White House ‘Clean-up’ on Joe Biden’s Claim of Past ‘Border Visit’ Just Makes It so Much Worse – Opinion

We reported last night on President Joe Biden’s disaster of a “town hall” event that took place in Baltimore and was hosted by CNN anchor and noted Democrat apologist Anderson Cooper.

The town hall, which was “invitation-only“, was Biden’s third one on the network in a year’s time, and in addition to quite literally mockingFreedom, but one of his most eye-opening responses was when Cooper asked him if he intended to visit the southern border. For those who missed it, here was Biden’s answer:

“I’ve been there before and I haven’t – I mean, I know it well. It’s okay to go down. But the whole point of it is I haven’t had a whole hell of a lot of time to get down. I’ve been spending time going around looking at the $900 billion worth of damage done by – by hurricanes and floods and weather and traveling around the world. But, I plan on — now, my wife Jill has been down. She’s been on both sides of the river. She’s seen the circumstances there. She’s looked into those places.”

Biden’s claim that he has “been there before” came as a surprise to pretty much everyone, considering there was no record of him ever making a stop at the border.

Today at the White House press conference, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Jen Psaki (Biden press secretary) about whether Biden ever visited the border. Psaki’s first response was to note that he “drove through the border” one time in 2008 while on the campaign trail, as though that is considered “visiting” the border in their view. She compounded the ridiculous answer by then saying that “he does not need a visit to the border to know what a mess was left by the last administration.”

As you’ll see from the clip below, her spin just made it so much worse:

Doocy says: “I’d like to continue with something the president stated last night. Biden said he was at the border.

Psaki: Peter, you might have noticed that there has been some reporting that he drove through the border while he was campaigning in 2008″ pic.twitter.com/0pPtu2oneC

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 22, 2021

When Doocy again asked Psaki about the claim, her response was to deflect to “root causes”:

Doocy asked, “Does it count as a trip?” He responded, “I have been there before.” He said that he had driven by the scene for only a few moments. Is that a count?

Psaki: What is the root cause of this problem? Peter: “Where are these people from? I’m asking a question.” pic.twitter.com/njPq0CIP21

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 22, 2021

As for Biden’s claim about First Lady Jill Biden’s visit, CNN pseudo-fact checker Daniel Dale predictably tried to ride to the rescue on her “visit” as well as Biden’s by suggesting his comments “need context.” As it turns out, Jill Biden’s visit was in December 2019 during Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

Why is Biden lying about the border crossing? Because in making the “misleading” claim, he’s getting people to assume that he’s in touch and in tune with what’s happening and actively working to get the issue under control. Jen Psaki’s answers today where she doubled down on behalf of Biden make the White House seem even more out of touch, as a 2008 drive-by by Joe and a 2019 campaign pit stop by Jill do not constitute expertise and knowledge about Current crisisJoe Biden is directly to blame.

Worse, Kamala Harris is now the “climate czar” and has moved on to her new role of resolving the crisis. An even more out of touch (as if that was even humanly possible) “border czar” Kamala Harris, who at last check has apparently solved the border crisis and has now moved on to her “new role” of resolving the “climate crisis.”

We are truly a nation right now where the lights are on at the White House but nobody’s home. It’s really frightening to think about, but at least we can thank God we’re no longer subjected to mean tweets. There are silver linings.

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