In the first White House press briefing since the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump, reporters from across the spectrum surprisingly took the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre to task for failing to state whether President Biden believes he too has to lower the proverbial temperature of our body politic. Along with Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich and Edward Lawrence, they also had cover from ABC, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal.
As usual, the AP led off with Zeke Miller asking Jean-Pierre in straightforward fashion if Biden “regret[s] anything that he has said in the course of this campaign about his Republican rival or anybody else in the political space” and, if not, was his call Sunday to soften the rhetoric merely “a call for other people to make changes”.
Jean-Pierre predictably meandered and sputtered her…
