With no White House press briefing since October 30, Thursday’s briefing was the first since Tuesday’s general election and, with the massive red wave yielding a Trump presidency and possibly a Republican Congress, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced a room of reporters (ostensibly most being supporters) full of questions about the administration’s reaction to this thorough rebuke.
Starting at the end of the briefing, Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich patiently sat and heard Jean-Pierre’s only definitive excuse be that pandemic fallout was why Democrats were shellacked, so she had enough.
After a follow-up to a question from The Washington Post’s Matt Viser about any chance President Biden would pardon son Hunter, Heinrich read a viral tweet from Congressman Richie Torres (D-NY) before wondering: “[I]s the administration, campaign, the…
