Reporters aren’t buying the excuses offered by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for President Joe Biden’s recent gaffes.
On Wednesday, Mr. Biden visited the Veterans War Memorial in Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of the sites commemorating his uncle, World War II veteran Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr.
Biden then spoke about his uncle, whose body was never recovered in a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean.he Said:
Ambrose Finnegan — we called him “Uncle Bossy” — he was shot down. He was in the Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force. He flew a single-engine plane and flew reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He volunteered because no one else was available. He was shot down in an area of New Guinea that was heavily populated by cannibals at the time, and his body was never recovered. But when I went there, the government went back and inspected and found parts of the plane and so on.
But most of Biden’s story is not true.
The plane Biden’s uncle was on on May 14, 1944 was not shot down, and he was not the victim of cannibalism.according to to the pentagon, both of the plane’s engines failed and it crash-landed in the ocean. Only one of the four people on the plane survived. The remaining three people were never recovered.
On Thursday, reporters asked Jean-Pierre if he had a “cannibal tab” in his press binder.
At first, she acted as if she didn’t know what the reporters were asking, saying, “There’s no tab called ‘cannibalism.’ What are you talking about?” — before dealing with the incident.
But then she refused to directly address the fact that Biden’s statement was untrue. She softened the shock by saying Biden was “incredibly proud” of his uncle and that the memorial visit was “incredibly emotional and important to him.” Ta. And, of course, she implicitly blamed Donald Trump. Referring to comments allegedly made by the former president About veterans who died in the war.
“As he said repeatedly, America’s veterans cannot be ‘bad guys’ or ‘losers,’ and he wanted to make that clear,” Jean-Pierre said.
“By embellishing the story?” the reporter retorted.
“Look, there’s nothing more than what I just explained,” Jean-Pierre replied, never answering the question.
And so ended the seven-minute press conference aboard Air Force One.
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