White House: Not Advocating for Russian Regime Change

White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, on Feb. 25, 2022. Paul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The White House says it is not advocating to displace Vladimir Putin, in response to comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggesting the Russian president should be “taken out.”

Graham posted on Twitter Thursday that the only way the Russian conflict with Ukraine will end “is for somebody in Russia to take [Putin] out.”