Candace Owens praises Putin for 'calling out evils of Biden & Dems' for jailing Capitol rioters for 'political opinions'

CANDACE Owens has praised Vladimir Putin for "calling out the evils" of the Democrat Party after the Russian leader accused the White House of jailing Capitol rioters for their "political opinions."

The conservative firebrand offered the praise in a tweet on Wednesday morning as President Joe Biden met face-to-face with Putin for a highly anticipated summit in Geneva, Switzerland.

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"Vladimir Putin calling out the evils of the Democrat government for locking up and torturing political dissidents, under the guise of a fake insurrection," Owens wrote.

"This is why Biden refused to hold a public press conference with
@KremlinRussia_E. Because the whole world knows the truth."

Attached to the tweet was a video from Putin's interview with NBC News, which aired on Monday, in which Putin accused the US of targeting its citizens "over their political opinions."

Putin's remarks came as he sought to deflect criticism from Biden over the poisoning and imprisonment of his political rival and Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny.

He then pointed to the hundreds of arrests made in the wake of the January 6 riots, and the death of one rioter, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead by police as she tried to break through a window near the chamber.

"Did you order the assassination of the woman [Babbitt] who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?" Putin said.

"Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering the Congress? And they didn't go there to steal a laptop. They came with political demands.

"Isn't that persecution for political opinions?" he asked.


Contrary to the Russian leader's claims, those arrested by the FBI after the insurrection have been charged a variety of criminal offenses, including trespassing and violent conduct, rather than for their political beliefs.

Still, Owens continued to contest that the insurrection was "fake" on Wednesday, though offered little clarity on her reasoning for that belief.

In a second tweet on Wednesday morning, Owens sought to lay bare what she claimed were "3 truths about Biden's America."

"1) We are compromised by China. This explains the many baseless conspiracies against India and Russia. 2) We persecute political dissidents. This explains the fake insurrection on January 6th. 3) We no longer hold the moral high ground."

Sharing Owen's praise of Putin's remarks was Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who during a broadcast on Tuesday night said the Russian leader had asked "fair questions" about the arrests of rioters.

"Now, under normal circumstances, we would never play a tape of a foreign adversary criticizing our government. But honestly, those are fair questions," Carlson began.

"Who did shoot Ashli Babbitt and why don't we know? Are anonymous federal agents now allowed to kill unarmed women who protest the regime? That's OK now? No, it's not OK."


Carlson also sensationally claimed that the US was becoming an authoritarian regime under Biden.

"We are living through the transformation of a formerly Democratic republic into something else," Carlson said. "We're looking at growing authoritarianism. It's not an overstatement."

Responding to Carlson's commentary on Wednesday, Owens concurred that what he had said was "common sense."

"This is common sense," she wrote. "The most obvious clue that the DOJ was behind January 6th were the pipe bombs that were dropped off the night before by an anonymous person who the FBI claims to still be searching for.

"Entirely implausible they do not know who dropped off bombs near the WH."

Owen's comments drew a broad spectrum of reactions, with many questioning her claims that the insurrection was staged.

"Candace using her platform to boost Putin and side with insurrectionists who tried to funk up American Democracy instead of helping people who look like her that are locked up and been locked up for far longer under worst conditions for petty offenses or nothing, period," one user wrote.

"Fake insurrection? So was it a fake death of the woman trying to climb through the window? Or the police officer who was beaten to death?" another asked.

A third added: "So why do Republicans oppose an investigation? Seems like something they would want to look into."

Others, however, appeared to believe Owens' conspiracy.

"Agreed. The most surveillance of any other place on Earth and they never found the person? Yeah okay," a user wrote.

"[Putin] has a point. It's the people's House not the politicians. Why shouldn't people be allowed to complain about their so called leaders," added a second.

Biden and Putin sat down for their first face-to-face meeting in Geneva on Tuesday morning.

The pair looked tense as they shook hands ahead of what is sure to be an uncomfortable few hours of talks.

Relations between the US and Russia are at their lowest point in decades, something both leaders have acknowledged publicly in recent weeks.

Much of the fraying of relations stems from a series of ransomware attacks carried out on US interests, including the Colonial Pipeline shutdown and the hacking of meatpacking plant JBS.

The US and Russia have also been at odds over what Biden calls "human rights violations" stemming from the arrest of Navalny.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of "disastrous cyber consequences" if Biden fails to push Putin to stop "ridiculing, undermining, and interfering" in US affairs.


"I'm sure that Joe Biden is looking at Vladimir Putin right now and saying: 'You know, Vlad, you know what we can do to you… You have to be prepared to face more serious consequences," Clinton said.

Fellow ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, meanwhile, warned that Putin "will smell weakness" on Biden and "drive a truck through it."

Pompeo also criticized Biden for declining to hold a joint press conference with Putin after the meeting.

"The fact that you are not prepared to stand six or eight feet from your adversary and tell the world what you talked about, the things you care about, and why you care about them, shows an enormous weakness," Pompeo told Fox News.

He went on: "They are watching this. When they smell weakness, when they can sniff it…they will drive a truck through it. 

"To see if you are not prepared to simply stand on a podium and respond to questions from the press that might be hard or tricky while your adversary is standing a few feet away from you, that is an enormous sign of weakness."

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