White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has made a habit of lying about the US southern border, and a reporter in the briefing room finally called her out on it.
FOX News' Jackie Heinrich went after Jean-Pierre for lying about Republicans voting to cut funding to the Border Patrol. earned From “The Three Pinocchios” washington postAnd that is a clear mistake for anyone who understands that border security is important. of It's the latest problem for Republican politicians in the Trump era.
Heinrich also confronted Jean-Pierre for lying about Texas law enforcement officers interfering with Border Patrol operations and preventing them from rescuing three migrants from drowning. (Actually, the migrants had already drowned an hour earlier.)
As Breitbart News reported on Tuesday:
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told an unusually deep lie in an audio-only press conference Tuesday, saying the number of police officers killed from the U.S. (Texas) border on January 6, 2021 was zero. He lied about everything, even people. .
Jean-Pierre falsely claimed that the Texas Department of Military Affairs had obstructed U.S. Border Patrol agents who were trying to save an immigrant family from drowning. The story had already been denied by the U.S. Department of Justice and the governor of Texas.
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White House press secretaries are known for stretching the truth, but Mr. Jean-Pierre's recent performance has been unusually dishonest.
Ms. Jean-Pierre tried to claim that she had not lied about the Republican voting record or about the drowning immigrants. After all, there were likely still migrants in the river when Border Patrol agents arrived, and others as well, she said.
The White House is trying to pose as a defender of the Border Patrol, lying about Border Patrol agents “whipping” Haitian immigrants and implying they are violent racists. The White House has never apologized for defaming the agent.
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