New White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has been a train-wreck in her first few weeks on the job, and the Biden regime is now trying to bail her out by manipulating the questions she fields.
Psaki has struggled to handle even the softball questions lobbed at her by a press corps that battered Trump press secretaries Kayleigh McEnany and Sarah Sanders on a daily basis.
Psaki’s petty thin-skinned sniping over memes mocking her for the oft-invoked “circle back” as a dodge shows that she may already be in over her head but not to worry, her bosses are working to rig the press conferences in order to give her a helping hand.
A bombshell story by the far-left Daily Beast reveals that Biden staffers have sought to pre-screen questions that reporters are expected to ask, a story that in a country with a functional media would be a major scandal.
The story cites “three sources with knowledge of the matter” as well as “written communications” showing that the Biden regime has sought to receive questions in advance from reporters.
Via The Daily Beast, “White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance”:
According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, as well as written communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the new president’s communications staff have already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when called upon during briefings.
The requests prompted concerns among the White House press corps, whose members, like many reporters, are sensitive to the perception that they are coordinating with political communications staffers.
One reporter raised the issue during an informal White House Correspondents Association Zoom call last Friday. According to multiple sources, leaders at the meeting advised print reporters to push back against requests by the White House press team to learn of questions in advance, or simply to not respond to the Biden team’s inquiries.
“While it’s a relief to see briefings return, particularly with a commitment to factual information, the press can’t really do its job in the briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions they want,” one White House correspondent said. “That’s not really a free press at all.”
“It pissed off enough reporters for people to flag it for the [WHCA] for them to deal with it,” another knowledgeable source said.
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If the story is accurate, it is another example of how Biden is ruling more like the leader of a third world country than a traditional American president and the militarized District Of Columbia has become the seat of a banana republic.
Seeking questions in advance isn’t exactly new territory for Democrats. In 2016 they were busted when CNN’s Donna Brazile was caught leaking questions from a town hall to the Hillary Clinton campaign when she was in a dog fight with Bernie Sanders for the party’s nomination.
The choice of Psaki as press secretary has already been a debacle for the Biden regime and a story like this isn’t going to make her job any easier.
