U.S President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed Russia's Vladimir Putin as a "murderous dictator" and a "pure thug" when speaking before an Irish St. Patrick's Day lunch on Capitol Hill."... Now you have Ireland and Great Britain and, you know, the Republic standing together against a murderous dictator, a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of Ukraine," Biden said at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon, TURAN's Washington correspondent ...