Karine is losing control.
According to a report from The Daily Wire, White House Stress Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got into it with the White House Press Corp during Monday’s briefing —specifically Today News Africa correspondent Simon Ateba.
And on a day when the cast of Ted Lasso was visiting, too —such a shame.
From The Daily Wire:
Jean-Pierre stepped to the briefing room podium followed by the cast of the Apple TV series “Ted Lasso,” who was visiting the White House to meet with President Joe Biden about mental health awareness. Soon after taking the stage, Jean-Pierre was pelted with accusations of discrimination from Today News Africa correspondent Simon Ateba.
Jean-Pierre tried to hush Ateba. “We’re not doing this,” she told him repeatedly.
Ateba pressed forward: “You’ve been discriminating against me. You’ve been discriminating against some people in the briefing room. And I’m saying that this is the U.S. This is not China, this is not Russia.”
“What you are doing, you are making a mockery of the First Amendment,” Ateba continued over protests from others in the briefing room. “It’s been seven months. You have not called on me. I’m saying that’s not right.”
White House staff as well as other reporters told Ateba repeatedly to be quiet, accusing him of being disrespectful of the briefing room and to the other reporters.
“Sir, let it go,” someone said.
“Decorum, please!” another yelled.
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“You can’t keep discriminating against some people in the briefing room because you don’t like them, you don’t like their questions,” Ateba said. “That’s not right. This is not China, this is not Russia. This is the United States.”
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