White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on November 13, 2024. | Source: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Getty
If there’s anyone I’m going to miss from the Biden administration, it’s White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, because, for four years, she has been unapologetic in letting the MAGA Klan know she is not here to suffer their caucasity-infused nonsense.
On Wednesday, Fox Business Network’s Edward Lawrence questioned Jean-Pierre about President Joe Biden’s largely obligatory meet-up with President-elect Donald Trump, asking if Biden had apologized for calling Trump a “threat to democracy” as if Trump isn’t demonstrably a threat to Democracy.
As usual, Jean-Pierre didn’t even flinch before keeping it real in response.
From HuffPost:
“The president is going to always feel obligated to be honest with the American people. What he says still stands,” Jean-Pierre said of Biden.
She added that it’s not just the president who has warned of Trump’s second term, it’s the president-elect’s former staffers, as well.
“You’ve heard that from the former chief of staff John Kelly and others,” she said.
“You’ve heard it directly from the president — president-elect, the former president about ‘enemy of the people.’ Very, very clear — very clear,” she added.
Jean-Pierre went on to emphasize the importance of listening to “the will of the American people” and recognizing that there was an election.
“And that’s what this president is doing: leading by example and putting — putting that aside and putting the American people first,” she said.
“But what he said still stands. And it’s not just him. I don’t — we should not just put this at the president. His own people said this. So, I want to be really, really clear about that and not forget the facts. There are facts here that we should certainly also lift up as you’re asking me these questions.”
Lawrence’s disingenuous question was equal parts delusional and hypocritical.
Let’s start with the delusion, and since I’m growing tired of sounding like a broken record on this, here’s what I’ve already written on Trump being a provable threat to democracy.
From Bossip:
First of all, let’s be clear on one thing: Biden, Harris, and everyone else who has called Trump a “threat to democracy” called him that because he literally tried to upend democracy after he lost his bid for reelection in 2020.
His big and baseless lie about election fraud costing him his second term — which he has repeated as recently as when he crashed and burned on the debate stage against Harris last week — caused 147 Republican legislators to vote to overturn a legal and fair election based on election fraud claims that Trump conjured out of thin air. Calling Trump a “threat to democracy” isn’t irresponsible “rhetoric” — it’s stating observable truth.
From HuffPost:
The idea that the election had been rigged — that voting machines had been programmed to abracadabra Trump votes into Biden votes; that dead people were being registered to vote blue in masses the size of zombie herds from “The Walking Dead” — was allowed to persevere despite the fact that it had no validity.
Dozens of judges across lower courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Court joined the former head of election cybersecurity, Trump’s own attorney general and the Department of Justice in saying clearly and unmistakably that there was no evidence of a rigged election.
Since the beginning of Trump’s first presidency — actually, since the start of his first campaign — he has been spreading the “fake news” that widespread voter fraud is real and that it threatens his chances of being elected even after he has managed to get himself elected. Meanwhile, virtually every study has shown that voter fraud in America is extremely rare. Yet Republican legislators across the country are proposing and passing voter suppression laws under the pretext of securing elections they haven’t proven need securing.
Whether Trump supporters want to admit it or not, Trump inspired an act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol that was specifically aimed at subverting the democratic process by preventing legislators from certifying legally cast votes, and it was done on behalf of his big, thoroughly-debunked lie, which he continued to repeat through his latest campaign. Again, that Trump is a threat to democracy is observable, not just a political talking point.
But let’s say none of that is true. Trump isn’t owed an apology for the use of hyperbolic, accusatory and incendiary language considering that is the only kind of language he has ever used when engaging with his political opponents.
During just one of his last campaign rallies, Trump called Harris “lazy as hell,” “slow,” a “low-IQ person,” “the worst,” and a “radical left lunatic.” Before that, he absurdly claimed that Harris and Biden prevented police officers from doing their job and suggested they warned police officers that if they arrested criminals they caught committing crimes, “You’re gonna lose your pension, you’re gonna lose your family, your house, your car.” Before that, he accused Biden and Harris of “killing Black and Hispanic heritage” as if he wasn’t the one spreading false and dangerous rumors about illegal immigrants stealing and eating people’s pets from the presidential debate stage. Before that, he called Harris “dumb”, “stupid,” “lyin’ Kamala,” and “mentally impaired.” These are just a few examples among many of Trump’s affinity for attacking people — politicians and civilians alike — in ways that were inflammatory and proved to put people in danger.
Calling Trump a threat to democracy is, at the very least, an attack that can be substantiated through facts witnessed in real-time.
Anyway, we’ll miss you, Karine Jean-Pierre. Thank you for remaining honest in a political world that has rejected truth.
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