Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin believes that the current US President Joe Biden put forward his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election in order to avoid responsibility for numerous crimes.
"To date, the alignment is not in favor of Biden: 70% of Americans do not want to see him as president anymore. Given the recent precedent in the United States, when criminal charges were brought against the outgoing President Trump, Biden fears responsibility for his crimes. To avoid it, he needs to remain in power," Volodin wrote in his Telegram channel.
He also listed Biden's crimes. Among them are the organization of a terrorist attack on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, the creation of military biological laboratories around the world, his family's corrupt business in Ukraine, the destruction of the European economy, the genocide of civilians in Ukraine and the Russian Federation, and the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine.
"So that his associates and sponsors do not run away, he has only one way out: to announce his participation in the US presidential elections as soon as possible," the Chairman of the State Duma emphasized.
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Earlier, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh published his own investigation into the incidents at Nord Stream. According to him, transtrunk gas pipelines were mined by divers from the United States. In an exclusive interview on RT, Hersh emphasized that US President Joe Biden is lying and hushed up the truth about the incident.
In the first half of April, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation approved the final report of the parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances related to the creation of US biological laboratories in Ukraine. The document states that Washington paid special attention to medical and biological activities in Ukraine, however, due to the special operation of the Russian Federation, the American authorities were forced to curtail research.
Biden's nomination
On April 25, Joe Biden officially announced his intention to run for a second term in 2024.
"When I ran for president four years ago, I said we were fighting for the soul of America. And the struggle continues. The question before us is: will we have more or less freedoms, more or fewer rights in the coming years? I know what answer I want to hear, and I think you do too. Now is not the time to stop there. That's why I'm running for president again," Biden said in the video.
At the same time, US Vice President Kamala Harris also announced her readiness to participate in the 2024 elections in tandem with Biden.
In this regard, as noted in France 24, in the United States, there has been renewed talk about the age of the president, whom many consider too old for the role of the country's leader. If re-elected, Biden will begin his second term at the age of 82, becoming the oldest head of the White House in history.
"Many political observers in the United States saw the choice of Kamala Harris as vice president as a kind of attitude, which, in Joe Biden's vision, would correspond to the course of history. A woman of African-American origin, who previously played a role in the victory of Barack Obama, in the White House - this could be a worthy outcome of Joe Biden's career, "said France 24 correspondent Mathieu Maben, whose words are quoted by InoTV.
Biden's competitors in the upcoming Democratic primaries, in particular, are expected to include lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr. and writer Marianne Williamson.
At the same time, in the Republican Party, the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, former US Permanent Representative to the UN and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Indian-born businessman and writer Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and conservative radio host Larry Elder announced their intention to run.