Doocy Brings It on Hunter While Liberal Journalists Whine About COVID, January 6

Wednesday’s Psaki Show marked a contrast between the constructive and the absurd as Fox’s Peter Doocy engaged the White House press secretary on questions surrounding President Biden’s son Hunter and brother Jim and, as other reporters would as well, immigration. Others expressed dissatisfaction with COVID’s lack of restrictions and raised concerns regarding right-wing terroristism, and demanded more indictments on January 6.

Doocy started with the positive and led the way with Bidenphones, following in the steps of Obamaphones): “Our team in Texas is saying that you guys are starting to give smartphones to border crossers, hoping that they’ll use the phones to check in or to be tracked. I — which part of that is supposed to deter people from crossing illegally into the states?”

 

 

Psaki argued “you of all people” Should “recognize that we need to take steps to ensure that we know where individuals are and we can track…them” as one of the “alternatives to detention programs” with phones allowing for facial and voice recognition and GPS tracking.

Doocy was followed up “With the telephonic, though, any concern by folks around here that these migrants will take the phones and just toss them?”

When Psaki countered with a question as to whether he knows of “people throwing phones away,” Doocy hit back that he was merely asking a question.

After Psaki offered a similar answer about the phones “ensuring…individuals who irregularly migrate” are “monitored,” Doocy pivoted to Biden family corruption as FoxNews.com reported Wednesday that the now-President wrote college recommendation letters for the son of Hunter’s Chinese business partners.

Psaki deflected, citing how it happened in 2017 (click “expand”):

DOOCY: Okay. On another topic, was it common for President Biden to do favors for Hunter Biden’s international business partners like writing college recommendations for their kids?

PSAKI: I have — I’ve seen the report. No comments or confirmation have been made on the report regarding whether President Obama wrote college recommendations letters for individuals when he was private citizen.

DOOCY: I — A college recommendation letter, though, from, at the time, a former Vice President would be a big deal. Were we able to find out what the President may have received in exchange for this favor?

PSAKI: Again, I have no confirmation of any recommendation letter the President wrote when he was a private citizen — by the way, not serving in public office. That’s even in the report.

DOOCY: But he’s the President now, and you’re his spokesperson.

PSAKI: He was correct, but he wasn’t the President when this report was written.

On a second matter, Doocy wanted to know whether it was accurate that, as per emails (from Hunter’s laptop), Joe “was officemates with Hunter and his brother Jim here in D.C.” during Hunter and Jim’s business venture with a Chinese energy company.

Psaki argued three times for it wasn’t “accurate” and “they were not officemates” Doocy may not have known that Hunter sent an email asking the landlord for keys.

Going back to immigration, NPR’s Mara Liasson and ABC News Radio’s Karen Travers posed questions about how the administration will grapple with the expected tsuanmi of illegal immigrants upon the formal end of the pandemic rule Title 42. 

For Travers, she asked whether the message is still for illegal immigrants to “not come” to the U.S. even though they’ll no longer face risk of deportation.

Liasson’s Title 42 questions were followed by four fear-mongering COVID-19 questions from The New York Times’s Katie Rogers, including her first lamenting how the White House promotes its “stringent measures”Nevertheless, the president can remain anonymous in public.

Instead of acknowledging the science of lack of risk to most if they contract the virus, her last question pressed from the left on whether Biden not being masked sends the right message to Americans “as infection rates rise.”

Rogers might be as good or better than Andrew Feinberg’s zingers, freelance reporter “white supremacists and other domestic extremists”You can carry out “violence on American soil” in support of Russia and then the Huffington Post’s S.V. Dáte pleading for more people to be charged in relation to the January 6 riot (click “expand”):

FEINBERG: You talked about the increasing picture of Russia’s economy. Public reports have revealed over time that white supremacists, as well domestic extremists, have developed a fondness for Russia. Do you think Russia may try to incite domestic extremists and domestic terrorists on American soil as a retaliation for the Russian economic decline?

(….)

DÁTE: There was a recent report that the President had expressed some frustration that the former President had not been charged. The obstruction of an official proceeding is a charge that involves many, including the January 6th certificate. The former President did it openly, and so was his administration.  Why wouldn’t you charge him?  And why hasn’t the President come out and said that if that’s the case?

To see the relevant transcript from April 6’s briefing (including key follow-ups from Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann on Ukraine and union drives at Amazon), click here.

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