Upon departing from her role as White House press secretary for President Joe Biden, Jen Psaki joined NBC News and made a solemn commitment to assume the role of an unbiased journalist and commentator.
“I am not going on television to be a mouthpiece,” she told The New York Times, adding “debunking things, calling out BS.”
However, she made it clear to the Times that in her new position, she would refrain from launching unwarranted attacks on Joe Biden. On Sunday, we learned what Psaki considers to be an “unwarranted attack”: essentially anything that portrays Biden as the deteriorated, cognitively impaired individual he has become.
During her appearance on “Meet the Press,” Psaki expressed frustration with the way the Thursday special counsel report had been covered, stating that people in the White House were exasperated by the missed opportunity to report on the negative aspects of Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the nomination, as reported by Fox News.
To clarify the report she is referring to, in case your memory is as unreliable as Biden’s, it was announced on Thursday that special counsel Robert Hur recommended against charging Biden for knowingly retaining classified documents from his time as vice president, partly due to his diminished mental capacity.
Hur’s report stated that “at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Hur’s report read.
Please bear in mind that this individual is seeking re-election for another four-year term as the leader of the free world. As highlighted by Kristen Welker, the host of “Meet the Press,” in an NBC News transcript, this marks the second consecutive year in which Biden has chosen not to participate in a pre-Super Bowl interview. It was customary for the occupant of the White House to engage in such interviews prior to the big game.
BREAKING: Jen Psaki just blasted Donald Trump’s remarks endangering NATO and blasted the media for their refusal to cover Trump’s treasonous rhetoric. Retweet to ensure the whole country sees. pic.twitter.com/tKYM6z8kyF
— Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) February 11, 2024
