In happier times between all three countries, Vladimir Putin gave Biden a $12,000 lacquer writing box and pen when they met at a highly anticipated summit in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2021.
And, then-Afghan President Mohammed Ashraf Ghani and his wife gave the U.S. president and first lady Jill Biden silk rugs worth an estimated $28,800 later that month. Relations between the U.S. and Russia turned sour shortly after the Geneva meeting and have plummeted since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February. Ghani, meanwhile, fled Afghanistan shortly after the U.S. withdrew from the country on Biden’s orders in August, 2021.
Biden also in June received a brass and lapis lazuli jewelry box, worth an estimated $1,150 from Abdullah Abdullah, who was then considered to be the number 2 in the Afghan government. And Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was given a carpet valued at $2,650 in March from Ghani.The details were contained in the State Department’s annual accounting of gifts to U.S. officials from world leaders posted on the website of the Federal Register on Thursday.
Buried in deep in the article is the fact that these are treated as gifts to the US, not to Biden. This is true of all presidential gifts.
Good to know they could not bribe Biden ! Trump has his presents stashed at Mar A Lago
It’s custom to give gifts between leaders when they meet, no?
Absolutely abysmal AP. You're off my feed for good.
Insane headline. This is why people mistrust journalism.
This headline is so dishonest and misleading. The gifts were to the President not the person. So the gifts go to National Achives, not the person. TheLeadCNN cnnbrk nytimes nypost Can we get some reporting on this dishonest headline NewsHour BulwarkOnline lawfareblog
Deliberately misleading headline. Shame on you.
Hey liberals what's got say now about your Russian bought and paid-for President?
Why not lead with “all gifts transferred to National Archives” instead of an headline that might be construed as implying corruption on the Biden’s part? You can do better.
What pawn shop did Trump take his foreign leader gifts to? All those court cases must be expensive
Delete this BS.
This is what Democrats are up against media that's beholden to Billionaires. Writing deliberately misleading stories against the Democrats. But favorable stories about the party that works for Billionaires the GOP. If you understand this you'll understand the polls slightofhand.
It’s all political theatre in support of the military industrial complex
do better
That pretty much does it for me as far as AP is concerned. Their ledes are becoming so misleading and so purposive that it really can't be denied any longer. AP has a conservative political agenda.
LOL. Fucking clickbait. You know what Biden gave Putin? A bunch of fucking weapons and supplies to Ukraine's military. 🖕
This headline is so misleading. Heads of state often give gifts to the American President when meetings take place. Expensive gifts go straight to the archives.
Let’s talk Biden/Russia collusion, shall we?
Extremely, extremely misleading headline. This is abhorrent journalism.
This is very misleading. Do better.
Fire your headline writer, please; this is embarrassing for you.
Well we know Putin already OWNS realDonaldTrump
I thoughts I was gonna read something about billions of dollars worth of gifts I guess Jared and Ivanka are better liked than Biden
Now its time to stop reading AP. I can get opinions and D- writing from fox . Don't need this ploy
And?
Another attempt by the media to create an uproar by the right over a non issue. Classic.
This! 🖕Biden
10% for the big guy!
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