Wednesday’s White Home press briefing not solely featured two particular company to assist prop up the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre (Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and nationwide safety flack John Kirby), however there have been plenty of foolish questions on local weather change, Islamophobia, fawning over Kamala Harris, and reside response to former President being ambushed on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention.
Reuters’s Andrea Shalal obtained in a query to Vilsack and questioned whether or not he’d be capable to make sure the Biden administration’s far-left local weather change insurance policies could be cemented and irreversible if Trump wins in November:
Reuters’s Andrea Shalal hits Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack from the left about how the company will guarantee local weather change insurance policies stay in place if Donald Trump wins in November pic.twitter.com/oIbDIynhm7
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 31, 2024
Throughout Kirby’s flip, AFP’s Danny Kemp questioned if the regime would “be urging restraint from Israel” in gentle of Hezbollah murdering 12 harmless youngsters on a soccer discipline over the wekened.
Kirby hit again that he wouldn’t “discuss our diplomatic discussions with our Israeli counterparts”, however acknowledged Israel wanted to be allowed to have “what it must defend itself.”
Shalal got here again round with Jean-Pierre to inquire about an replace on a nationwide “Islamophobia technique” and categorical hope Harris might unveil it subsequent week in Michigan, residence to giant Arab populations:
Reuters’s Andrea’s Shalal: “So, subsequent week, Vice President Harris goes to Detroi. The UAW has simply endorsed her forward of a rally that’ll be going down in Detroit. The administration started work on an Islamophobia technique final yr. Do you’ve any sort of an replace for us on… pic.twitter.com/lkIy37sOC3
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 31, 2024
In the meantime, USA At the moment’s Joey Garrison had this insanely loaded softball inviting Jean-Pierre to share what Biden thinks of Harris’s “sturdy preliminary enthusiasm the Democratic voters are exhibiting” with improved polling, giant crowds, and oodles of cash:
Softball from USA At the moment’s Joey Garrison: “What’s President Biden’s response been to this point on the sturdy preliminary enthusiasm the Democratic voters are exhibiting for Kamala Harris’s candidacy. She had a rally in Atlanta final evening with over 10,000 folks, raised greater than 2 million —… pic.twitter.com/sGvolJxsiA
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 31, 2024
Exhibiting coordination within the liberal media’s world, NBC’s Peter Alexander selected to not follow-up on a query from a reporter on the CBS seat about why Biden and Harris have ducked the NABJ Convention, however as an alternative learn Trump’s feedback on Harris’s racial id as a softball to hit out of the park.
Discover how the digital camera zoomed in as Jean-Pierre spoke (click on “broaden”):
NBC’s @PeterAlexander: “If I can ask you about one thing that’s occurring on the NABJ proper now….[Donald Trump] says of Kamala Harris, the Vice President, ‘she was all the time of Indian heritage, and he or she was solely selling Indian heritage. I did not know she was black till a quantity… pic.twitter.com/bUjnifjZsU
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 31, 2024
ALEXANDER: If I can ask you about one thing that’s occurring on the NABJ proper now.
JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah.
ALEXANDER: Donald Trump is talking to a few of the reporters who have been assembled there and proper out of the gates, there was what can finest be described as a contentious alternate the place the previous President stated — I’m asking this by the lens of somebody who represents the President, Vice President, not somebody who has to talk as a marketing campaign query, he says of Kamala Harris, the Vice President, “she was all the time of Indian heritage, and he or she was solely selling Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black till plenty of years in the past when she occurred to show black,” he stated, and “now, she desires to be often called black, so I didn’t know is she Indian or is she black?”
JEAN-PIERRE: Wow.
ALEXANDER: “She has all the time a —” uh, that is unclear — “I respect both one, however she clearly doesn’t as a result of she was Indian all the way in which after which swiftly she made a flip and he or she went black.” Your response to these feedback?
JEAN-PIERRE: Haha! Uh, he’s a candidate, so I’m going to be tremendous cautious.
ALEXANDER: You’re — you’re talking [inaudible].
JEAN-PIERRE: Wait, no, no, no, maintain on, maintain on. I’ve extra to say. I definitely have extra to say. As an individual of colour, as a black lady, who’s on this place that’s standing earlier than you at this podium behind this lectern, what he simply stated, what you simply learn out to me is repulsive. It’s insulting and, you already know, nobody has any proper to inform somebody who they’re, how they determine. That’s nobody’s proper. It’s somebody’s personal selections. It’s — uh — I’ll add this. Solely she will converse to her expertise. Solely she will converse to what it’s like. She’s the one individual that may do this and I feel it’s insulting for anyone — it doesn’t matter if it’s a former chief, a former president — it — it’s insulting and we’ve to place — she is the Vice President of the US, Kamala Harris. We’ve to place some respect on her identify, interval.
ALEXANDER: Thanks.
Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich was additionally there and questioned the place on the earth is Joe Biden and, given his lack of public appearances, “[i]t lends itself to the looks that he’s accomplished governing.”
Jean-Pierre scoffed:
JACQUI TIME from earlier: “[C]ould you type of give us an thought of how a lot the President’s schedule has modified because the ticket modified? As a result of if you happen to take a look at what we take a look at, the massive occasion on Tuesday was a cellphone name. Huge occasion at present is a lunch. Tomorrow, we do not know what… pic.twitter.com/F9YaNzTWmB
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 31, 2024
Heinrich then introduced up what’s occurred within the Center East and why has Harris and Biden’s Secretaries of Protection and State weighed in publicly, however not him.
Given Thursday morning’s large, multi-national jail swap centered round Russia and the U.S., Jean-Pierre’s reply of “keep tuned” and guarantees that “you’re going to listen to from the President later this week” make extra sense.
CNN’s Kayla Tausche went past that and implied Biden being MIA means it’ll proceed given the heavy campaigning his Vice President will now must do:
CNN’s @KaylaTausche: “You stated that, with every occasion the president does, there is a dialogue about whether or not to open it as much as press and in what means. I am simply questioning if you happen to might elaborate slightly bit on the rationale behind not exhibiting the president on two days the place the Vice… pic.twitter.com/UvcG814ZtR
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 31, 2024
To see the related transcript from the July 31 briefing, click on right here.
