Joseph Biden actually said...

"nothing on this scale happens in Russia without the knowledge and approval of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, particularly when it involves someone who was such a close ally of his through the y..."

"I don't know for fact what happened. I am not surprised. There's not much that happens in Russia that Putin is not behind. I don't know enough to know the answer."

"We will be respectful of the sacred grounds and the traditions that rebuild the way the people of Maui want to build, not the way others want to build."

"I have no comment on any investigation that's going on. That's up to the Justice Department, and that's all I have to say."