{"id":1436049,"date":"2022-04-13T17:44:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436049"},"modified":"2022-04-13T17:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:44:56","slug":"jen-psaki-explains-away-biden-walkbacks-says-hes-keeping-his-promise-to-shoot-from-the-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-explains-away-biden-walkbacks-says-hes-keeping-his-promise-to-shoot-from-the-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Psaki Explains Away Biden Walkbacks, Says He\u2019s Keeping His Promise To \u2018Shoot From The Shoulder\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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-explains-away-biden-walkbacks-says-hes-keeping-his-promise-to-shoot-from-the-shoulder%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=1436049&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\/04\/GettyImages-1239962582.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 explained away several recent instances when President Joe Biden\u2019s off-the-cuff comments required clean-up efforts from others in the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki said during Wednesday\u2019s press briefing that Biden was simply <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/doddering-quasi-senile-president-desantis-denounces-biden-for-gaffes-requiring-walkbacks\/\">living up to his campaign promise<\/a> to \u201cshoot from the shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A reporter asks if the fact that the White House has to continually walk-back and contextualize Biden&#8217;s comments sends &#8220;a signal to the world that there kind of is an asterisk next to anything the president says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jen Psaki says that Biden is just &#8220;calling it like he sees it.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FcDcxTWOQ9\">pic.twitter.com\/FcDcxTWOQ9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1514336702663467011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJen, three times now the president has made comments about the war that the White House or he himself subsequently said did not reflect U.S. policy or a legal determination when he said Putin is a war criminal, when he said that Putin cannot remain in power, and of course, his comment about this being genocide in Ukraine,\u201d the reporter explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes this not send a signal to the world that there kind of is an asterisk next to anything that the president says?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, when the president ran, he promised the American people he would \u2018shoot from the shoulder,\u2019 is his phrase that he often uses, and tell it to them straight,\u201d Psaki replied. \u201cAnd his comments yesterday \u2014 not once but twice \u2014 and on war crimes, are an exact reflection of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody is confused about the atrocities that we\u2019re seeing on the ground, the horrors of what we\u2019re seeing on the ground, and different leaders around the world describe it in different ways,\u201d Psaki continued. \u201cBut there is \u2014 what is unquestionable is what we\u2019re seeing is horrific, the targeting of civilians, of hospitals, of \u2014 of even kids \u2014 and the president was calling it like he sees it, and that\u2019s what he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s recent remarks \u2014 particularly his claim that Putin \u201ccannot remain in power\u201d \u2014 raised immediate questions as to whether or not the president was advocating regime change in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>His claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin was guilty of \u201cwar crimes\u201d in Ukraine led to more questions regarding what the Biden administration was prepared to do in order to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>But in addition to critics in the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/none-of-the-three-occurred-biden-denies-making-foreign-policy-gaffes-that-white-house-walked-back\/\">Biden\u2019s comments<\/a> have provoked other foreign leaders to weigh in. French President Emmanuel Macron chastised Biden for calling Putin a \u201cbutcher,\u201d suggesting that his words could cause Putin to escalate rather than negotiate going forward.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/we-should-not-escalate-french-president-complains-after-biden-calls-putin-a-butcher\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>French President Emmanuel Macron lamented President Joe Biden\u2019s choice of words during an interview, arguing that it could be escalatory to call Russian President Vladimir Putin out directly over multiple reports of war crimes in Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reporting site Visegrad 24 tweeted video of Macron along with the caption, \u201cMacron is criticizing Biden for calling Putin \u2018a butcher.\u2019 The French president says it\u2019s not constructive. \u2018I would not use that kind of language. If a ceasefire is to be brokered, we must not escalate \u2014 neither through words nor actions.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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