White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was not at all pleased when pressured by a reporter to answer for President Bidens cheat sheet controversy.
The Blaze News reports that the issue began when a photographer captured an image of the President at a press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. In the picture, Biden appeared to be holding a card with the names of reporters he intended to call on.
The Blaze News reports that it also seems that the President had advanced knowledge of the questions that the pre-selected reporters would ask. If that is true, then many are concerned about what appear to be staged press conferences.
The image showed that the card said that Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian would be the first person called on. She was the first person called on. While the question that she asked was not word-for-word identical to what was on the card, it was very similar to what the President had written on his card.
Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked a question of Jean-Pierre about this controversy, which was seemingly dismissed out of hand. The Press Secretary insisted that questions had not been pre-vetted by the White House and that they had anticipated what the reporter was likely to ask.
Jean-Pierre said: We do not have specific questions in advance, and that the reporter was selected because many Koreans live in the Los Angeles area.
However, the Fox reporter disagreed with this explanation, and he continued to press the issue. He asked: Is it your contention that the question on the so-called cheat sheet was not the question that was asked at the press conference?
Jean-Pierre refused to answer the question and insisted that the Fox reporter had interrupted other reporters in the room. It actually appeared that Jean-Pierre was ready to call upon another reporter when the Fox reporter jumped in with the follow-up question.
The White House might not have appreciated the question, but it was a legitimate question to ask regardless.
Jean-Pierre answered a few more questions but appeared to ignore the fact that she had said she would come back to the Fox reporter. She did not ultimately do so, and this caused a lot of frustration in the room.
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