{"id":15534,"date":"2024-02-14T00:46:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/white-house-says-it-was-bidens-idea-to-hold-press-conference-after-release-of-special-counsels-report\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T00:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:24","slug":"white-house-says-it-was-bidens-idea-to-hold-press-conference-after-release-of-special-counsels-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/white-house-says-it-was-bidens-idea-to-hold-press-conference-after-release-of-special-counsels-report\/","title":{"rendered":"White House says it was Biden\u2019s idea to hold press conference after release of special counsel\u2019s report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed Tuesday that it was President Biden\u2019s idea to hold what has since become a widely criticized press conference following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on his handling of classified documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Jean-Pierre, speaking at the White House press briefing, said \u2018it was the president\u2019s idea\u2019 to appear last Thursday in front of the media to defend himself from the findings in Hur\u2019s report, which described the 81-year-old as a \u2018sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the barrage of questions, Biden at one point raised his voice at a reporter and later made a gaffe by referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi as the \u2018president of Mexico.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He wanted to, it was his idea,\u2019 Jean-Pierre said when asked Tuesday about how the unexpected event came to be. She then deflected when a reporter asked \u2018did anyone advise him against it?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m not going to get into private conversations that the president has. The president is the president of the United States,\u2019 Jean-Pierre shot back. \u2018If he says he wants to speak to directly to the American people, he\u2019s going to do that.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She also said Tuesday that the White House counsel is looking into the public release of the transcripts of Biden\u2019s conversations with Hur.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the press conference last week, Biden appeared visibly angered when responding to claims in Hur\u2019s report that Biden did not remember when his son Beau died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hur, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Biden\u2019s handling of classified documents, concluded he would not bring charges against him in part because a jury would find him to be a \u2018sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,\u2019 despite the acknowledgment that the documents were \u2018willfully\u2019 obtained by Biden both as vice president and as a senator. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The press conference has since been panned by the media, with outlets such as Axios calling it a \u2018vivid display of an elderly, irritable man struggling on a public stage.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Jeffrey Clark and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed Tuesday that it was President Biden\u2019s idea to hold what has since become a widely criticized press conference following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on his handling of classified documents.\u00a0 Jean-Pierre, speaking at the White House press briefing, said \u2018it was the president\u2019s idea\u2019 to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}