On Thursday afternoon, the great Steven Nelson of the New York Post put more meat on the bone regarding reports bumbling, fumbling, stumbling White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre barred national security advisor and spokesman John Kirby from speaking to reporters about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal because she didn’t want arguably the only adult in the Biden team from stealing her thunder.
Nelson has been one of only a few journalists (plus Axios) to actually report on this one-sided feud with Jean-Pierre repeatedly having been allegedly loathe to work with him.
Nelson explained, that not surprisingly, it had both “[j]ournalists and aides to President Biden…seething” and that it had real world implications as Jean-Pierre’s “spotlight-stealing forced the nation to wait an extra hour to learn details of the American hostages…
