Biden touts being right about Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine at high-dollar LA fundraiser

President Joe Biden touted being right about Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s plans to invade Ukraine at a high-dollar fundraiser co-hosted by producer Jeffrey Katzenberg in Los Angeles Friday night. 

‘I know a lot of people thought I was exaggerating,’ the president told the group. ‘But I knew we had data to sustain. He was gonna go into the border. And there was no doubt and Zelensky didn’t want to hear it nor did a lot of people.’ 

In January, Zelensky said in the run-up to the invasion that warnings of an imminent invasion was ‘panic.’ 

‘I understand why they didn’t want to hear it, but he went in,’ Biden said of Putin. 

Biden was headlining two LA fundraisers Friday after spending three days at the Summit of the Americas. 

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President Joe Biden touted being right about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine at a high-dollar fundraiser co-hosted by producer Jeffrey Katzenberg in Los Angeles Friday night, after spending three days at the Summit of the Americas (pictured)

Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg (left) co-hosted a fundraiser headlined by President Joe Biden Friday night at the Brentwood home of Andrew Hauptman and Ellen Bronfman Hauptman (right) 

Biden’s first fundraiser was held in LA’s Brentwood neighborhood at the home of Andrew Hauptman and Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, and co-hosted by prominent film producer Katzenberg, according to Deadline. 

‘The money raised today will help get people to the polls on election day in November. Just the idea of Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell in charge should be enough to get people out to vote,’ Katzenberg told the publication. 

About 30 attendees were expected – with tickets going for between $50,000 and $100,000. The money will benefit the Democratic National Committe’s Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, which trickles down to state party committees. 

Biden’s second stop will be to the home of Haim and Cheryl Saban for an event that cost attendees at a minimum of $1,000 per ticket, Deadline said. ‘Sponsors’ can give or raise as much as $36,500. 

The president picked up his fundraising schedule in April, doing a west coast swing to Portland and Seattle and more recently raised money in Chicago.

At the events he’s had candid conversations with donors, while also reiterating points he’s made publicly. 

‘What he’s trying to do is obliterate there culture, not just not just take the nation, but the culture, the Ukrainian culture,’ Biden said in Brentwood – a point he’s made on prior occassions. ‘Because he doesn’t believe it’s such an independent thing as a Ukrainian culture. He think it came as a seed of mother Russia.’  

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Haim (left) and Cheryl Saban (right) are hosting President Joe Biden for his second Los Angeles fundraiser Friday night