On 9/16/2022, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby was left stunned when a reporter asked if his frequent briefing room appearances meant that he was the “second press secretary” and undermining Karine Jean-Pierre, the first woman of color to be chief White House spokesperson. The head-turning inquiry came from Cameroonian journalist Simon Ateba, of Today News Africa — who was selected by Jean-Pierre to ask Kirby a question, despite previously sparring with Kirby on a similar topic. “Sometimes you act like the second press secretary,” Ateba told Kirby. Privately other members of the White House press corps also had this observation. Ateba asked Kirby to “tell us exactly what your job is” and said he wanted to know, “What type of questions should we ask you?”
“The reason I’m asking is because almost everywhere I go, I have black people telling me that the reason you’re at the White House is to undermine the first female black press secretary,” added Ateba. Kirby, the former Pentagon press secretary, was widely seen as a contender to replace Jen Psaki as press secretary earlier this year — and after Jean-Pierre got the job in May, Kirby quickly joined the White House and began to appear alongside her in the briefing room. “If anyone gets any kind of idea in their head that I’m taking away from Karine or her work that’s really regrettable,” Kirby responded to Ateba. “And — and I’m very sorry that that’s any impression that anybody would have. I am simply working at the National Security Council on national security communications. And with her good graces, I’m able to come up here every now and then to talk to you about simply national security issues. That’s my portfolio. That’s where I’m limited. That’s where I’ll stay. And I do it at her — at her invitation and with her approval to come up here. So I — that’s — that’s the focus. I’m happy to answer national security questions and — and that’s about it.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Thanks, John. We’re going to do, like, one last question just to get us back on track.
Jean-Pierre, 48, is the first non-white person to hold the post. The press secretary’s decision to call on Ateba to ask Kirby a question instantly triggered palace intrigue, as the reporter had jousted with Jean-Pierre’s potential rival in the past. Jean-Pierre’s selection to replace Psaki shocked many journalists who saw either Kirby or White House communications director Kate Bedingfield as stronger candidates. Jean-Pierre has had embarrassing stumbles — including recently referring to the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline as the “Nordstrom pipeline,” using the name of the department store.
Democrat DC Mayor Bowser complains “we’re not a border town” even though dc is “sanctuary city”.
MSNBC says migrants “are actually thanking governor Ron DeSantis for having brought them to Martha’s Vineyard” . Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
On 9/16/2022, at a briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the DHS fake addresses, ” there’s an attorney in Boston claiming to represent some of the migrants on a voluntary basis, saying that DHS has assigned some of these migrants fake addresses and that that’s complicated their cases and their ability to get hearings. Do you know if that’s accurate? And —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Can you say that la- — D- — you said DHS?
Reporter: Yes.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: And say that — and then can you continue from there?
Reporter: That DHS assigned some of these migrants fake addresses and that that’s complicated their cases and their ability to get hearings and so forth. Do you know if that’s accurate? And —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: This is the first time I’m hearing of this, so I would have to reach out to my colleagues over at DHS to see if that is actually true.
Media reported that according to Rachel Self, who has been assisting the immigrants after they arrived in Martha’s Vineyard on September 15 2022, agents for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “listed falsified addresses” on paperwork given to the immigrants before their flights there, “Agents apparently chose random homeless shelters all across the country from Washington to Florida to list the migrants’ mailing addresses, even when told by the migrants that they had no address in the U.S.” Self told reporters.
On 9/15/2022, President Joe Biden’s climate czar John Kerry jetted to Africa to lecture them on being “as green as possible,” during an interview with Reuters In Dakar, Senegal.
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Spokesman second press secretary? or “undermine” the first black female secretary? DHS chose migrant fake addresses?