On 7/21/2022, during press conference, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked transparency as well as where and when Joe Biden got it. A reporter asked, “Let me follow on Dr. O’Connor. Neither of you has seen the President today. Neither of you is treating the President. The question is: When will Dr. O’Connor come out? Because to just put out a statement and shield him from questions would be the least transparency of any White House in 50 years on a presidential illness.”
Jean-Pierre: Wow, I wholeheartedly disagree on your last statement. Wholeheartedly disagree on your last statement. So, we are doing this very differently — very differently than, I would argue, than the last administration. And I am happy to have that conversation with you. Number one, we did not see the President because we are following … I think — I believe, we believe — getting direct information, pretty — pretty much detailed information from this letter that we, in a transparent way, shared with all of you on how he was doing, and we have committed to do that every day.
Reporter: Okay. And could we get the President’s physician here so that we can not play the game of telephone?
Jean-Pierre: I don’t think this is a game of telephone.
On 7/18/2022, during White House Press Conference, White House chief economist Jared Bernstein got flamed in the press briefing room for blaming Putin for high gas prices while simultaneously giving Biden credit for when gas prices dip. “Aren’t you having it both ways, Jared? Because when the gas prices go up, it’s got nothing to do with the president. When we see some decline, you want him to get the credit,” Newsmax reporter James Rosen said. “Uh, uh, uh look, I think that there’s no both way thinking here at all,” Bernstein said as he nervously swayed back and forth. Rosen pushed back on Bernstein. “So when they rose, it was Putin’s fault. When they’re coming down, he [Biden] gets the credit,” Rosen said. “Yeah, I very much disagree with that framing, I think what’s happening here is a president who is working tirelessly to address … the budgetary impacts of these elevated prices. And we’re showing you here today some real results, partially — that partially derived from concrete efforts he’s taken,” Bernstein said glancing down at his notes as he struggled to defend Joe Biden.
Bernstein also claimed they were “careful” when wrongly claiming inflation was “transitory,” during the White House press briefing. Reporter asked, “I’m sure we all remember, a year ago, other colleagues of yours stood here and said inflation was transitory and was not going to last, and it was certainly not going to go up to where we are now. Do you think it’s possible in a couple of months you might regret standing here and saying we’re not about to be in a recession?”
MR. BERNSTEIN: Well, I want to be very clear what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that based on — based on consumer spending, based on payroll employment, based on where the unemployment rate is, I think we can confidently say that these numbers that we’re posting are very much inconsistent with a recessionary call, given where we are right now. I think that is the most accurate way to assess the answer to that question. When it comes to transitory, I think the answer there is that we were careful, when we were talking about that, to consistently reference the forecasts that were out there, the view on inflation’s trajectory by not only pretty much every forecaster we could find, but of course, the Federal Reserve as well.
Reporter: Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of President Biden insisting that high prices and inflation, in the President’s words, were “expected to be temporary.” A lot of my colleagues have asked similar questions, but I’m wondering how much faith can the American public put in future White House assessments about the economy, about inflation after they saw that inflation number increase month after month, and before the Russian … ?
MR. BERNSTEIN: … I tried to answer as fulsomely as I could, some of that — part of that question earlier. But let me ask you to focus on what we’re trying to talk about today, which is something that is happening in the here and now
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