Things are bad for Joe Biden.
His press secretary can’t keep up with what he says, let alone other members of his cabinet.
Now Peter Doocey just caught the WH press secretary in one massive lie about the inflation crisis.
Poor Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP). If she wasn’t such a rabid leftist activist you could almost feel sorry for her.
She is clearly in way over her head.
And like he did with Jen “circle back” Psaki, Fox News’ Peter Doocey isn’t going to let KJP forget it.
While most of the White House press corps may be giving KJP a pass, Doocey seems resolute to try and make her (they?) answer the tough questions.
But that may be harder than even Peter Doocey thought, because as it turns out, KJP can’t even answer the easy questions.
Just recently, Doocey asked the White House press secretary about Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s admission that she was wrong about inflation.
A fairly simple question one would think. After all, Yellen was very clear. She surprisingly admitted she had been wrong.
Yellen told CNN anchor and Democrat mouthpiece Wolf Blitzer what almost all Americans have known for months: The Biden administration’s claim that inflation would be temporary was horribly wrong.
“I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” Yellen told Blitzer. “As I mentioned, there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that I didn’t — at the time — didn’t fully understand, but we recognize that now.”
So there you have it. All KJP needed to do was say basically the same thing.
Well, we should have known better.
Doocey asked her, “When are you guys going to admit that you were wrong about inflation? The treasury secretary says that she was wrong, so why doesn’t anybody here at the White House?”
KJP responded by trying to absolve the Biden administration of any responsibility for all the ongoing economic woes, including record-high gas and food prices, the supply chain problems and the worsening inflation crisis.
Instead, KJP blamed “inflationary pressures which couldn’t have been foreseen,” Russia and Putin, and of course COVID.
And then she went on to say that no economic problems really exist.
Doocey followed up, “Just that I understand: the treasury secretary says that she was wrong, but the White House was not wrong about inflation?”
KJP clearly had no interest in answering the question. “Those are your words, not my words,” she said, before again saying the Biden administration had no responsibility for the economic woes that really don’t exist anyway.
“We have achieved an historic recovery through an extraordinarily unprecedented economic moment. The president has consistently noted that the primary drivers of inflation are the pandemic and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine,” Jean-Pierre said. “The twists and turns of both these monumental events have affected energy prices and also food prices that we have seen these past several months.”
“This is Putin’s price hike, which the president refers to, and that is what Secretary Yellen was referring to if you — if you read the entire transcript. And that’s what I’m trying to say to you.”
Unfortunately for the Biden White House, Americans aren’t buying what Biden and KJP are selling.
They know inflation and gas prices were a problem before the Ukraine war and know that it was Biden’s COVID policies that made inflation worse, not COVID itself.
Now the question is what will the American people do about it?
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.