‘Let’s Just Be Real’: Ex-White House Press Secretary Gets Called Out For Defending Biden’s ‘Weak and Feeble’ Performance
The Bulwark Podcast host Tim Miller tore into former president Joe Biden’s “feeble” performance in the White House, Monday, urging Biden’s former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to “just be real” and acknowledge it during an interview.
After Jean-Pierre boasted, “We did have legislative wins,” Miller responded, “Sure, but he didn’t talk about them that well, though.”
Jean-Pierre insisted, “First of all, he did talk about them, whether it broke through or not. He did.”
“He talked way less to the press than Donald Trump does. Way less,” said Miller as Biden’s former press secretary tried to talk over him. “He wasn’t out there at all. He wasn’t good off the cuff, he wasn’t doing press conferences, let’s just be real.”
The conversation continued:
Jean-Pierre: That’s not true. Tim, you’re conflating all of it.
Miller: I’m not
Jean-Pierre: No. First you’re telling me he didn’t talk well about it, then you’re telling me he didn’t talk at all.
Miller: He didn’t do either. He didn’t talk very often and when he did it wasn’t very good. He sounded very old and feeble.
Jean-Pierre: Maybe you weren’t paying attention to what we were doing at the White House.
Miller: I paid attention. I’m with you on the policies, I’m talking about his performance.
Jean-Pierre: The president spoke to the American people a couple times a week. He travelled and did domestic travel and talked directly to the American people.
CBS’s Tony Dokoupil and Gayle King were left stunned during their own interview with Jean-Pierre on Monday after the former White House press secretary defended Biden’s mental acuity.
After Jean-Pierre announced in June that she was leaving the Democratic Party, she received criticism from several former colleagues in the Biden administration.
“The real problem with Karine Jean-Pierre was that she was kinda dumb,” wrote former Biden policy adviser Tim Wu in a social media post. “No interest in understanding harder topics. Just gave random incoherent answers on policy.”
Watch above via The Bulwark Podcast.
