One of the week's biggest stories was the White House visitor logs, which revealed a Parkinson's specialist visiting the White House.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke complete and utter lies from the White House briefing podium on this matter, and now the White House is in cover mode.
Talking Points…
- Jean-Pierre misleads the American people from White House briefing room
- White House goes into cleanup mode
- Analysis
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been forced into spin mode after getting caught telling the media a blatant lie. The amusing aspect of this is that she pushed back considerably against reporter Ed O'Keefe when he went after Jean-Pierre during the regular daily briefing.
After the O'Keefe incident, AP's Seung Min Kim asked Jean-Pierre:
"Can you say whether that one meeting [between Cannard and O'Connor] was related to care for the president himself?"
Jean-Pierre then responded:
"I can say that it was not."
That statement was a lie.
Within 24 hours, the White House was forced to have KJP clean up her mess when it was later revealed that the doctor in question, neurologist Dr. Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson's specialist, had, in fact, met with Biden during his physical (at the very least). KJP tried to wiggle her way out of this mess by blaming the reporter for not giving her a date, which was utterly ridiculous.
Jean-Pierre, in an effort to clean up her statement, said:
"Because the date was not mentioned in the question, I want to be clear that the Jan. 17 meeting between [presidential physician] Dr. [Kevin] O'Connor and Dr. Cannard was for the president's physical.
"It was one of the three times the president has seen Dr. Cannard, each time for his physical. The findings from each exam have been released to the public."
This is far from the first time that Jean-Pierre has lied to the American people and media, and it surely will not be her last. It was only because the media caught her in real time that she decided to clean up this particular statement. The good news is that the media has finally had enough and is now openly calling her out for her lies.
