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White House spokespeople Karine Jean-Pierre and Andrew Bates violated the Hatch Act when they had been warned against using the word 'MAGA' to describe certain Republicans, a government watchdog agency said on Friday. The independent Office of Special Counsel said the two took actions 'contrary' to official guidance on the law when they slammed 'MAGA' Republicans' budget plan this year. In their letter, first reported by NBC News, the office notes the violations came days after Jean-Pierre was warned she had violated the law intended to prevent federal employees from using their offices to influence elections....

The Biden Administration is a total joke. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday actually took time to promote “transgender day of remembrance” – a completely made up thing in order to somehow make transgender people martyrs and heroes. They are not. “Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender Americans who were killed this year. Year after year, we see that these victims are disproportionately black women and women of color,” Karine Jean-Pierre said. More than 60% of transgender murder victims are sex workers. What about the more than 70,000 Americans who die of fentanyl...

Last week, we covered how Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), a lesser known member of the Squad, is facing a primary challenger for her response to Hamas' attack on Israel earlier this month. As has been the case with other Squad members, her response to the terrorist attack certainly leaves something to be desired. Her response to the situation hasn't gotten much better, especially since she partook in a Squad press conference last Friday to demand a "ceasefire." Lee's response may not just affect her own race, but next year's Pennsylvania Senate race where vulnerable Democratic incumbent Bob Casey, Jr. is...

Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary, claimed that "Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks." (October 24, 2023 / JNS) About three quarters of the way into the White House press briefing on Monday, a reporter asked what is U.S. President Joe Biden’s “level of concern right now about the potential rise of antisemitism in light of everything that’s going on in Israel?” Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, began with “a couple of things.” “Look, we have not seen any credible threats. I know there’s been always questions about credible...

(CNN) — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sunday abruptly ended a news conference with President Joe Biden in Hanoi, Vietnam, at one point taking a microphone and announcing the event had concluded even as the president was still answering questions from reporters in the room. As the president was responding to shouted questions from the press, Jean-Pierre took to the microphone to announce, “Thank you everybody – this ends the press conference.” Biden remained on stage briefly following her announcement, responding to one additional question, though his full answer was inaudible. Biden had, at that point, taken the...

WASHINGTON – So that’s why she had no time for our questions! White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took a break from her duties as President Biden’s top spokesman to model three outfits for a fawning profile in Vogue’s latest issue — drawing sharp criticism from reporters in the capital. ... “It’s sad that a magazine that purports to be practicing journalism is profiling a press secretary that’s gone out of her way to deliberately silence members of the press corps,” said one veteran White House reporter. “We shouldn’t be rewarding those who actively obfuscate facts and seek to undermine...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has separated from Suzanne Malveaux, her partner of more than 10 years. In a new interview with Vogue published on 7 September, Jean-Pierre, 49, revealed that the two have shared custody of their nine-year-old daughter, Soleil. “I’m a single mom who is co-parenting this amazing kid,” she told Vogue. “Our number-one priority is her privacy and to make sure we create an environment that’s nurturing.” Jean-Pierre and Malveaux first met at the Democratic National Convention in 2012. Her former partner served as a White House correspondent for CNN for more than 10 years, before...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are "praying" for the victims of the Maui wildfires a day after the president declined to comment on the tragedy. During Monday's press briefing, Jean-Pierre said the president and his wife were sending prayers to the victims of the Maui wildfires that leveled the town of Lahaina. "As the president said last week that he and the first lady are praying for families who are grieving their loved ones and for everyone who has suffered devastating losses of land and property as a result of the...

Below is my column in The Messenger on what I called Biden’s “break-the-glass” option after the disaster in Delaware. After the column ran, Fox News asked White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre about the possibility of a pardon. Jean-Pierre cut him off and responded unequivocally “no.” I hope that proves to be true but it would have been more assuring to come from someone who did not clearly misrepresent the President’s earlier denial just a day earlier and change his long-standing position. The President previously denied a series of facts that have been proven, including the fact that his son did...

Faced with imminent contempt of Congress charges, Mark Zuckerberg has finally agreed to cooperate with the GOP probe on Big Tech-government collusion. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) called off a markup session to formally file contempt of Congress charges against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, citing Facebook’s “newfound commitment” to the Judiciary Committee investigation into censorship collusion. However, Jordan hinted at the extent of Facebook’s incestuous relationship with government entities for the purpose of censoring Americans. In a related bombshell revelation, Jordan unleashed the “Facebook Files” on Thursday detailing how the Biden White House coerced Facebook to assault Americans’...

During Friday's White House briefing, Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if the cocaine found in the White House last weekend belonged to any member of the Biden family. Jean-Pierre didn't say "no," but did provide this attempted alibi: "The Biden family was not here. They were not here. They were at Camp David. They were not here Friday. They were not here Saturday. They were not here Sunday. They were not even here Monday. They came back on Tuesday. So to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible." Here's how that unfolded: KJP says that "irresponsible reporting" is alleging...

President Joe Biden laughed and again ignored questions about the cocaine found at the White House - as the administration tried to distance the first family and staff from the shocking discovery by suggesting it was a visitor. Biden sat and watched reporters as they tried and failed to get his response to the drug scandal while he was in the Oval Office with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Wednesday. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre implied in her daily briefing that a member of the public left the Schedule A substance in a 'heavily-traveled area' of the West Wing -...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) quietly announced the release of additional records regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “In accordance with President Biden’s memorandum of June 30, 2023 the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) posted all documents with newly released information subject to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992,” the National Archives said in a press release. “On December 15, 2022, President Biden directed agencies to jointly review remaining redactions in records, disclosing all information except when the strongest possible reasons counsel otherwise,” the press release continued. “NARA worked in concert...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre threatened to abruptly end Monday’s press briefing after Today News Africa White House correspondent Simon Ateba interrupted her. Ateba once again lamented over Jean-Pierre refusing to call on him for the past nine months, right after she publicly condemned the harassment of journalists. “You’ve been discriminating against me for the past nine months,” Ateba said. “Stop,” one reporter said. “How is she discriminating?” “She called on you. She just gave you a few questions. Please, allow me to do my job and ask my question,” he replied. Jean-Pierre called on another reporter, but Ateba...

Karine Jean-Pierre violated a law designed to limit how officials engage in elections when she referred to "MAGA Republicans" ahead of the midterms, the agency said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated a law intended to prevent federal employees from using their offices to influence elections when she repeatedly referred to “mega MAGA Republicans” in the run-up to the 2022 midterms, a government watchdog agency said. In a letter first shared with NBC News, the Office of Special Counsel determined that Jean-Pierre's choice of words in referring to Republican candidates violated the Hatch Act. “Because Ms. Jean‐Pierre made the...

During an appearance at the 34th annual GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested that the “LGBTQ+ community” holds collective ownership of children suffering from gender dysphoria. GLAAD is an acronym for Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, an American non-governmental media monitoring organization. Jean-Pierre, who identifies as “queer,” declared these children are “our kids” and “belong to all of us” and slammed what she called “anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.” Speaking with the website Jezebel at the event on Saturday, Jean-Pierre rallied fellow travelers to “call out” Republican legislation for the sake of so-called “trans kids.”...

Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday continued gaslighting the American people by claiming Joe Biden has taken the border crisis “very seriously” since day one. Title 42, a Trump-era program forcing migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico is expiring next week. Illegal immigration is already out of control thanks to Joe Biden. More than 6 million illegal aliens have crossed over the US border since Joe Biden was installed in January 2021. KJP told reporters on Thursday that Joe Biden takes the border crisis seriously even though 700,000 to one million illegals have assembled at the border ready to surge across...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was accused of spewing “blatant lies” on Tuesday after she alleged House Republicans are “fighting to put fentanyl on the street.” The Biden administration spokeswoman made the head-scratching remark during the White House press briefing as she commented on the spending cuts in the GOP’s debt ceiling proposal, which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) unveiled last week. “It’s clear that the speaker’s bill breaks House Republicans’ commitment to America,” Jean-Pierre claimed. “In the run-up to the 2022 election, House Republicans promised to put cops on the beat. Instead, they are fighting to put fentanyl...

Earlier today, in our post on Justin Jones using the Ralph Yarl shooting to racebait on MSNBC, we included this tweet wondering if someone could ask Jones to name the victims of the Covenant shooting, the same Covenant shooting that Jones spearheaded a raucous protest over in the name of caring about gun violence victims but with the actual purpose of getting a national media platform: Can someone confront this grifter to name the six Christians that were slaughtered? — Poliwatch (@poliwatching) April 19, 2023 Justin Jones is praying that no one actually asks him about that, because he’ll come...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is getting scorn and backlash for gaslighting the American people. Since three children and three adults were massacred at the Christian school in Nashville. The gaslighting and twisted responses from the White House have been disgraceful and divisive.