Let’s talk about the Obama event, again. Tuesday’s event was to ‘celebrate’ the 16th anniversary of the costly rollout of Obamacare. There, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Biden smooched. She later took Obama’s hand and put it to her mouth—But wait, aren’t we in a pandemic? Well, Pelosi tested positive for COVID on Thursday. Yet, the White House claimed that they were not in ‘close contact’.
Of course, we have questions…
Thankfully, FXN journalist Peter Doocy was able to ask the biggest one—How the hell is kissing considered not ‘close contact’?
“How can you guys say that President Biden was not a close contact with speaker Pelosi when there’s video of the speaker kissing him?” Doocy asked.
“Their definition of it is 15 minutes of contact within a set period of time, within six feet,” Psaki responded, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition of “close contact.” “It did not meet that bar.”
A spokesperson for Pelosi announced Thursday that the San Francisco Democrat tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday after being spotted embracing Biden and kissing him on the cheek during an Affordable Care Act event in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday.
Psaki was widely mocked by conservatives on social media who slammed her for seemingly implying the 79-year-old Biden was not at risk to contract the coronavirus because he was not standing within six feet of Pelosi for 15 minutes.
“So basically Jen Psaki’s argument in this briefing is that if a person with COVID sneezed directly on Joe Biden, he wouldn’t be a ‘close contact’ because the sneeze lasted less than 15 minutes,” Heritage Foundation Communications Director John Cooper tweeted.
“Psaki defending this cites the CDC’s guidance of ‘15 minutes,’” GOP spokesperson Matt Whitlock tweeted. “Two highly vulnerable geriatrics can kiss each-other on the face and it’s not a ‘close contact’ but they’re still putting masks on children outside in New York?”
Watch
Doocy: "How can you guys say that President Biden was not a close contact with speaker Pelosi when there's video of the speaker kissing him?"
Psaki: The CDC's "definition of it is 15 minutes of contact within a set period of time, within six feet. It did not meet that bar." pic.twitter.com/T7U8kE5EoR
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 7, 2022
Psaki leaned on the CDC who conveniently changed the rules ahead of the event. You don’t have to take my word for it, either. Go look at their freaking guidelines. They changed the rules, yet again, on the 30th of March—Which happens to be the same day they opened the second booster shots for Congress members.
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