{"id":1205713,"date":"2022-01-10T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205713"},"modified":"2022-01-10T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:04:26","slug":"white-house-refuses-to-criticize-sonia-sotomayor-coronavirus-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-refuses-to-criticize-sonia-sotomayor-coronavirus-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Refuses to Criticize Sonia Sotomayor Coronavirus Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-refuses-to-criticize-sonia-sotomayor-coronavirus-misinformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sonia-Sotomayor.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House on Monday refused to defend or criticize Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, after she spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/08\/sotomayors-false-claim-that-over-100000-children-are-serious-condition-with-covid\/\">falsely<\/a> claimed during oral arguments in the Supreme Court proceedings last week that 100,000 children were in the hospital because of the virus, \u201cmany of them on ventilators.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Only about 4,000 children are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/01\/07\/fact-check-sotomayor-claims-100000-children-in-serious-condition-on-ventilators\/\">currently<\/a> in the hospital from coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>But White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to comment on Sotomayor\u2019s obvious misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to speak to Supreme Court arguments or statements made in those arguments,\u201d Psaki told reporters during the daily briefing on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>When asked to comment by another reporter on Sotomayor\u2019s misinformed remark, Psaki again refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just not going to weigh in on a specific legal argument in the court,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration repeatedly condemns \u201cmisinformation\u201d on the virus, calling it a \u201cpublic health threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s immoral. I call on the purveyors of these lies and misinformation to stop it. Stop it now!\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-tells-unvaccinated-americans-be-concerned-about-omicron-variant-2021-12-21\/\">said<\/a> in a speech on December 21.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden officials typically are silent when Democrats spread factually inaccurate information.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/15\/joe-biden-spreads-coronavirus-misinformation-vaccinated-do-not-spread-the-disease\">claimed<\/a> in an interview in December that people who were vaccinated for the coronavirus could not spread the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow about you make sure you\u2019re vaccinated, so you do not spread the disease to anybody else? What about that? What\u2019s the big deal?\u201d He asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Monday refused to defend or criticize Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, after she spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. 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