Karine Jean-Pierre Gives Word-Salad Answer Invoking Nazis When Asked If Biden Condemns Israel Protestors
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave a word-salad response to Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy on Monday after he questioned whether President Joe Biden considers “anti-Israel protesters in this country” to be “extremists.”
“Does President Biden think the anti-Israel protesters in this country are extremists?” Doocy asked.
Jean-Pierre replied:
What I can say is what we’ve been very clear about this. When it comes to anti-Semitism, there is no place. We have to make sure that we speak against it very loud and be uh, and be very clear about that. Remember, what the president decided– when the president decided to run for president, is what he saw in Charlottesville in 2017. He saw neo-Nazis marching down the streets of Charlottesville with vile, anti-Semitic, just hatred, and he was very clear then and he’s very clear now. He’s taken actions against this over the past two years and he’s continued to be clear, there is no place, no place for this type of vile and despite— despite— this kind of rhetoric.
Doocy replied by suggesting that when the Biden administration talks about extremists, “it is usually about MAGA extremists,” before asking, “So what about these protesters who are making Jewish students feel unsafe on college campuses? Are they extremists?”
“I’ve been very clear. We are calling out any form of hate. Any form of hate. It is not acceptable, it should not be acceptable here, and we are going to continue to call that out,” declared Jean-Pierre. “And let me be very clear, this is a president that has continued to have that fight in his office, in this administration, you know, when he repealed Trump’s Muslim ban on his very first day in office. That is something this president did. He also established an inter-policy committee to counter Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and related forms of bias and discrimination. We’ve taken this very, very seriously, from the president all the way down.”
Watch above via the White House.
