{"id":1408320,"date":"2022-03-29T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408320"},"modified":"2022-03-29T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:00:14","slug":"joe-biden-white-house-refuse-comment-about-will-smith-violence-at-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-white-house-refuse-comment-about-will-smith-violence-at-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden, White House Refuse Comment About Will Smith Violence at the Oscars"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-white-house-refuse-comment-about-will-smith-violence-at-the-oscars%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=1408320&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House said Tuesday President Joe Biden did not have a response to the violence that occurred at the Oscars award ceremony on Sunday, after actor Will Smith punched comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any official comment from the White House on the altercation,\u201d White House communications director Kate Bedingfield told reporters on Tuesday during the daily press briefing, when asked about the televised moment that shocked the world.<\/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>Bedingfield said that Biden did not watch the Oscars and \u201cdidn\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any official comment from him or from the White House on this,\u201d she repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has a history of speaking passionately on violence and assault, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-awards-oscars-biden\/at-oscars-vp-joe-biden-and-lady-gaga-spotlight-sexual-assault-idUSKCN0W20CM\">appearing<\/a>\u00a0at the Oscars in 2016 with singer and actress Lady Gaga to condemn sexual assault.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe must and we can change the culture so that no abused woman or man \u2013 like the survivors you see here tonight \u2013 ever feel like they have to ask themselves, \u2018What did I do?\u2019 They did not do anything wrong,\u201d he told the audience of Hollywood\u2019s elite.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>But despite his anti-violent advocacy, even Biden fantasized about physically beating up former President Donald Trump in a 2018 speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked me if I\u2019d like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, \u2018If we were in high school, I\u2019d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Biden later apologized for his comment in an interview with former Obama staffers on the their Pod Save America podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden talks about his &#8220;fight&#8221; with Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8vnG38QciD\">pic.twitter.com\/8vnG38QciD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PodSaveAmerica\/status\/977301242463518722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI shouldn\u2019t have said what I said \u2026 because I don\u2019t want to get down in the mosh pit with this guy,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House said Tuesday President Joe Biden did not have a response to the violence that occurred at the Oscars award ceremony on Sunday, after actor Will Smith punched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-1408320","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\/1408320","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408320\/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=1408320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}