You know a Democrat administration is in peril when the mainstream media no longer blindly supports it.
On multiple occasions, Biden and administrations officials have hid from reporters out of fear of revealing too much. In Biden’s case, the man can barely utter a sentence let alone field off-the-cuff questions from a pool of reporters looking for their next headline.
The contentious relationship with reporters came to a head on Tuesday during an Oval Office meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Even though United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on reporters from the U.K., Joe Biden refused to do the same for American reporters, ordering his handlers to remove them from the Oval Office.
Reporters leaving the Oval Office were visibly upset by Biden’s refusal to take questions and by press wranglers who shouted over the president when he seemed to be trying to speak.
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White House Correspondents Association President Steve Portnoy informed his colleagues that following the press event, the entire pool went to White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s office to “register a formal complaint that no American reporters were recognized for questions in the president’s Oval Office.”
IN THE PRESIDENT'S OVAL OFFICE:
Boris Johnson recognized two British reporters for questions.
Joe Biden then signaled it was time for the press to leave, without taking any questions from his own press corps.
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) September 21, 2021
The press pool was also upset that press wranglers shouted so loud, demanding that reporters leave, that no one could hear Biden’s attempted response to a question from a reporter about the border.
IN THE OVAL OFFICE… @POTUS Biden and British PM @BorisJohnson meet to discuss pandemic, trade and other issues. Johnson took 3 questions. White House aides shouted down U.S. attempts to ask questions. I asked Biden about southern border and we couldn’t decipher what he said. pic.twitter.com/A86kgdfsuc
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) September 21, 2021
“Psaki was unaware that the incident had occurred, and suggested that she was not in position to offer an immediate solution,” Portnoy wrote.
Biden has been noticeably silent for nearly a week as problems for his administration stack up.
The president still has not addressed the drone strike in Afghanistan that killed ten civilians including seven children and zero terrorists.
He also has not addressed the latest border crisis as over 15,000 Haitians traveled to a makeshift camp at a border bridge in Texas to enter the United States.
Author: Elizabeth Tierney
