infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.“Vladimir Putin was counting on being able to split up the United States. Look, how would you feel if you saw crowds storm and break down the doors of the British Parliament and kill five cops, injure 145 — or the German Bundestag or the Italian Parliament?” Biden said.
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