Retired Rear Admiral <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oh-please-brian-kilmeade-cant-hold-back-when-john-kirby-tries-to-spin-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-great-success/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kirby</a> attempted to defend President Joe Biden on Wednesday amid the ongoing classified documents scandal — but when he answered a question from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, he left out one very important detail.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oh-my-goodness-peter-doocy-catches-karine-jean-pierre-off-guard-with-classified-docs-question/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doocy</a> asked what the proper procedure was for someone who had removed classified material — whether accidentally or intentionally — from a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ludicrous-john-kirby-laughs-off-suggestion-that-the-country-behind-9-11-might-have-infected-biden-on-purpose/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirby</a> said that the correct action would be for that individual to &#8220;self-report&#8221; — and then claimed that Biden had done just that, omitting the fact that it had taken the president years to do so.
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DOOCY: &quot;What happens to someone in the chain of command if they do leave [a SCIF] with a piece of classified material&#8230;?&quot;
KIRBY: &quot;You self report, which is exactly what the president did.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/apx8NKBcaJ">pic.twitter.com/apx8NKBcaJ</a>
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&#8220;Usually what happens to someone in the chain of command if they do leave [a SCIF] with a piece of classified material that they&#8217;re not supposed to have or that is not secure?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;I think &#8230; ah &#8230; if you do it inadvertently or you do it and you realize you don&#8217;t have it secured in a locked bag, you know, you self-report,&#8221; Kirby replied, adding, &#8220;Which is exactly what the president did, self-report. But you self-report and you make sure that you get the material back secured where it belongs and that you&#8217;re transparent about it.&#8221;
Not everyone was buying Kirby&#8217;s explanation, however, and a number pointed out the fact that even if Biden had &#8220;self-reported,&#8221; he hadn&#8217;t done so until years after he took possession of the classified materials.
&#8220;The WH did *not* self-report. Biden&#8217;s lawyers called the White House, which informed National Archives. DoJ only learned of this evident crime because NARA&#8217;s inspector general learned of it and called DoJ. Team Silver Alert was hoping NARA would bury this,&#8221; Phineas Fahrquar <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1618359093013667840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just guessing that a lower-level government employee who took classified information, kept it in his garage, and then &#8216;self-reported&#8217; several years later wouldn&#8217;t get off with zero punishment,&#8221; Doug Powers added.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley pointed out that Kirby — who is currently serving as the Coordinator for Strategic Communications for the National Security Council — was clearly allowed to answer questions that Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had referred to the White House Counsel&#8217;s office.
&#8220;Riddle me this: why can the Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby answer basic questions about classification rules but not the White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre?&#8221; Turley asked.
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Riddle me this: why can the Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby answer basic questions about classification rules but not the White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre?
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&#8230;The position of the White House has become entirely untethered from any legal or logical justification. What remains is a calculated use of the investigation to stonewall the public and the press.
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1618343289291407362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Noting that Jean-Pierre had refused to answer even questions that only pertained to the rules regarding classified documents, he added, &#8220;The position of the White House has become entirely untethered from any legal or logical justification. What remains is a calculated use of the investigation to stonewall the public and the press.&#8221;

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John Kirby Tries To Defend Biden On Classified Docs – Leaves Out One Very Important Detail

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Fox News White House Correspondent <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/karine-jean-pierre-shut-out-foxs-peter-doocy-heres-what-he-would-have-asked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Doocy</a> got a surprised laugh out of Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during Monday&#8217;s briefing, catching her off-guard with an outside-the-box question.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/who-exactly-thinks-the-president-is-doing-a-good-job-on-inflation-peter-doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doocy</a>, like many others in the White House Press Corps, asked about President Joe Biden and the classified documents that just keep appearing in different locations — but he took a very different approach.
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DOOCY TO KJP: “When you found out that the FBI located even more Classified Materials in Wilmington, which four letter word did you use?” <a href="https://t.co/pLI7cH1DP7">pic.twitter.com/pLI7cH1DP7</a>
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&#8220;When you found out that the FBI located even more classified materials in Wilmington, which four-letter word did you use?&#8221; Doocy asked.
Jean-Pierre, laughing along with several others in the room, replied, &#8220;Oh, my goodness, Peter.&#8221;
&#8220;You can&#8217;t say?&#8221; Doocy asked. &#8220;Okay.&#8221;
A number of reporters — including Doocy — have repeatedly pressed Jean-Pierre on the documents: what they pertain to; whether or not there might be more in other locations; whether or not Biden was aware they were in his possession.
But Doocy&#8217;s question on Monday appeared to be a jab at the Biden administration&#8217;s earlier claim that all classified materials had been found and turned over to the proper authorities — a claim that was proven false a day later when more documents were found in Biden&#8217;s Wilmington, Delaware, home.
Jean-Pierre repeated the White House counsel&#8217;s claim to reporters the Friday before the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday — and on Tuesday, after more documents were found on Saturday, she had to field questions from reporters who pointed out that she had shared <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/are-you-sorry-reporters-bombard-karine-jean-pierre-over-false-statement-on-classified-docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">false information</a>.
&#8220;Do you feel badly that you gave out false information?&#8221; Newsmax Chief White House Correspondent James Rosen asked during the briefing, but he got no answer.
NPR&#8217;s Tamara Keith took a similar tack, asking, &#8220;Are you upset that you came out to this podium on Friday with incomplete and inaccurate information? And are you concerned that it affects your credibility up here?&#8221;
Rosen tried again as the briefing came to a close, saying, &#8220;You told us something six times that turned out to be false. Are you sorry about that?&#8221;

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‘Oh, My Goodness’: Peter Doocy Catches Karine Jean-Pierre Off-Guard With Classified Docs Question

Peter Doocy Catches Karine Jean-Pierre Off-Guard With Classified Docs Question

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Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not shed much light on the still-unfolding situation regarding the classified documents found in President Joe Biden&#8217;s possession — and while she stone-walled reporters on the subject during Friday&#8217;s briefing, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy later revealed what he would have asked.
Doocy spoke with &#8220;America Reports&#8221; anchor John Roberts during Friday&#8217;s broadcast, and Roberts casually brought up the fact that Jean-Pierre had &#8220;passed [him] over&#8221; and hadn&#8217;t given any straight answers regarding the classified documents.
&#8220;She passed you over today,&#8221; Roberts remarked.
&#8220;Ah — I don&#8217;t know why,&#8221; Doocy shrugged, smiling, but then he went on to reveal to Roberts the question he had been planning to ask — especially in light of the news that Biden planned to leave Washington, D.C., and spend the weekend at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
&#8220;If I would’ve had an opportunity to ask a question, the first one I have on my sheet was: Why is President Biden going to Wilmington today, isn’t that a potential crime scene?&#8221; Doocy asked.
Doocy went on to say that the White House was not offering much in the way of new information, adding that the only clear statements coming from the administration on the classified documents issue — which he said had reached the level of &#8220;scandal&#8221; — were that they &#8220;take it seriously&#8221; and they &#8220;are going to cooperate.&#8221;
The Fox News correspondent did get a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-responds-to-classified-docs-found-at-his-home-were-in-a-locked-garage-as-well-as-my-corvette/">direct response</a> from Biden on Thursday, just after news broke that classified documents had been discovered in his garage.
&#8220;Classified material next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;Let me, I’m going to get a chance to speak on all this, God willing soon, but as I said earlier this week, people and, by the way my Corvette’s in a locked garage, OK? So it’s not like they’re sitting out in the street,&#8221; Biden replied.
Fox News Radio&#8217;s Guy Benson noted later that Biden appeared to have been reading his responses from a cue card but went off-book when Doocy mentioned the Corvette. Noting that a &#8220;locked garage&#8221; was hardly the standard for classified material, Benson argued that Doocy&#8217;s question may have forced Biden into an admission he had not planned to make.
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Our colleague <a href="https://twitter.com/pdoocy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pdoocy</a> cleverly planted a seed &amp; induced a newsworthy answer — and an error — by the president today: <a href="https://t.co/E7UTJI71fr">pic.twitter.com/E7UTJI71fr</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1613732172581732352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Karine Jean-Pierre Shut Out Fox’s Peter Doocy: Here’s What He Would Have Asked

Karine Jean-Pierre Shut Out Fox's Peter Doocy: Here's His Question On Biden's Weekend Plans

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> is the kind of guy you could imagine yelling at a bunch of rambunctious kids with a shake of his gnarled fist, &#8220;Get off my lawn!&#8221;
The president, who turns 80 this month, likes to play the avuncular sage offering astute aphorisms, but deep down, hidden behind that smiling and soothing facade, is a furious man with little patience for &#8230; anything.
Biden&#8217;s anger management issues have popped up from time to time over the years (he&#8217;s been sucking off the government teat since 1973, after all), but they&#8217;ve been flaring up far more often of late, so much so that the hyper-liberal &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; mocked the president over the weekend.
The goof, which came on &#8220;Weekend Update,&#8221; began with a shot of Biden and host Colin Jost noting that Biden had just given a speech in Detroit. &#8220;Let me start off with two words,&#8221; Biden opened his speech, &#8220;made in America.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden was then heard criticizing reporters at the White House for shouting questions at him, questions like, &#8216;What year it?&#8217; and &#8216;Who&#8217;s the current president?&#8217; Also, they weren&#8217;t reporters, they were doctors,&#8221; Jost said to much laughter.
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When SNL is mocking a Democratic president, you know something has gone wrong in the matrix. But that&#8217;s just how bad Biden is at &#8230; everything.
Ramblin&#8217; Joe was up in New York on Sunday in an 11th-hour attempt to save Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul&#8217;s job as governor. His speech was interrupted by climate protesters, which enraged Biden.
&#8220;No more drilling,&#8221; Biden snapped at a climate heckler. &#8220;There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new drilling,&#8221; Biden said.
He then got befuddled when he tried to return to his speech and nearly stumbled off the stage at one point. &#8220;&#8216;Oops, stepping on a – hmm – it&#8217;s black. Anyway,&#8221; Biden said after he teetered.
As Democrats have plunged in the midterm election polls &#8212; nearly every pollster predicts a &#8220;red tsunami&#8221; on Tuesday, with many saying Republicans take the House in a landslide and likely win back the Senate, too &#8212; Biden has grown increasingly cantankerous.
Biden, who has been hunkering down in his Delaware basement during the campaign season, was asked late last month why he has hit the trail for so few candidates.
&#8220;John Fetterman&#8217;s going to appear with you today in Pennsylvania, but there haven&#8217;t been that many candidates campaigning with you —&#8221; CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang began on October 20.
Biden angrily cut her off, leaning forward into the bank of microphones and yelling, &#8220;That&#8217;s not true!&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;ve been 15,&#8221; he insisted. &#8220;Count kid, count!&#8221;
That&#8217;s what Biden said, even though the White House later altered the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/10/20/remarks-by-president-biden-before-marine-one-departure-22/">transcript</a> to say something different and less angry.
Another reporter got in a question, saying: &#8220;Mr. President, should there be any restr — should there be restrictions on abortion at all? Any restrictions on abortion at all?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes. Yes, there should be,&#8221; Biden said.
&#8220;What should they be?&#8221;
&#8220;In Roe v. Wade. Read it, man. You’ll get educated,&#8221; Biden spat.
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For the record, I covered the White House for a dozen years, and, as the Fourth Estate, that&#8217;s our job &#8212; we ask the president questions. What&#8217;s more, Biden has done far fewer press conferences than his predecessors, so reporters have been consigned to yelling questions over the prop wash of the Marine One helicopters.
But Biden also mocked the media at a White House meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog (the president allowed the press inside before their talk &#8212; an old trick by presidents who don&#8217;t want to discuss the discussion and can just clear out reporters after making a statement).
&#8220;Thank you very much, press, we need you guys to move, thank you very much,&#8221; White House wranglers said as they herded out reporters, who steadfastly shouted questions.
&#8220;Among the only press in the world that does this. Seriously, seriously,&#8221; Biden said derisively to Herzog.
Damn right we are. That&#8217;s literally the first thing the Founders added to the Bill of Rights after they forgot to enshrine freedom of the press in the Constitution (ooh, colonial burn. Yup, no one is safe).
Biden derided former President Donald Trump&#8217;s adversarial relationship with the media, but he often does exactly the same thing &#8212; although often under his breath.
Biden responded: &#8220;It&#8217;s totally irrelevant, but I&#8217;ll answer. OK. If I verified he complimented me. He thanked me for the immediate response we had.&#8221;
In July, a reporter asked about reports citing economists saying a recession is &#8220;more likely than ever.&#8221;
&#8220;Not the majority of them aren&#8217;t saying that. Come on, don&#8217;t make things up,&#8221; said Biden, who makes up things all the time.
And in January, Biden was caught mumbling about Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy, calling him a &#8220;stupid son of a b****&#8221; for asking if inflation would be a serious &#8220;political liability&#8221; for Democrats in the midterms (the honest answer: Yes, bigtime).
A week later, Biden ripped Fox&#8217;s Jacqui Heinrich for asking a &#8220;stupid question&#8221; about why the U.S. was taking no action and was instead waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the &#8220;first move&#8221; on Ukraine.
That&#8217;s the real Biden. He&#8217;s not the soft-spoken grandfather he pretends to be. He&#8217;s angry if anyone questions him about anything, and he lashes out &#8212; no doubt most often back in the Oval Office with loyal supporters nodding their heads in unison.
And that explains why Biden&#8217;s closing message for the 2022 midterms is filled with anger and hate for the 74 million Americans who voted for his predecessor. He&#8217;s about to learn it&#8217;s not a winning formula.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Biden’s Avuncular Façade Barely Hides His Anger At The Media — And The 74 Million Americans Who Voted For The Other Guy

President Joe Biden's Avuncular Façade Barely Hides His Anger At The Media -- And 74 Million MAGA Americans

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Fox News White House correspondent <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-doocy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Doocy</a> sparred with Press Secretary <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> during Wednesday&#8217;s daily briefing, asking her why President Joe Biden thought gas companies would do anything to help him if his administration wanted to put them out of business.
Doocy put the question to Jean-Pierre in the wake of the president&#8217;s announcement that he planned to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-to-release-more-oil-from-strategic-reserve-ahead-of-midterms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pull additional oil</a> from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in order to sell it, then buy it back once the price of oil falls to around $70 a barrel.
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Doocy: &quot;Well, they produce fossil fuels &amp; this President says he wants to end fossil fuel.&quot;
KJP: &quot;So&#8230;Oil production is up and on track to reach a record high&#8230;We&#39;ve seen that&#8230;from their&#8230;profit margins. They are&#8211;they&#8211;you know, they&#8211;it&#39;s record high.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/EEF4Og3VwZ">pic.twitter.com/EEF4Og3VwZ</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1582815708949336064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Doocy began by noting that Biden had once again blamed gas companies for raking in record profits while failing to lower their prices to consumers, and asked why an administration that had repeatedly demonized and hamstrung the oil industry believed the gas companies would do anything to help them.
&#8220;So, you&#8217;re asking oil companies to further lower gas prices. What makes you think they are going to listen to an administration that is ultimately trying to put them out of business?&#8221;
&#8220;How? How is the administration trying to put them out of business?&#8221; Jean-Pierre asked.
&#8220;Well, they produce fossil fuels and this president says he wants to end fossil fuel,&#8221; Doocy replied.
&#8220;So look, you kind of asked me this question yesterday,&#8221; Jean-Pierre pushed back. &#8220;Here&#8217;s what we would say: U.S. oil production is up and on track to reach a record high next year. We&#8217;ve seen that from their &#8230; when we see their profit margins. They are — they — you know, they — it&#8217;s record high.&#8221;
Jean-Pierre&#8217;s comments came on the heels of Biden&#8217;s announcement explaining the administration&#8217;s energy strategy, after which he claimed to &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-to-debunk-myths-about-oil-production-house-judiciary-gop-offers-one-word-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debunk</a>&#8221; a myth about domestic oil production.
&#8220;Let’s debunk some myths here. My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production. Quite the opposite. We’re producing 12 million barrels of oil per day and by the end of this year, we will be producing one million barrels a day more than the day which I took office,&#8221; Biden said.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1582792404234432512" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the president&#8217;s claim with just one word: &#8220;Liar.&#8221;
The official Twitter account for <a href="https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1582816942804520961" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rasmussen Reports</a> took a different tack, sharing a screenshot of a CNBC headline that was published just a week after President Biden was inaugurated. &#8220;Biden suspense oil and gas leasing in slew of executive actions on climate change,&#8221; the headline read.

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Doocy Spars With Press Sec: Why Would Gas Companies Help An Admin That Means To ‘Put Them Out Of Business’

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White House Press Secretary <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> appeared to have trouble answering direct questions about the recent inflation numbers and what President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> administration was doing to provide relief for the American people.
Fox News White House correspondent <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-doocy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Doocy</a> hit Jean-Pierre with a series of questions during Monday&#8217;s briefing, beginning by asking why — if Biden truly believed that combatting inflation was his primary domestic goal — Americans weren&#8217;t seeing any real progress.
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DOOCY TIME: &quot;[I]f [Biden&#39;s] top domestic priority is inflation, why doesn&#39;t he have more to show for it?&quot;
KJP: &quot;So, [he] understands&#8230;inflation is an issue&#8230;Cost is an issue for the American people, and so he&#39;s been very clear about making that his #1 economic priority&quot; <a href="https://t.co/jmJXsfAjMQ">pic.twitter.com/jmJXsfAjMQ</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1582069068911083521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Following up on something you said earlier, if President Biden&#8217;s top domestic priority is inflation, why doesn&#8217;t he have more to show for it?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;So, the president understands, and we&#8217;ve talked about this many times, that inflation is an issue &#8230; high cost &#8230; cost is an issue for the American people, and so he&#8217;s been very clear about making that his number one economic priority. And he has done the work,&#8221; Jean-Pierre insisted.
The press secretary went on to tout the Inflation Reduction Act, claiming that it was &#8220;going to lower costs&#8221; for seniors across the country by capping Medicare prescription costs and throwing in a dig at Republicans who had not voted for the measure. She then focused on Republicans, claiming that they would move to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act if they could and arguing that would only &#8220;make things worse.&#8221;
Doocy pushed back, asking, &#8220;But who exactly thinks the president is doing a good job on inflation? Because we&#8217;ve got a poll that finds he receives his lowest job ratings on inflation, net negative 38 points.&#8221;
&#8220;We understand that there are challenges that are in front of us here in this country, that is why the president has taken action to lower costs,&#8221; Jean-Pierre argued, mentioning gas prices as an example despite the fact that gas prices have been on the rise again in recent days.
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Doocy: &quot;Have [Biden&#39;s] economic advisors told him the general consensus now is that the American Rescue Plan has contributed to inflation?&quot;
KJP: &quot;Look, Sec. Yellen, who is incredibly well respected&#8230;has spoken to this&#8230;[His policies] are popular w/the American people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LXLEaymw0Q">pic.twitter.com/LXLEaymw0Q</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1582070063523278848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Have the president&#8217;s economic advisors told him the general consensus now is that the American Rescue Plan has contributed to inflation?&#8221; Doocy pressed once more.
Jean-Pierre argued that Biden&#8217;s policies were popular with the American people and deflected on the economic question, adding, &#8220;Look, Sec. Yellen, who is incredibly well respected as you know in the economic space, has spoken to this so I will leave her words speak to that, to the statement that you just made.&#8221;

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Peter Doocy Corners Karine Jean-Pierre On Inflation

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Joe Rogan torched White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over what he called a &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; answer to Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy about her 2016 stolen election claim.
During Spotify&#8217;s &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iVChLxDKPFN9X8q4NtCsd?si=3eghO9CMSRK-GVT2rlAssQ">podcast</a> on Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">host</a> was speaking with stand-up comedians Tony Hinchcliffe and Hans Kim about the press secretary&#8217;s &#8220;hilarious&#8221; answer to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-doocy">Doocy</a> about a tweet she made in 2016 claiming that former President Donald Trump had stolen the election.
&#8220;Did you ever see her confronted on it?&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-slams-blood-red-dark-background-of-bidens-speech">Rogan</a> asked his guests. &#8220;You gotta see this. It&#8217;s hilarious. Cause that guy Peter Doocy from Fox News, who always asks the best questions. Like, if you want that show to be entertaining, you want that guy to ask questions, because he always catches them.&#8221;
&#8220;And so he brings up a tweet of hers from 2016, where she says the election is stolen while she&#8217;s talking about how important it is not entertaining any ideas of the 2020 election being stolen,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Like, what are you talking about? What?&#8221;
&#8220;First of all, what kind of audit have you done where you&#8217;re so confident that the election has been stolen or has not been stolen,&#8221; the podcast host continued. &#8220;How much work are you doing before you&#8217;re making these assertions? Almost zero.&#8221;
Rogan then read Jean-Pierre&#8217;s 2016 tweet that read, &#8220;Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election &#8230;..welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump.&#8221;
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Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election &#8230;..welcome to the world of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/unpresidented?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#unpresidented</a> Trump <a href="https://t.co/NI7vqPV6cu">https://t.co/NI7vqPV6cu</a>
&mdash; Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) <a href="https://twitter.com/K_JeanPierre/status/810294911815847936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-at-their-job-joe-rogan-says-after-stelter-canned-theyre-all-on-the-chopping-block">Rogan</a> then played video of the Fox News White House correspondent asking the press secretary, &#8220;if denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#8217;t it then?&#8221; It was a reference to recent comments from President Joe Biden that &#8220;extremists&#8221; in the MAGA wing of the Republican Party were the ones who denied results of the 2020 presidential election.
Jean-Pierre called the comparison he made &#8220;just ridiculous.&#8221;
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Doocy: &quot;You tweeted in 2016&#8230;Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#39;t it then?&quot;
KJP: &quot;So, let&#39;s be really clear. That comparison that you made is just ridiculous.&quot;
Doocy: &quot;How is that ridiculous?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/JDTO1HMO8W">pic.twitter.com/JDTO1HMO8W</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1567197380662935556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The podcaster said her &#8220;saying that question is ridiculous is ridiculous.&#8221;
&#8220;That is not a ridiculous question,&#8221; Rogan told his guests. &#8220;That is a very good question. It&#8217;s a very good questions.&#8221;
At one point, he also blasted those who have claimed that asking voters to show &#8220;ID is racist,&#8221; but doing the same when it comes the pandemic is necessary.
In a character voice he said, &#8220;you don&#8217;t need to show ID to vote. But you better have your ID ready and your vax card if you want to eat in a restaurant.&#8221;
&#8220;Same people,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Same people. ID is racist, but you need an ID, cause you have to do the right thing. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re bearing the weight of this hypocrisy all day long is just blowing their brains out.&#8221;
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Fox News White House correspondent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-doocy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Doocy</a> cornered Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> during Tuesday&#8217;s briefing, asking why her previous tweets denying the results of elections did not constitute “extremism” as defined by President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>.
Doocy referred to Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-election-denier-claims-denying-elections-is-one-of-the-hallmarks-of-fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent comments</a> — arguing that “extremists” within the MAGA wing of the Republican Party were the ones who denied that he won the 2020 presidential election — and he pointed out Jean-Pierre&#8217;s own <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/a-threat-to-democracy-bidens-new-election-denying-press-secretary-meets-the-lefts-definition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prior claims</a> that former President Donald Trump had “stolen” the 2016 election from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and that Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp had “stolen” the election from Democrat Stacey Abrams.
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Doocy: &quot;You tweeted in 2016&#8230;Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#39;t it then?&quot;
KJP: &quot;So, let&#39;s be really clear. That comparison that you made is just ridiculous.&quot;
Doocy: &quot;How is that ridiculous?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/JDTO1HMO8W">pic.twitter.com/JDTO1HMO8W</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1567197380662935556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“A follow up about the MAGA Republican attention. So, if we&#8217;re all in agreement that it is incorrect to say the 2020 election was stolen, what about the 2016 election?” Doocy began.
Jean-Pierre deflected at first, saying that she was not going to “go back to where we were” and that the Biden administration was choosing instead to remain focused on what was going on in the moment.
“But just in trying to understand the new attention on the MAGA Republicans, you tweeted in 2016 —” Doocy pushed back, prompting an interruption from Jean-Pierre.
“Oh, I knew this was coming,” she said. “I was waiting, Peter, when you were going to ask me that question.”
“Here we go,” Doocy responded with a smile. “You tweeted Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#8217;t it then?”
“So, let&#8217;s be really clear. That comparison that you made is just ridiculous,” Jean-Pierre insisted.
“How is that ridiculous?” Doocy shot back.
“I have been — you&#8217;re asking me a question, let me — let me answer it.”
“And you said it was ‘ridiculous,’” Doocy continued.
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KJP defends questioning the 2016 &amp; 2018 elections, telling Doocy she didn&#39;t storm the Capitol like on January 6 where &quot;people died&#8230;Law enforcement were attacked&#8230;That&#39;s what [Biden] has called out&#8230;When you have MAGA Republicans&#8230;who&#8230;deny&#8230;[he&#39;s] going to call that out.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/U90mqNCXbS">pic.twitter.com/U90mqNCXbS</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1567198604644810752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“I was talking specifically at the time of what was happening with voting rights, and what was in danger of voting rights,” Jean-Pierre insisted, apparently referencing the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-pushed-misinformation-about-georgia-voting-bill-now-shes-upset-by-the-consequences/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity measures</a> passed in Georgia. Despite the measures getting heavy criticism from the Left, Georgia has had <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/georgia-voting-law-media-jim-crow-accusations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher turnout</a> in the elections since their passage.
Jean-Pierre went on to say that in the months since, she had clearly stated that Trump won in 2016 and that Kemp had also won his election in Georgia — and then she pivoted to invoke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a>, arguing that the MAGA Republicans were being called out because of that.

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Peter Doocy And Karine Jean-Pierre Do Battle Over When Election Denial Is ‘Extreme’

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Podcast king <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-at-their-job-joe-rogan-says-after-stelter-canned-theyre-all-on-the-chopping-block" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan</a> blasted ex-Biden administration spokeswoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jen-psaki" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jen Psaki</a> as a liar and said former Trump press secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kayleigh-mcenany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kayleigh McEnany</a> was the &#8220;Michael Jordan&#8221; of the profession.
Rogan’s comments came on Saturday while he discussed COVID vaccines with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-blasts-medias-vaccine-witch-hunt-in-chat-with-joe-rogan-reveals-immunized-strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL superstar Aaron Rodgers</a>, who famously declined to get the jab. Rogan accused Psaki of pushing vaccines that many Americans questioned.
“When Jen Psaki said these vaccines are approved by the FDA, which is the gold standard, that was a lie,” Rogan said, noting that the vaccines were initially administered under an “emergency use authorization.&#8221;
“They weren’t approved. But she was a propagandist.”
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Rogan called the White House press secretary position a “weird job” because it requires toeing the administration line even when it may not be accurate or true. But he singled out McEnany, a Harvard-trained lawyer who held the post for Trump’s last year and frequently sparred with a hostile press, as an exception.
“That lady was a f***ing assassin,” Rogan raved. “That lady had like binders, with footnotes. And anyone would say something and she’d be like, ‘That’s interesting, because actually CNN said this.’ And she would like quote it back to them and stuff it in their face.&#8221;
“That lady was the best ever at that job,” Rogan added. “She’s the f***ing Michael Jordan of White House press secretaries.”
The comments echoed prior remarks by left-wing CNN personality Van Jones, who warned liberals in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-coronavirus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 interview</a> not to dismiss McEnany’s sharp intellect.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to defend the messaging, but what I hope people can acknowledge is there&#8217;s very few people in either party who can accomplish what Kayleigh has accomplished in such a short time,” Jones said. “People keep taking her lightly, and they keep regretting it.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_429988" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429988" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-429988 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-864x576.jpg" alt="Joe Rogan called former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany the 'Michael Jordan' of the profession for her ability to spar with the liberal media." width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Joe Rogan called former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany the &#8216;Michael Jordan&#8217; of the profession for her ability to spar with the liberal media. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)</div>
McEnany is now a co-host on the Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered” show.
While talking to Rodgers, Rogan had praise for another Fox News employee, Peter Doocy. The reporter has long stood out among the Biden-friendly White House press corps for asking tough questions. Rogan praised him for pressing Psaki, who has since left for an MSNBC gig, on the vaccines.
“The hard questions were all by Peter Doocy from Fox News,” Rogan said. “He’s the only guy [who was] pushing back against her. And she just f***ing flat out lied and not just one occasion, multiple occasions.”

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Education Secretary <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/miguel-cardona/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miguel Cardona</a> conceded on Wednesday that borrowers who had repaid their student loans would get no benefit from President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> planned cancellation of up to $10,000 in student debt for many borrowers.
Cardona spoke briefly with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who asked him to weigh in on those who had worked to repay their debts — and Cardona admitted that the mass cancellation would provide nothing for them.
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Doocy: &quot;The people that already paid their student loans, they don&#39;t get anything out of this deal.&quot;
Ed Sec Cardona: &quot;Right.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/w6YQotUaAK">pic.twitter.com/w6YQotUaAK</a>
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&#8220;Just the final one on this: The people that already paid their student loans, they don&#8217;t get anything out of this deal,&#8221; Doocy prompted.
&#8220;Right,&#8221; Cardona agreed.
&#8220;That&#8217;s right, okay,&#8221; Doocy confirmed.
Critics of the plan have argued that taxpayers will get something out of the mass cancellation of student debt — <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bidens-student-loan-cancellation-would-cost-330-billion-and-largely-help-the-wealthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">namely the bill</a>. Because the federal government creates budgets that depend on predicted income — student loan payments included – the cancellation of a large chunk of that debt in one fell swoop would result in a lesser amount coming in. The government would then have to compensate for that shortfall by reducing spending or increasing taxes — and the latter happens with more regularity than the former.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a longtime proponent of student debt cancellation, had a similar reaction when she was asked whether people who had paid off their own student loans might qualify for some kind of reimbursement.
&#8220;My daughter is in school,&#8221; a man <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479608-warren-confronted-by-man-at-campaign-event-over-tuition-reimbursement/">asked</a> Warren at a 2020 campaign event. &#8220;I saved all my money just to pay my student loans. Can I have my money back?&#8221;
&#8220;Of course not,&#8221; Warren replied.
&#8220;So you want to help those who don’t save any money and the ones that do the right thing get screwed?&#8221; he asked.
Doocy also asked Cardona about comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — who said weeks earlier that President Joe Biden did not have the authority to unilaterally cancel student debt — and Cardona argued that a post-9/11 law allowed him to do so under certain conditions.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/pdoocy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PDoocy</a>: &quot;Speaker Pelosi said last year, she thought this was something a president could not do. It would require an act of Congress. So is this legal?&quot; 
&quot;The HERO&#39;s Act, page 637&#8230;gives me the authority to provide a waiver to ensure Americans are not worse off&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hWF2hL3HhK">pic.twitter.com/hWF2hL3HhK</a>
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&#8220;Speaker Pelosi said last year, she thought this was something a president could not do. It would require an act of Congress. So is this legal?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;The HEROES Act, page 637 &#8230; gives me the authority to provide a waiver to ensure Americans are not worse off after an emergency — a national emergency — which the pandemic was.&#8221;

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Education Secretary Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: People Who Paid Their Student Debt Get Nothing

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Admits That People Who Paid Their Student Debt Get Nothing

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared to struggle with her response when Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy asked about President Joe Biden&#8217;s insistence on forcing Americans to make the transition from fossil fuels to green energy.
Doocy pressed <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-view-hosts-lob-softballs-at-wh-press-secretary-ask-just-two-questions-about-inflation-and-gas-prices/">Jean-Pierre</a> on the subject during Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, noting that such a transition was painful for Americans who could not afford a $60,000 electric car any more than they could $5-per-gallon gas — and asking how much pain Biden viewed as acceptable.
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DOOCY: &quot;A lot of people can&#39;t afford a $60,000 electric car, and they also are having a hard time affording gas right now. That sounds like a painful transition, so how much of that kind of pain is the president ok with?&quot;
KJP: &quot;That&#39;s apples and oranges. It&#39;s not the same.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PJTnX8Djn7">pic.twitter.com/PJTnX8Djn7</a>
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&#8220;The president yesterday was talking about this transition to greener energy someday,&#8221; Doocy began, adding, &#8220;A lot of people can&#8217;t afford a $60,000 electric car and they also are having a hard time affording gas right now. That sounds like a painful transition, so how much of that kind of pain is the president ok with?&#8221;
&#8220;No, that transition — we are in a transition to clean energy,&#8221; Jean-Pierre replied. &#8220;That is something that is important. It is going to create jobs when you think about electric vehicles. It is going to give — give families some tax credits, it&#8217;s gonna be really important to have &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Right now they can&#8217;t afford an electric car, the average price is $61,000,&#8221; Doocy pushed back.
&#8220;Well, we&#8217;re going to continue to move forward with what we have put for the bipartisan infrastructure —&#8221; Jean-Pierre tried again.
&#8220;Five dollar a gallon gas or a $61,000 electric car —&#8221; Doocy interrupted.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not — first of all — that&#8217;s apples and oranges, it&#8217;s not the same,&#8221; Jean-Pierre objected. &#8220;What we&#8217;re trying to do right now is to deal with an acute problem right now, which is why the president again asked for a 90-day suspension of the gas tax, the gas tax holiday. It is going to make a difference, Peter, we&#8217;re talking about $0.18 on the federal level, we&#8217;re talking about an average of $0.30 on the state level, and if the oil refinery does their job, if they do what we are asking them to do which is put their profits back in so that gas prices can go down, that&#8217;s almost a dollar per gallon. That matters.&#8221;
Critics of the move have argued that a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/democratic-senator-not-a-yes-right-now-on-bidens-proposed-gas-tax-holiday/">gas tax holiday</a> — especially if the federal government acts alone — will do little to ease the pain at the pump. If that tax holiday saves consumers $0.18 per gallon, that adds up to a savings of $2.70 for the average 15-gallon tank. At $5 per gallon, a 15-gallon fill-up costs $75 — meaning the consumer still pays $72.30 for a tank of gas. If gas goes up to $6 per gallon — $90 for a 15-gallon tank — the total savings would still be $2.70 and the net cost would be $87.30.

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Fox News White House correspondent <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/is-he-going-to-bring-the-key-players-doocy-asks-why-biden-is-hitting-the-beach-if-gun-violence-is-an-emergency/">Peter Doocy</a> confronted Press Secretary <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/does-biden-take-any-responsibility-peter-doocy-grills-karine-jean-pierre-on-inflation/">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> during Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, disputing President Joe Biden&#8217;s claim that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thanks-joe-republicans-blast-biden-over-record-high-inflation/">inflation</a> was worse everywhere outside the United States.
Doocy pressed <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jean-pierre-touts-bidens-decades-of-work-on-gun-violence-but-reporter-objects-isnt-that-more-of-an-indictment/">Jean-Pierre</a> on the president&#8217;s claim several times — noting that inflation rates were actually higher in several other countries — prompting Jean-Pierre to revert immediately to what appeared to be the White House&#8217;s proscribed talking point on the topic.
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DOOCY TIME: &quot;Why is [Biden] saying that inflation is worse everywhere but here?&quot;
KJP: &quot;B/c of what we have seen across the globe. First of all, inflation is a global challenge, as we have said. It is&#8211;it is&#8211;it is&#8211;it is caused by, clearly, the pandemic&#8230;and also&#8230;the war&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3UPQnVjYPL">pic.twitter.com/3UPQnVjYPL</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1537474638393098242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why is the president saying that — pardon — why is the president saying that inflation is worse everywhere but here?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;Because what we have seen across the globe,&#8221; Jean-Pierre began. &#8220;First of all, inflation is a global challenge, as we have said. It is — it is — it is — it is caused by, clearly, the pandemic, this once in a generation pandemic that we are coming out of. And  also most recently the war that — that Putin started in Ukraine that has caused inflation as we looked at food and as we looked at gas prices.&#8221;
&#8220;So if you look at globally, other countries, and if you look at where we are economically, when you think about the Group 7, the G-7, we are in a much stronger place than we are economically than the rest,&#8221; Jean-Pierre replied.
Doocy immediately pushed back, listing several countries that were facing higher inflation rates than the United States.
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Doocy: &quot;He says&#8230;inflation is worse everywhere but here. That&#39;s not true. U.S. has worse inflation than Germany, France, Japan, Canada, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia&#8230;Why is he saying that?&quot;
KJP: &quot;Well, I think what we are saying is&#8230;it is a global thing&#8230;everyone is feeling&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FW46GK1LH0">pic.twitter.com/FW46GK1LH0</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1537475044519161860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He says that inflation is worse everywhere but here. That&#8217;s not true,&#8221; Doocy objected. &#8220;U.S. has worse inflation than Germany, France, Japan, Canada, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia. So why is he saying that?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think what we are saying is that when you talk about inflation, it is a global thing,&#8221; Jean-Pierre made no effort to address Doocy&#8217;s rebuttal and instead simply repeated her initial statement. &#8220;And it is not just about the United States, this is something that everyone is feeling — because of coming out of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, because of the war that Russia has started in Ukraine.&#8221;
According to Pew Research, the United States <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/15/in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world-inflation-is-high-and-getting-higher/">ranks 19th</a> on a list of 36 nations in terms of the change in annual inflation rate between the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2022. Of the top five nations, Israel ranks highest followed by Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal — and all five have seen their annual inflation rate increase by a factor of at least ten between 2020 and 2022.

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