President Joe Biden snapped at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Thursday after Doocy asked about Biden’s previous remarks from May that fully-vaccinated Americans no longer needed to wear masks.
“Mr. President, you said, if you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask,” Doocy said.
After initially denying that he had said that, Biden acknowledged that he did, in fact, state that, saying, “In May, that’s true.”
“That [was] true at the time because I thought there were people who were going to understand that getting vaccinated made a gigantic difference,” Biden said. “And what happened was, a new variant came along, they didn’t get vaccinated, it was spread more rapidly, and people, more people were getting sick. That’s the difference.”
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Doocy vs. Biden 🔥
Doocy: You said if you were fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.
Biden: I didn't say that.
Doocy: You did.(….)
Doocy: In May, you made it sound like the vaccine was the ticket to lose the mask forever.
Biden: That was true at the time. pic.twitter.com/0ITF0GZZqM— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 29, 2021
TRANSCRIPT:
PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS REPORTER: Mr. President, you said, if you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT: No, I didn’t say that.
DOOCY: You did–
BIDEN: I said if you’re fully vaccinated in an area where we do not have, but let me clarify–
DOOCY: In May, you made it sound like–
BIDEN: In May, that’s true.
DOOCY: –[inaudible] mask forever.
BIDEN: That [was] true at the time because I thought there were people who were going to understand that getting vaccinated made a gigantic difference. And what happened was, a new variant came along, they didn’t get vaccinated, it was spread more rapidly, and people, more people were getting sick. That’s the difference.