September 13 was another bad day for the White House, particularly for White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre, as she had to answer questions about the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Particularly, she was asked about whether there is any evidence of Biden family wrongdoing, a question for which she had no good response.
Kicking of the awkward but entertaining back and forth, the reporter asked, “Thanks, Karine. On impeachment, you just mentioned House Republicans’ “baseless claims.” How confident are you that there will be no evidence that incriminates President Biden in Hunter’s business dealings as this goes forward?”
KJP, in response, said that she “wanted to be clear” about the situation, but then did not give a clear response to the crystal clear question. Instead, she said, “So, let me just give a little bit of a — a laydown here, because I think it’s important: Any specifics to — to the inquiry — certainly, I — I want to say this at the top, as I said to Darlene — I’m going to refer you to my colleagues at the Counsel’s Office. But I want to — also want to be clear about a couple of things. You know, I just talked about Bidenomics. I just talked about what the President’s going to do tomorrow: really deliver a major speech — something that the American people want to hear about: what are we doing to improve their lives, work on the economy. And these are real — real issues, real priorities for Americans — and like I said, like lowering costs.”
Continuing, she claimed the GOP has turned up no evidence of misdeeds on Biden’s part, ignoring the allegations made about his family’s influence peddling and his being on phone calls, saying. “But what you see Republicans in Congress — right? — they have spent all year investigating the President. That’s what they’ve spent all year doing, and have turned up with no evidence — none — he — that he did anything wrong. I mean, that is what we’ve heard over and over again from their almost lear — year-long investigation. And — and that’s because the President didn’t do anything wrong. Even — even —”
As that point, a reporter jumped back in to interrupt KJP’s rambling with a question that put the issue and what many people think about the Biden situation very plainly, asking her, “Is lying to the public wrong?”
KJP had no good answer and so instead claimed the question was “inappropriate,” snapping, “even House — even House Republicans have said — have said the evidence does not exist. House Republicans have said that, to my friend in the back who just yelled out, which is incredibly inappropriate. But House Republicans have said that there doesn’t —”
Numerous news and politics videos with KJP have emerged over the last few years, showing times when she answers a question without an actual answer. Critics have pointed this out many times. This time, she was asked a combination of the two questions: “Do you dispute that he lied?” She had no good answer to that either, saying, “There doesn’t — it doesn’t exist. Their own investigation have actually debunked their ridiculous attacks. And the only reason Speaker McCarthy is doing this — is doing this political stunt — and we have seen it; you all have reported — is because Majorie — Majorie [Marjorie] Taylor Greene has said she threatened to shut down the government. Can you imagine shutting down the government over a political stunt? And we’re talking about vital programs that American families need. And — and she said that because she wanted him to — to actually do this. And if he didn’t, she would shut down the government.”
Continuing, she added, “And you have — Matt Gaetz as well threatened to oust him as Speaker if he didn’t do it. So, he didn’t even put up for a vote, as you all know, because he knows that even his own members weren’t going to support this. So, you know, that’s why we call it baseless. That’s why I just called it baseless, because they have said themselves that there is no evidence. There does not — the evidence does not exist, and this is a political stunt. But here’s the thing, and I say this all the time: We look forward to working with Republicans in a bipartisan way to actually deal with issues that matter to — to Americans — real issues that meri- — matter to Americans, not this baseless effort that they have continuing to do that shows no evidence.”
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