On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stonewalled reporters asking about the classified documents found in an old office of President Joe Biden, from when he was Vice President.
When reporter Ed O’Keefe pressed for details, Jean-Pierre replied, “Ed, we don’t need to have this. We work very well together. We don’t need to have this kind of confrontation.”
“It is literally under review right now. As I am talking to you it is under review, so I am not going to get beyond the process. I am not going to get beyond what the president said,” she added.
This isn't through journalism, this is a continuation of angertainment. Karine Jean-Pierre answered this answer as fully as she was able to given her legal obligations. The ongoing harassment by Ed O'Keefe was just performance art. pic.twitter.com/69EZiiESrG
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) January 11, 2023
Don’t need this kind of “confrontation”? Really? A reporter asks for details on a MASSIVE scandal regarding the president mishandling sensitive documents and that is considered confrontation?
The documents were found by Biden’s personal attorneys in the Penn Biden Center, just days before midterm elections in November. Yet the White House kept it under wraps, and we did not learn about it until earlier this week.
Once lawyers realized that they were sifting through a box containing sensitive documents, they stopped digging and alerted the Department of Justice. So although we definitely know that there are roughly ten documents that were mishandled, there could be many more.
Of course Biden is playing dumb (or maybe he isn’t playing….) and declared on Tuesday that he is “surprised” to hear about the existence of the documents, noting that he doesn’t know what they are.
“He has said he doesn’t know what is in them,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “So, there’s no way for me to talk about the documents if he has said he doesn’t know what’s in them.”
Reporter: “He had a closet with classified information in it that they found. How did it get there?"
Karine Jean-Pierre: “[Biden] was surprised that the records were there.”
Reporter: “But they were there."
Jean-Pierre: “He was surprised that the records were there.” pic.twitter.com/cB8Ib5c7vA
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 11, 2023
She also refused to answer questions being asked about WHY the lawyers were going though boxes of papers in Biden’s office:
Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to explain why the lawyers who found the classified documents were rifling through Biden’s closets in the first place.
“Were they looking for something specific?” pic.twitter.com/7UwIn1MxVy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 11, 2023
And why the White House did not “inform the American people when these documents were discovered” rather than waiting weeks for the information to come out.
A reporter asked, “Did it have anything to do with the fact that the election was just a few days away?”
"Why didn't [Biden] or someone in the White House inform the American people when these documents were discovered on December 2nd? Did it have anything to do with the fact that the election was just a few days away?"
Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to answer. pic.twitter.com/SiozeUpJ2w
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 11, 2023
Jean-Pierre argued that the White House is being transparent in the matter.
“We released information that was very transparent,” she said, “I know you all are going to have a lot of questions, I get that and I understand that, but I’m not going to go beyond the process.”
