According to an Axios report, former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki was caught lying about one of the most despicable moments of Joe Biden’s presidency.
In her new book Say More, Psaki claims Biden didn’t repeatedly look at his watch during the ceremony for soldiers killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
“[T]he president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car,” Psaki claims in the book, contradicting first-hand accounts and photos.
From Axios:
Psaki’s new account is at odds with fact-checks at the time, news agencies’ photos from the ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, and on-the-record statements from Gold Star families who were there.
The Associated Press photographer on the tarmac snapped two photos of Biden looking at his watch twice and 10 minutes apart, as fact-checkers at USA Today and Snopes noted soon afterward.
Psaki also mistakenly cited a passage from The Washington Post to bolster her account.
The sentences she quoted were from USA Today’s fact-check article — not the Post.
That article noted Biden looked at his watch at the end of the dignified transfer of the troops’ bodies but also concluded that “photos and video show [Biden] also checked his watch during the ceremony.”
Psaki initially declined to comment, but after this story was published, she said that the “detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook.”
“The story on Afghanistan is really about the importance of delivering feedback even when it is difficult told through my own experience of telling President Biden that his own story of loss was not well received by the families who were grieving their sons and daughters,” she added.
More over at Axios:
Jen Psaki claims in her new book that Biden never looked at his watch during the ceremony for soldiers killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — contradicting news photos and firsthand accounts of Gold Star families. https://t.co/RpbkUuUPrt
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