{"id":1382869,"date":"2022-03-15T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382869"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:50:50","slug":"jen-psaki-floats-bizarre-joke-theory-that-russia-meant-to-sanction-president-bidens-deceased-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-floats-bizarre-joke-theory-that-russia-meant-to-sanction-president-bidens-deceased-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Psaki Floats Bizarre Joke Theory That Russia Meant To Sanction President Biden\u2019s Deceased Father"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fjen-psaki-floats-bizarre-joke-theory-that-russia-meant-to-sanction-president-bidens-deceased-father%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=1382869&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1385490684.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki bizarrely suggested on Tuesday that Russia might have intended to sanction President Joe Biden\u2019s deceased father rather than the president himself.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki fielded a question on the issue \u2014 following a new round of sanctions from Russia against a number of American political officials \u2014 during the press briefing from CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CBS News&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weijia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@weijia<\/a> asks White House Pres. Secretary Jen Psaki about new Russian sanctions on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden is a junior, so they may have sanctioned his dad. May he rest in peace.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iAN5o3ce8x\">pic.twitter.com\/iAN5o3ce8x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1503789360042418177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSanctions were imposed today by Russia, against yourself, President Biden, other top U.S. officials,\u201d Jiang began. \u201cDo you have a response to that? How will it impact any of you, if at all?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would first note that\u00a0President Biden is a junior, so they may have sanctioned his dad, may he rest in peace,\u201d Psaki joked. \u201cThe second piece I would say is that, it won\u2019t surprise any of you that none of us are planning tourist trips to Russia, none of us have bank accounts that we won\u2019t be able to access, so we will forge ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Financial Times Moscow Bureau Chief Max Seddon tweeted a list of the American officials who were subject to Russia\u2019s latest sanctions \u2014 imposed in retaliation for crippling sanctions against the financial and energy sectors designed to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for his ongoing invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia has sanctioned Joe Biden and a range of other top US officials.<\/p>\n<p>The main impact of this is they can now make corny jokes on cable news about how they won&#8217;t be able to access their Russian bank accounts or go on vacation in Siberia, I guess <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZQWA0Mhg4R\">pic.twitter.com\/ZQWA0Mhg4R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 max seddon (@maxseddon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxseddon\/status\/1503744554444505093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The full list of sanctioned American officials includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Joseph Robinette Biden<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of State Antony John Blinken<\/li>\n<li>Defense Secretary Lloyd James Austin III<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Alexander Milley<\/li>\n<li>National Security Adviser Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan<\/li>\n<li>Central Intelligence Agency Directer William Joseph Burns<\/li>\n<li>White House Press Secretary Jennifer Rene Psaki<\/li>\n<li>International Economics Adviser Daleep Singh<\/li>\n<li>International Development Administrator Samantha Jane Power<\/li>\n<li>Robert Hunter Biden<\/li>\n<li>Former Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton<\/li>\n<li>Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale \u201cWally\u201d Adeyemo<\/li>\n<li>United States Export-Import Bank Chair Reta Jo Lewis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-want-to-thank-the-russian-academy-hillary-clinton-responds-to-news-shes-been-sanctioned-by-russia\">responded<\/a> to the sanctions with a joke, tweeting, \u201cI want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia also imposed sanctions on a number of Canadian political officials \u2014 up to and including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau \u2014 within hours of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s address before Canada\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/please-close-the-sky-zelensky-asks-justin-trudeau-to-imagine-someone-taking-down-your-canadian-flags-in-montreal\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cJustin, can you imagine you and your children hearing all these severe explosions, the bombing of the airport, the bombing of the Ottawa airport?\u201d Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ukraine-zelenskyy-addresses-canada-parliament-no-fly-zone\">said<\/a>, speaking directly to Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. \u201cCruise missiles are falling down and your children are asking you \u2018What happened?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDear Justin \u2026 can you imagine every day you receive memorandums about the number of casualties including women and children? You heard about the bombings. Currently, we have 97 children that died during this war,\u201d Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/598282-zelensky-urges-canadian-parliament-to-support-no-fly-zone-over-ukraine\">said<\/a>. \u201cImagine someone taking down your Canadian flags in Montreal and other Canadian cities. I know that you all support Ukraine. We\u2019ve been friends with you, Justin, but also I would like you to understand and I would like you to feel this, what we feel every day. We want to live and we want to be victorious.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zelensky is expected to address the United States Congress on Wednesday. \u201cInvoking Winston Churchill and Hamlet last week, he asked the British House of Commons whether Ukraine is \u2018to be or not to be,\u2019\u201d The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-business-nato-congress-348b29a5b19e87cb277a8b353b93f7ed\">reported<\/a>. \u201cOn Tuesday, he appealed to \u2018Dear Justin\u2019 as he addressed the Canadian Parliament and Prime Minister Trudeau.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki bizarrely suggested on Tuesday that Russia might have intended to sanction President Joe Biden\u2019s deceased father rather than the president himself.Psaki fielded a question<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}