The ‘circle back’ queen of dodge, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, was shut down by Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy after the reporter grew sick of her refusing to answer his simple question. During last Thursday’s press conference Doocy attempted to get a straight answer from Pelosi about the Biden-border crisis and how it’s impacted virus infection rates. “Covid is Covid”, the reporter explained and in response, Psaki ended the conversation.
It was clear from the very beginning that Psaki was no prepared to take any hardball question. As Doocy told Psaki that illegals see Biden as ‘The Migrant President’, and asked the press sec if she thinks that’s a compliment.
It’s not us, it’s them: Psaki first tried to scrape the issue off on Texas Governor Abbott, ” Well, I think there’s a lot of confusion about what’s happening at the border as it relates to people coming across and what happens when they come across. And I know Governor Abbott down in Texas has — has expressed some of his concerns and many of those have not been based in fact. So let me go through a few of those cause I know we’re interested in facts around here. One, Governor Abbott has referred to what is happening at the border as open borders, as us having an open borders policy. That is absolutely incorrect. The border is not open.”
Doocy finally interjected and clarified his question once again, calling Psaki out of her blame-game doge, “But not asking about Governor Abbott, asking about President Biden in charge of the federal government. Why are the feds relying on NGOs to administer the tests? We talked to people at the border who say that migrants are tested if they show symptoms. That seems like a loophole,” Doocy said.
A rattled Psaki stuttered to respond. Saying, “That’s — that’s not an accurate depiction. There’s an important role that NGOs, that local mayors, that local officials play in — in working together. This is a proposal that was worked with DHS, with FEMA, and others to help address and ensure that people are tested and Governor Abbott, I raised that simply because he had raised a concern about that and I wanted to be clear that we’ve put forward a proposal. So, I think the question is why is he standing in the way of local communities getting in the way of testing, isolation, and quarantining efforts?”
Doocy must have felt his time ending so he cracked back with once more zingger “So I’m curious why is it that it’s enforced for people flying in from other countries but not a requirement by the federal government to test or to prove a negative test anywhere along the border except for the port of entry,” added Doocy.
That last bit chapped the press sec. Without an answer, she cut the conversation and moved on to other topics. She was clearly not prepared for the fed-up reporter’s response.
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