{"id":4403,"date":"2024-02-13T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/white-house-says-it-was-bidens-idea-to-hold-press-conference-after-release-of-special-counsels-report\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:25:41","slug":"white-house-says-it-was-bidens-idea-to-hold-press-conference-after-release-of-special-counsels-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/white-house-says-it-was-bidens-idea-to-hold-press-conference-after-release-of-special-counsels-report\/","title":{"rendered":"White House says it was Biden’s idea to hold press conference after release of special counsel’s report"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed Tuesday that it was President Biden\u2019s<\/a> idea to hold what has since become a widely criticized press conference following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on his handling of classified documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre, speaking at the White House press briefing, said “it was the president\u2019s idea” to appear last Thursday in front of the media to defend himself from the findings in Hur\u2019s report, which described the 81-year-old as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the barrage of questions, Biden at one point raised his voice at a reporter and later made a gaffe by referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi as the “president of Mexico.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He wanted to, it was his idea,” Jean-Pierre said when asked Tuesday about how the unexpected event came to be. She then deflected when a reporter asked “did anyone advise him against it?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

BIDEN BLISTERED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA AFTER \u2018DISASTER\u2019 PRESS CONFERENCE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I’m not going to get into private conversations that the president has. The president is the president of the United States,” Jean-Pierre shot back. “If he says he wants to speak to directly to the American people, he’s going to do that.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also said Tuesday that the White House counsel is looking into the public release of the transcripts of Biden\u2019s conversations with Hur.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

BIDEN LASHES OUT AT REPORTERS ASKING ABOUT AGE CONCERNS AFTER SPECIAL COUNSEL REPORT<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the press conference last week, Biden appeared visibly angered when responding to claims in Hur’s report that Biden did not remember when his son Beau died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hur, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland<\/a> to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents, concluded he would not bring charges against him in part because a jury would find him to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,” despite the acknowledgment that the documents were “willfully” obtained by Biden both as vice president and as a senator. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The press conference has since been panned by the media, with outlets such as Axios calling it a “vivid display of an elderly, irritable man struggling on a public stage.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Jeffrey Clark and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed Tuesday that it was President Biden\u2019s idea to hold what has since become a widely criticized press conference following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on his handling of classified documents.\u00a0 Jean-Pierre, speaking at the White House press briefing, said “it was the president\u2019s idea” to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}