(Carmine Sabia) Outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Pskai gave the game away when she spoke directly about the plan to keep Joe Biden from not looking ridiculous in front of reporters.
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by Carmine Sabia, May 9th, 2021
During an interview with David Axelrod that was published by CNN on Thursday, Psaki admitted that the White House Communications staff has advised Biden to duck some questions from the media, Fox News reported.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted in a CNN podcast published Thursday that President Joe Biden taking impromptu questions from reporters “is not something we recommend.”
Psaki made the admission while being interviewed by CNN Senior Political Commentator David Axelrod on his podcast “The Axe Files,” and claimed that she, at times, even tells Biden to not take questions from reporters.
The two began discussing the subject when Axelrod asked Psaki about a particular instance when Biden inadvertently ran into CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins at the White House, who proceeded to ask the president if a minimum wage increase to $15 would be included in the coronavirus relief package that was signed into law in March.
Axelrod stated that Biden gave the honest answer that he didn’t think the increase would be included in the bill, but him telling that to the reporter must have given Psaki a lot of heartburn and made her ask herself why Biden would be allowed to roll around in the hallways doing impromptu interviews. He then asked Psaki how she managed that.
“That is not something we recommend. In fact, a lot of times we say ‘don’t take questions,’” she said. “But he’s going to do what he wants to do because he’s the president of the United States.”
Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said she was stunned that Psaki was so open about it.
“I took my conversations with the president and my advice and consultation to him as sacrosanct,” she said to Fox News. “I take her point that you always advise a president on the climate of the news and the news cycle but I think broadcasting to the American public the press strategy, you can run into problems and kind of create a news cycle of its own like this comment did.”
“He would take questions whether you wanted him to or not,” she said. “I think he enjoyed the banter and back-and-forth with the press.” So, of course, there were times where I said, ‘You know, maybe don’t take questions today’ but I almost think on those days he enjoyed taking questions the most.”
“It’s not that she advises him not to take questions because I certainly did with President Trump, but it’s more that she broadcast her strategy, that her private conversations with the president,” she said.
She said that it appeared to her that Biden likes to take questions but that Psaki and the staff keep him from doing it.
“I don’t think it’s President Biden himself backing away from the questions,” she said. “I really think that- and Jen Psaki said this herself- there’s a mentality of controlling the back-and-forth, making sure he’s not in those freewheeling, jousting dynamics with the press and I think that that’s pretty clear. That’s the strategy of the press’s job but to be honest, I think President Biden- he seems to kind of relish and enjoy the moments.”
During the same interview Psaki revealed that she plans to leave her position as White House Press Secretary by the end of the year.
“I think it’s going to be time for somebody else to have this job, in a year from now or about a year from now,” Psaki said.
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