White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to admit that President Joe Biden had made any mistakes in the Afghanistan withdrawal, despite telling Americans we had to “learn from our mistakes” in a speech to the nation Tuesday afternoon.
The Pentagon’s spokesman on Tuesday acknowledged Americans are “stranded” in Afghanistan, contradicting the White House press secretary’s assertion on August 24 that “it’s irresponsible to say Americans are stranded. They are not.”
White House staff called a “lid” for the president’s activities for the day, just prior to the dawn of August 31 in Afghanistan, his scheduled withdrawal date.
The White House on Friday walked back President Joe Biden’s promise that the United States government would evacuate any American who wanted to get out of Afghanistan.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for President Joe Biden’s resignation in reaction to the disastrous failure to withdraw American forces out of Afghanistan.
The president said his military commanders told him that the mission to get Americans and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan by the deadline would succeed.
Reporter Jake Turx asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki what happened to the “swift and forceful response” that President Joe Biden had promised in response to any attack on the airport in Kabul, after Thursday’s terror attacks.
As more chaos unfolds in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden delayed speaking in front of a camera to the American people on the situation there, where thousands of Americans are being stranded. Other agencies canceled their briefings as well.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday was unable to give an exact time when the United States is expected to be fully evacuated from Afghanistan per the Taliban’s timetable of August 31.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) blasted the Biden White House on Tuesday for “letting the Taliban call the shots” and concluded that White House press secretary Jen Psaki is “either a liar or just as clueless as Biden” on the situation in Afghanistan as Americans remain stranded.
The White House on Monday said the U.S. military has “facilitated” the evacuation of about 48,000 people from Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover ten days ago.
President Joe Biden again tried to distance himself from the political fallout of the disaster in Afghanistan, disappearing into the White House.
Facebook has taken action against the so-called “disinformation dozen,” a set of accounts publicly identified by the Biden White House as responsible for the majority of alleged coronavirus “disinformation” on the platform.
President Joe Biden plans to spend Wednesday pivoting his priorities back to the coronavirus pandemic, even as thousands of Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan.
The White House has confirmed that Afghans are being prioritized for evacuation from Afghanistan along with American citizens.
The U.S. sent a notice to Americans trying to escape Afghanistan to go to the Kabul airport, but it could not guarantee their security there.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan dismissed the question as a “hypothetical.”
White House aides on Tuesday said they did not know when President Joe Biden would return to Washington, DC, after the president left Monday.
The White House revealed President Joe Biden has not spoken with world leaders since the Taliban took control of Kabul, the capitol city of Afghanistan.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki interrupted her vacation this week to address President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan disaster.
The New York Post cites several White House journalists who note the unusual practice of Biden’s press team to exclude many journalists for the sake of “spacing concerns” during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Joe Biden did not have an exit strategy,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said. “He had a date he wanted to be out by, which was September 11.”
Kash Patel noted how both President Joe Biden and White House press secretary Jen Psaki are on vacation “while Afghanistan is on fire.”
An email sent to Psaki by Breitbart News was returned with an auto-reply message noting that the White House press secretary is on vacation between August 15th through the 22nd — a full week.
President Joe Biden remained on vacation at Camp David in Maryland as U.S. diplomats scrambled Sunday to escape Kabul, Afghanistan, and the Taliban entered the capital for a takeover that Biden said last month was “highly unlikely.”
Breitbart News has repeatedly fact-checked versions of this claim and found it to be false.
The White House defended conditions at a migrant detention facility in Pecos, Texas, for unaccompanied minors on Tuesday, despite reported complaints.
Vogue magazine, which refused to profile First Lady (and former supermodel) Melania Trump throughout four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, published a lavish puff piece on President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, Monday.
The character wanders around the White House, the White House press room, West Wing offices, and the Executive Office building pretending to do things for the Biden White House team.
The White House called a lid on Monday morning at 11:27 a.m. as President Joe Biden spent a long four day weekend at his home in Delaware.
Psaki said that “interagency working groups” are developing a plan for international travel but did not address migrants coming across the Southern border.
The White House said Friday that officials were not concerned about the psychological effects of forcing children to wear masks in school to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The White House conceded Thursday that some Democrats wanted to defund the police, and defended their right to voice their views on the issue.
The White House dismissed claims made by Tara Reade, who accused President Joe Biden of unwanted touching, calling them “heavily litigated during the campaign” and stating Biden has “been clear and outspoken about the importance of women.”
Following an Iranian drone attack on an Israel-operated oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Oman that left two dead last week, Iranian advocacy group Iranian Americans for Liberty released a statement blasting the Biden administration’s “weak” response and calling on the president to “get tough.”
The White House dismissed Wednesday the idea of an independent investigation into women’s allegations against President Joe Biden of inappropriate touching or actions.
Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky again clarified comments she made to reporters on Tuesday, after admitting that the coronavirus vaccines were not preventing the spread of the Delta variant of the virus.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki specifically called out the state of Florida for contributing to the high rate of coronavirus cases nationwide.
Nearly 700 people are expected to mingle during the party, according to reports, including at least 200 staff and 475 invited guests, creating fears of a coronavirus “super-spreader” event on the island.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki withdrew from her public role after struggling to explain President Joe Biden’s new masking requirements set by federal health officials.
