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https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/18/jen-psaki-shuts-down-reporters-who-were-silent-under-trump-but-are-now-demanding-biden-press-conferences.htmlPosted on Thu, Nov 18th, 2021 by Jason Easley
Jen Psaki Shuts Down Reporters Who Were Silent Under Trump, But Are Now Demanding Biden Press
Jen Psaki set the record straight with White House reporters who were quiet as Trump killed the press briefing but are now demanding Biden press conferences.
Link to tweet
Psaki said to those who were complaining about the lack of a formal press conference after the North American Leaders Summit, In the last three weeks, the President has hosted two press conferences, three if you talk about announcing the signing of the bipartisan infrastructure bill where he took a number of questions and today he is taking questions from reporters for the 10th time this month.
Donald Trump went almost an entire year without holding a formal press briefing. Trump had one press during his whole first year in office. Trumps final press secretary did not hold a single press briefing. Trump would often lie to reporters by calling an event a press conference and then not taking any questions.
The press outrage is about the White House pool being deprived of a spotlight that they can use to justify their existence.
Jen Psaki set the record straight. Biden is talking to reporters and taking their questions at a clip of nearly every other day.
Where were these concerns when Trump was in office?
Thats right. They couldnt raise them with Trumps final press secretary because she never held a briefing.
Golden Raisin
(4,612 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,285 posts)calimary
(81,437 posts)She is such an amazing and impressive woman. Im continually proud of her. Shes just so great! Smart, quick-witted, assertive, gutsy, and Knows Her Stuff! Not a bimbo like the last blonde female in there - trump Goldilocks Number Whatever-the-fuck.
Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)Cha
(297,516 posts)question everything
(47,521 posts)Except she has never held a press conference and no one ever asked her any questions..
DeeNice
(575 posts)at the gaslighting out of TFG and his entire administration. I'd say it's like they are completely unaware of the cameras and microphones, but it's worse. They know every thing they say is being recorded, but they also know their followers don't care. Anything that comes off as a negative is "fake news" to them.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)to find tee shirts and sweatshirts to celebrate her brilliance.
LiberalFighter
(51,036 posts)StClone
(11,686 posts)Many colors, styles, mottos, have been available for months
aggiesal
(8,922 posts)Always prepared.
She's that good!
DFW
(54,436 posts)Since she knows that anything they ask will be based on what their masters told them to ask the night before, probably twenty minutes of watching Fox Noise will reveal 95% of what their kind will be asking her about the next day. The radical right is nothing if not predictable. The amazing thing is, that after all this time, they STILL act as if they dont realize it.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)"Why isn't Biden holding pressers more often? Also, follow-up question: Why is Biden holding SO MANY pressers?"
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George II
(67,782 posts)The last such press conference was by Obama.
The press is really spiraling down and becoming collectively supermarket rag caliber.
Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)Rebl2
(13,541 posts)had reminded them that tfg seldom did press conferences and if he did take reporters questions he was usually nasty to them and treated them with disrespect.
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"Jen was mean to us!" And an indifferent nation yawns.
Upthevibe
(8,068 posts)dchill
(38,517 posts)ShazzieB
(16,485 posts)jaxexpat
(6,844 posts)Intelligent, Erudite, Discourse. Do not be contentious with Psaki unless you're prepared to change your mind (or soil yourself).
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)and is spending these final 2 months of the year studying these masterful examples.
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)I hope they are working on someone spectacular and that person is following Jen around taking copious notes. I don't think that I have seen a more competent Press Secretary in the last 35+ years that I've been paying attention to politics.