The Biden White House snuck in a press briefing Friday afternoon amid the House speaker vote hullabaloo and it had the predictable tone of senioritis with networks reaching deep into their bench for correspondents and producers willing to listen to Karine Jean-Pierre stammer and stumble her way through process questions about Biden’s final days in office, Biden blocking the sale of U.S. Steel, and the Islamic terror attack in New Orleans.
Thankfully, Fox’s Lucas Tomlinson came ready with a probing question, but Jean-Pierre chose to ignore it:
KJP ducked this question from Fox’s @LucasFoxNews Tomlinson as she left the Briefing Room: “Does the President still consider white supremacy the greatest terrorist threat to the United States?” pic.twitter.com/fDdWGB0n4x
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 3, 2025
The comments in question Tomlinson was referring? Here was Biden on 1, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma: “According to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda, white supremacists.”
Biden also made the claim on October 21, 2021 at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington D.C.: “According to the United States intelligence community, domestic terrorism from white supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland.”
He also said this on May 13, 2021 at Howard University’s commencement: “The most dangerous threat to our homeland is white supremacy.” […]
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