The Biden Administration is scrambling to cover for Joe Biden.
Watching Jen Psaki do some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to cover for every dumb thing he says is an absolute treat.
After Biden claimed that the 2022 mid-term elections could be altered, Psaki has been working overtime to try and clean up his mess.
Psaki is acting as Biden’s “interpreter” today.
She claimed on Twitter that Biden’s comments were taken out of context, and that he wasn’t casting doubt on the 2022 elections.
She then got so desperate that she went on Fox News to do the same.
He was explaining that the results would be illegitimate if states do what the former president asked them to do after the 2020 election: toss out ballots and overturn results after the fact. The Big Lie is putting our democracy at risk. We’re fighting to protect it.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) January 20, 2022
Psaki says Biden wasn’t casting doubt on the illegitimacy of the midterms elections – https://t.co/fBacaT69oz
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) January 20, 2022
The Washington Times has the story:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday insisted that President Biden was not casting doubts on the legitimacy of the 2022 midterms when he said the elections could “easily be illegitimate.”
“He absolutely is not predicting that the 2022 elections would be illegitimate,” Ms. Psaki said, adding the clarification that it would be illegitimate if states acted as former President Donald Trump demanded after the 2020 election.
“The point he was making was that the former president asked a number of states — seven or more in fact — to overturn the outcome of an election. Now obviously if there is an effort to do that, we’ve got to fight against that. That’s what our commitment is to doing,” she said on Fox News. “He was not making a prediction. He has confidence in the American people.”
Psaki tells Fox News that Biden doesn’t believe the 2022 elections will be illegitimate:
.@DanaPerino: "I'm curious if you'll continue to say the 2022 elections will be illegitimate?"
Psaki: "First I talked to the president a lot about this & he absolutely is not predicting that the 2022 elections would be illegitimate." pic.twitter.com/8qsCkisPW1
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 20, 2022
Here’s the thing though…
Biden flat out said that the elections could be illegitimate:
Psaki today: I talked to the Prez and he is not predicting that 2022 elections would be illegitimate
Biden yesterday: “I think it could easily be illegitimate” pic.twitter.com/5NngT2iQAT
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 20, 2022
Cleanup on aisle 46
Another cleanup of Biden's press conference statements from Psaki: https://t.co/UY7TOeAkV4
— Anders Hagstrom (@Hagstrom_Anders) January 20, 2022
On Fox, Psaki repeats the spin she tweeted earlier that Biden’s questioning the legitimacy of the 2022 elections was ‘actually about Trump and 2020.’
Just incredibly weak clean up.
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) January 20, 2022
Psaki today: I talked to the Prez and he is not predicting that 2022 elections would be illegitimate
Biden yesterday: “I think it could easily be illegitimate” pic.twitter.com/5NngT2iQAT
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 20, 2022
Hilarious that they sent Harris out to tell the morning shows "hell yeah, Biden meant it" while having Psaki go on Twitter to say "Biden didn't mean it."
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) January 20, 2022
Joe Biden was asked if the midterms would be fair and legitimate. He said "it depends." Psaki now tells we didn't hear what we heard. https://t.co/g0TWAWlRHE
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) January 20, 2022
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